| E-Mail from CMU |
[11 Jun 2008|02:05pm] |
I just got this from the CMU alumni office:Recently, you should have received a letter outlining many of the exciting accomplishments achieved this spring by the Greek community at Carnegie Mellon. This letter also notified you that your annual contribution to Carnegie Mellon may now be designated to any fraternity or sorority in good standing.
A contribution made through the university is tax-deductible, will directly benefit the designated organization, and will help boost the university's alumni participation rate which, as you probably know, impacts rankings and the value of the Carnegie Mellon degree.
To make your contribution now, go to http://www.cmu.edu/giving/give.shtml?AID=0000138278&PCH=637, and from the pull-down "Designation" menu select "Other" and then type Alpha Epsilon Pi in the "Comments" box.
Financial support of Alpha Epsilon Pi through Carnegie Mellon's Annual Fund not only enables current student members to continue initiatives that make them leaders in the campus community, but will also carry on the traditions you knew as a member of the Greek community at Carnegie Mellon. Contributions from you and your fellow members will reside in a special fund created especially for Alpha Epsilon Pi, separate from operating funds, which will be used to pay for scholarships, facility enhancements, leadership initiatives and general member development opportunities.
Thank you for your consideration of this request and best wishes for a relaxing summer! Does anyone fully understand this? What exactly is this special fund? If i give this way is it really the same as giving directly to the chapter?
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| Booth pics |
[21 Apr 2008|01:31pm] |
Some brothers screw on the final "newspaper" panel
Soviet side of the booth with scary Communist propaganda guy
Inside booth, countdown timer indicates how long until the next group can go play the 3-man co-op Lunar Lander game.
From outside, looking through the window at the Lunar Lander game (hella glare)
SigEp won with "Titanic"
KDR got second place with "Golden Spike"
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| Carnival 2008 |
[20 Apr 2008|10:09pm] |
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AEPi won 3rd place in Booth this weekend.
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| Some things never change... |
[08 Nov 2007|02:19pm] |
Google Maps Street View
We still have the house on the corner, SAE still has the lions, and people still sit on that wall. I half-expected to see Dan Goldstein sitting there, since it seemed like he was always out there. Some of my fondest memories are sitting on that wall, talking to Dan and Handy, or just watching everyone.
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| Carnival 2007: 2nd place Booth, Chairman's Choice Buggy! |
[23 Apr 2007|09:37am] |
Rather than just posting this in my personal blog, I figured I'd update here.
This past weekend was Carnival. AEPi had a great Carnival, taking 2nd place in booth with Pinball. Most of us were just hoping we'd get 3rd, as we felt we were neck and neck with KDR's human body booth. Taking 2nd place (over Phi Kap's Cuckoo Clock) was definitely a pleasant surprise. SigEp took first with an awesome old school Nintendo booth. Our booth had a lot of games on the inside (Plinko, a Labyrinth maze game, and a non-working Lights Out game) and the exterior was a gigantic pinball machine with the CMU campus as the playing field, including the UC, Purnell, Wean, CFA, Hamerschlag, and even incorporating the fence, the "walking to the sky" sculpture (if you haven't been back recently, you don't know what that is, sorry), the library, the clock near the fence, and even Pitt's Cathedral of Learning. The game was REALLY fun to play as well, and even mostly worked! It was definitely an AEPi kind of booth, the kind that people really enjoyed and kids came back to repeatedly. Even President Cohen loved it, spending 10 minutes playing the game! Kudos to the brothers who built the booth and the alumni who came back to help, including (at least) Sparky and Yeckel.
In Buggy, the guys rolled our new buggy, Zepherus, for the first time. We were technically DQ'd (no hand on buggy when it crossed the finish line), but our time was 2:31, way better than the times from previous years. For our large improvement in time, we were given the Chairman's Choice award. We also rolled Barak/Red Lightning/Camo with a B-team, finishing in about 2:50. The next day, we rolled Camo again during the Alumni Exhibition races and finished in about 2:47, barely edging the Fringe team. 8 different people pushed the buggy, as 6 alumni split the back 3 hills. The AEPi-AK wikipedia has lots of details on buggy already.
Saturday night we had our 20th Anniversary Banquet at the Pittsburgh Athletic Association (right near the bowling alley, site of our past intramural glory), which was a real blast and thoroughly enjoyed by everyone in attendance. We had 5 or 6 old-chapter alumni in attendance who shared some amazing memories of the earliest days of the chapter. Lots of stories were told about our chapter throughout the years including some hilarious stories from old chapter's Mark Hollander and of course Mike Gutenplan, as well as more touching memories from Evan Indianer, Jason Herman, and yours truly. It was clear that the old chapter and older alumni were very proud to see something they started so many years ago thriving so well today.
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| AEPi (and others) Fantasy Baseball |
[20 Feb 2007|02:23pm] |
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We've got a bunch of us back for the 2007 fantasy baseball season. Anyone else is welcome to join (it's free) before the player draft in March. We're still working on the exact format (AL/NL/ALL, scoring rules, etc).
http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/league/alphaepsilonpi
E-mail matthewjacobs01@gmail.com for an invite to join.
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| Fall Pledge Class |
[21 Sep 2006|03:53pm] |
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18 pledges? Nice!
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| Falk's wedding |
[14 Aug 2006|12:12pm] |
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Who all is going to Falk's wedding in Chicago this weekend? Erin and I will be there.
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| Services for Rudy's Father |
[07 Aug 2006|03:26pm] |
From Rudy:
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For those of you in the NY area who have the flexibility to attend my father's service, I thought I would pass on the information.
Services will be held on Wednesday, August 9 at 11:45 am at:
Sinai Chapels
162-05 Horace Harding Expressway
Fresh Meadows, NY 11365
In any case, thank you all for your messages of support. I really appreciate it.
Rudy
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| Fantasy Baseball |
[06 Mar 2006|02:57pm] |
I've set up an AEPi-centric fantasy baseball league on Yahoo! Anyone is welcome to join, and invite others to play.
To sign up, go here: http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b2
League ID#: 3190
League Name: "Tuesday Is Tuesday"
Password: wearpants
The fantasy draft is currently set for Saturday, March 25 at 4pm ET.
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| Falk's Wedding |
[15 Feb 2006|10:36pm] |
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David Falk's wedding will apparently be on August 20, 2006.
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| from cnn.com |
[30 Nov 2005|01:54pm] |
tell me that's not our cofa:
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| David Falk engaged |
[03 Oct 2005|11:25am] |
From David Falk (class of '02):
Hello all,
It doesn't really seem like it has been all that long, but I started dating Jessica 5 years ago now. Well, I finallyl got off my ass and onto a knee. She was very happy to see me give her a ring and I am very happy that we will soon be wed.
Fraternally,
David Falk
You can pass your congrats on to Dave here.
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| Mazel Tov |
[26 Jun 2005|05:54pm] |
Congratulations to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) cooplogic and Erin N. on their engagement!
That's 5 out of 7 from my pledge class that are either married or engaged.
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| dilbert on cmu |
[09 May 2005|04:44pm] |
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photoshopped, but still funny:
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| Final Booth Scores |
[23 Apr 2005|10:45am] |
Fraternity Final Score
KDR 237.15417
SigEp 236.98333
DU 231.5375
AEPi 213.9375
PhiKap 205.6375
SigTau 192.7125
Sorority Final Score
Theta 220.17083
DG 219.90833
TriDelt 218.03333
KKG 194.55
Zeta 190.11667
Independent Final Score
ASA 213.56667
SSA 185.025
TSA 184.73333
Spirit 175.40833
Fringe 171.85833
Pioneers 171.175
KGB 164.16667
Home2020 141.47917
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[20 Apr 2005|08:29pm] |
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So, has anyone from a couple years before me submitted anything to this site for saving Surge soda? I bet they'd get a kick out of our Booth pictures.
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| The Electoral Process |
[20 Apr 2005|05:47pm] |
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Katie Warren lost her bid to be Student Council Secretary at Pitt Law School today.
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