Delta Kappa Epsilon

Week of October 24, Construction Update & Halloween

Monday night started with dinner and chapter meeting. Northern Deke had their monthly meeting. Brian and Paul introduced Bob to us. Bob is our new Property Manager. Northern Deke has decided that the cost of hiring an outside person to be the day-to-day contact for us was worth the cost.

We agree. Having someone “on call” that knows what he is doing is much better for the operations of the house, frees up time for the Alumni to do other things, and makes us more accountable of keeping the house clean. Bob’s a no nonsense kind of guy so we know what is expected of us.

The roof is done and the huge crane is gone. It is nice to have the parking lot open again. The new pipe for rainwater has been hooked up and now runs out into the parking lot. Not sure how that will work during major rains or ice during the winter time but we will deal with that when it happens.

Next up on the construction list is the window wells facing the boys next door. Sounds like the window wells will be filled in and put in glass block at the ground level with an exhaust fan so we can better air out the basement during social gatherings.

Oh, and the heater in the basement works again too. Nice.

Some guys went to Madison for Halloween. A few of our guys are from there so having a place to stay and park was not an issue. Last we heard all of our guys came back on one piece and without any tickets.

For those of us that stayed here there were a few parties to go to away from the house. For the most part is was a quiet weekend.

Week of October 17th, Let The Construction Begin

Paul our Chapter Advisor warned us that it was about to happen, he was not kidding. Monday and Tuesday we had guys doing tuck point work on the roof.

Wednesday we got word that the roofers were moving up their timeline and that we had to be out of the parking lot by 3 pm on Thursday.

Thursday and Friday they took off the old roof and started on the new one. We also had plumbers breaking through the concrete wall in the boiler/laundry room to run a new rainwater run off pipe from the roof to the back lot.

We have also had the window well drains outside capped and there is talk of filling that in and replacing the old basement windows with glass block and a dual fan for the basement.

The boiler was inspected and each room in the house had its steam traps and valves looked at. The idea is to make sure we are running as efficient as possible this winter.

Saturday we had hoped they would finish the roof but the weather forecast was for rain. Wouldn’t you know it, a perfect day to be outside. That’s the way it goes…

Week of October 10th, Wisconsin Badger Football Game, Dekes Of Hazard

It was a quiet week. That was until the weekend. It was the football game against Wisconsin after all. Not saying much about the football game as the last 90 seconds or so were awful at best.

That night, 15^th, we had our Dekes of Hazard party. For some reason or another we do not seem to have any pics from the evening. Needless to say there were many Dekes and guests dressed in appropriate Hazard attire. We had a good time and had a great turnout.

A Quiet Week, So Far...

With Homecoming past us we are back into the rhythm of studying, sleeping, and normal college life. Some of us had some catching up to do but it looks like all of us are doing well.

Getting ready for the road trip to Ann Arbor this weekend. We are leaving Friday around Noon so we hope to be there by midnight. That is the plan unless rush hour in Chicago is horrible in which case it will be a very late night.

We are looking forward to seeing our Michigan Brothers, DKE HQ Staff, and a Gopher Victory bringing home the Little Brown Jug for the 1^st time in 16 years.

We plan on posting each day this weekend.

Week of Sept 26

Last Thursday we got together with the ladies from Delta Gamma. We had The Profits, a great band out of Madison, play a few sets for us in the basement of Deke. They played the next night at the Varsity Theater. Below are some pics of the band.

On Saturday we had a Brotherhood Event that went late into the evening.

Deke Wins Homecoming Awards

At the Homecoming Awards on Sunday night our pairing of Deke, Alpha Phi, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Phi Sigma Kappa, and Sigma Alpha Mu took 2^nd place in the Homecoming Front competition and 1^st in the Cheer competition.

Way to go!!!

Pictures of the Homecoming Front are below.

Tulane Dekes In The Star Tribune

In the Sunday morning issue of the Star Tribune is a story titled, Vikings foe: The Saints march on. On page 2 of the online version are quotes from Phil Sweeney regarding how important football is in Louisiana. Delta Kappa Epsilon is mentioned in the article.

Tulane Dekes In The Minnesota Daily

Today the Minnesota Daily has a story on our Tulane Brothers. Click here for a link to the story.

The job done by the university administration to make the transition of those affected by Hurricane Katrina has been phenomenal and we cannot thank them enough.

Thanks also to Kevin McCahill of the Minnesota Daily.

Faculty Advisor Search

One of the ideas we came up with this summer was to find a Faculty Advisor for the chapter. Turns out we may have as many as four Alumni from other Deke chapters who are members of the faculty. We have one in the Carlson School of Management, CLA, and two at the Med School.

Until the past few weeks we were not aware of this Alumni presence so we are busy contacting them. Their role may be as simple as stopping by for dinner once a month or could be as involved as having weekly advising hours at the chapter.

At this point we are open to any suggestions they have and understand that they already have a busy schedule.

We hope to have this in place by November 1^st.

DKE Consultant Visit

Andrew Bird, DKE Consultant, was in town over the weekend for an annual visit. Andrew was here to meet with Chad, the Greek Advisor, Northern Deke, and the chapter.

With us we talked a lot about chapter operations and recruitment. Because he was only here for a couple of days we hope to have Andrew back in the next couple of months so we can work in some more planning and evaluate how the execution of this weekends work is proceeding.

We were fortunate that his Michigan State Spartans beat the Irish on Saturday. Andrew did a lot of pacing and swearing during the game but fortunately for him, and us, his ala mater came out on top. Andrew was a walk-on at Michigan State.