University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Chapter carries on dream :hrough quality education OMEGA PSI PHI To assist students at a. local black college who lere experiencing serious financial problems in Lrchasing their textbooks, members of Omega si Phi sponsored their second annual Greek liow on April 8 in Gregory Gym. Approximately 1,500 people, including UT ludents and other university students from |:ross Texas, attended the event. Fraternities lid sororities from the University and various Irher schools stepped across the stage in lopes of keeping their dream of black achieve- jient alive at Huston-Tillotson College. Years ago, Martin Luther King had a dream ' - the dream that someday the black struggle I ' ould be over. We feel that the only way to liake this dream possible is through a quality plication. If the students attending Huston- Tillotson can ' t get their books, that ' s just one more barrier in their plight for that quality education, Michael Anderson, physical edu- cation-psychology senior, said. The Omegas donated over $1,500 from the Greek Show proceeds to a book scholarship fund. Members of Omega Psi Phi purchased the textbooks from local bookstores and Huston- Tillotson students were allowed to check them out, free of charge, and return them at the end of the semester. A lot has been done to help black students succeed in college, but so much more needs to be done. By sponsoring this book scholarship fund, the Omegas are giving back to the black community. Had it not been for the struggle of past black college students, blacks would not ! have been in the University today, President Clarence Hill, print journalism senior, said. The scholarship fund was one of many proj- ects Omega Psi Phi participated in yearly for the benefit of the Austin community. We have done such things as adopted a needy family for Thanksgiving, sponsored a Halloween party for underprivileged and hand- icapped kids, donated our services to Big Broth- ers Little Brothers of Austin and donated to the United Negro College Fund. We also sponsor an on-campus scholarship to a qualified UT un- dergraduate, Hill said. by ReShonda Tate MOMENT OF SUSPENSE: Omega support- ers nervously await the announcement of the April 9 Greek Show winner. RONT ROW Michael Eugene Anderson. Clarence Edward Hill Jr.. Dacyl Brooks Brown. BACK ROW: Quintus Sherw.n Hampron. Derrick I t Patrersun, Kirk Anronmo Jackson. Peter Rene Jerry Clay Chandler, Omega Psi Phi 48 1

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KAPPA SIGMA AMONG FRIENDS: George Bradford and Dave Vanwise laugh at a joke told by Mike Boykin at the Texas In- dependence Day benefit party .J on March 4. ike Keith Jeff Kennedy Keith Knox Chris Kroeger Chris LaRue Craig Ledbetter Jesse Leitner Marc Little Christopher Long Carl Marotto Stan Marsh IV Todd Mayfield James McAnelly III Michael Meaux Paul Moreton Richard Morris David Nichols Donald Patteson Jim Perdue Thomas Phelan Michael Purcell Alan Quaintance Jr. George Ratliff David Ray Robert Ray Steven Read Kevin Regan Andrew Rorschach Taylor Schwab Brent Shirley Alan Taylor Charles Thiltgen 480 Kappa Sigma Christopher Thompson Doyle Todd James Vcrnon Wyeth Wiedeman Jason Womack Richard Wood

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LAMBDA CHI ALPHA , Showing their dedication to the eld- erly of Austin, in September, Lambda Chi Alpha joined the Greek and Student Or- ganization a group of 10 sororities, 12 fra- ternities and 12 student organizations designed to assist this neglected community. We help out nursing patients as well as the infirm elderly that are living in their own homes, Don Kloster, English junior, said. Kloster, chairman of the Greek and Student Organization and Lambda Chi Alpha member also said that this program would be expanding into a major force to combat this social problem. Eventually, we hope to have offices in the city where the elderly can call if they need help. These offices would act as ce nters for the eld- erly, Kloster said. About twice a month, Lambda Chi members provided activities for the elderly. Projects in- cluded taking the citizens out to dinner and to Longhorn basketball games, sponsoring a casino night for them and decorating their doors at Christmas. Some funding for the projects was to come rom a special benefit concert in the spring given by country music star George Strait and a grant provided by the Hogg Foundation. We plan to build this organization into a self supporting group that will eventually pro- vide transportation, a hotline whatever the elderly need, Dan Schmidt, economics junior, said. LITTLE SISTERS: FRONT ROW: Wendy Lynette Hinkie, Kathleen Mane VcrEecke, Michelle Evans, Heather Lyn Beauchamp, Kristin Michelle Rice. Laurie Ann Teeter. SECOND ROW: Mele Angelique Perkins, Leslee Ann Sparkes. Laura Kernan Gunnin, Heidi Lynn Srammberger, Dina Michelle O ' Brien. THIRD ROW: Sara Lynn Leeman, Caron Elizabeth Arnold, Patricia Ann Overmyer, Anne Elizabeth Woodruff. BACK ROW: Rachel Lee Johnson, ida M Diehl, Julie A. Reno, Paige Ellen HiU. Members reach on ! to aid elderly community Other members said that these special ex- periences with the citizens led to deepened at- titudes and good feelings towards the older members of the community. We are caring to them and they are just as caring back to us. It ' s good to go out and do service projects with other Greeks, John Schmisseur, aerospace engineering sophomore, said. Usually all people hear about fraternities is Brent Alford Philip Antinone Alfred Armstrong Eric Bailey Kenneth Baker James Barufaldi Scott Bauer Stephen Black Frank Brancaccio Michael Cagney Thomas Clark John Comerford Jimmy Crane Bill Cronin Phillip Davis Peter Durbin the bad stuff, not the positive. This project combine youthful energy with the older g eration into something memorable for b sides, chairman Kloster said. You get a good feeling when you see reaction and the joys in their faces when visit, Schmidt said. by Deborah Chung 482 Umbda Chi Alpha