This past year not one, not two, but four WPI fraternities won awards from their national chapters for the 1995-1996 school years. The proud and esteemed chapters on our campus that won prestigious awards are Alpha Gamma Delta, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Theta Chi, and Zeta Psi.
Alpha Gamma Delta's Zeta Zeta Chapter here at WPI has earned the Five Star Award once again for its commitment to the five points:
The Scholarship Star - For maintaining a 3.0 GPA average or be ranked number one in scholarship for all women's groups on campus.
The Leadership Star - From a commitment and balance of philanthropy, social, campus involvement and awards presented by the WPI.
The Standards Star - For upholding the ideal Fraternity standards.
The Quota/Total Star - For reaching their chapter total (set by the Pan Hellenic Council ) by April 15 of each year.
The 90% Initiation Star - For initiating 90% of their new members.
The last time AGD won the Five Star award was during the 1993-1994 school year. Seven of the 116 other AGD chapter that also won this esteemed award are: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Mercer University, Auburn University, Murray State University, Fort Hays State University and the University of British Columbia. AGD has also won a Jewel award, along with 17 of its sister chapters for raising over $2,000 through its philanthropic efforts.
Tau Kappa Epsilon won the TOP TKE award for the fourth time in the past five school year for the Northeast region. Each year each chapter is reviewed for this award within each region. Chapter president Sahal informed me that maintaining a strong GPA, ample community service, good risk management program, good alumni relations, campus leadership and activities and participation is the Special Olympics and tutoring at Doherty High School, here in Worcester, all are part of what it took to win this award. In addition, TKE won 4 more awards for their dedication to the following areas: Scholarship, Alumni Support, Public Relations and Rush.
Theta Chi's Epsilon chapter won a number of excellence awards from their national chapter including the Howard R. Alter Award for chapter excellence, the highest award that can be given to an active chapter. Also because of their massive rush effort and active brotherhood they won excellence awards in the areas of Risk Management, Procedures and Involvement, New Member Education Programming, Campus Involvement, Alumni Programming, Rush Programming, Success in Rush Award, and Philanthropy/Community Service Programming. Their summer renovations and awards will lead to a happy new school year.
Zeta Psi, the first coast-to-coast and international fraternity presented its Pi Tau chapter with its most distinguished award, the Comstock Award and the Outstanding Chapter Award. The highly sought after Comstock Award is passed along to the Zeta Psi chapter that most exemplifies the vision of brother William A Comstock, which includes promoting true brotherhood, whose membership is lifelong, turning out self-respecting, original thinking, self-controlled, purposeful gentleman The most Outstanding Chapter Award was earned through much hard work by initiating 100% of it's pledge class, maintaining a high level of scholarship, leading and participating in numerous on-campus activities and events, working at a soup kitchen and earning money for charities and working on risk management. The Pi Tau chapter last won this award in 1985, which is impressive for a 20 year old chapter.