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VISION Pi Alpha Phi is to be recognized and respected by campus leaders, college administrators, and the general public as the premiere Asian American Interest Fraternity. Pi Alpha Phi binds and inspires its members through the shared common values of Academic Excellence, Brotherhood, Leadership, Philanthropy, and Asian American Aware- ness. By applying these values in their everyday actions, our members become positive contributors to the community. - the Strategic Plan 20 years and Counting

Generations A publication of Pi Alpha Phi Na- tional Fraternity for its members, alumni, donors, and friends. By Gordon Wong, UCB

Pi Alpha Phi t’s been 20 years since I first joined the National Leadership Alpha chapter at UC Berkeley. College Iis the time where individuals have the opportunity to form their personal identity. I President pledged in Spring 1989. Some of you who Keith Chu (UC Riverside) [email protected] are reading this were barely born then. When I pledged I didn’t know exactly what I was Vice President getting myself into. There were times I wanted Ken Hui (UC Santa Barbara) to drop out of pledging. I didn’t particularly [email protected] have the “bonding” experience with my pledge brothers that was advertised. Treasurer Sujay Karve (UC Berkeley) I did meet some good men in Pi Alpha Phi. The [email protected] real lesson I learned about pledging and being Secretary active in Pi Alpha Phi was the importance Jason JA Wang of recruiting the “Right Guys”. Pledging (UC Berkeley) cannot teach a person to value academics, [email protected] brotherhood, leadership, philanthropy, or Asian American Awareness. Either someone Alumni Relations has those values; or they don’t. David Jung (MSU) alumnirelations@pialp- haphi.com We all have our memorable and forgettable moments during college, but I am more Membership Develop- appreciative of the connections and bonding ment and Education Doug Radtke that continued after college. In Pi Alpha Phi (UC Riverside) we preach about lifetime brotherhood, but [email protected] how many of us are fortunate to maintain the brotherhood that after college? Risk Management Brian Gee (UC Berkeley) Realistically, how do you view Pi Alpha Phi in riskmanagement@pialp- haphi.com YOUR life after college? It’s great to want the best men in your wedding (which most of our fraternity brothers do), but that’s still just an example of friendship. Brotherhood requires an extra commitment. Not of sacrifice, but holding each other accountable to the values of the organization. To respect and live up to the legacy of the brothers that came before. To mentor those that are coming after. Return to the PIllars

by Doug Radtke

joined Pi Alpha Phi in the Fall of 2002 at San in determining what is truly important in Jose State University. I had rushed almost taking in pledges AND actives and molding Iall of the other fraternities at San Jose them into “men of Pi Alpha Phi”. Are we truly State before I finally came upon Pi Alpha Phi. executing the Pi Alpha Phi Mission? At the time, I was impressed that brothers from Riverside, Irvine, Davis, Berkeley, and Pi Alpha Phi upholds a Tradition of Excellence Santa Cruz bros, as well as alumni came out stemming from the vision of our Founding to support the chapter during its rush. This Fathers. stood to me in very stark contrast to the Excelling in the five pillars molds young other fraternities who only had San Jose State men to be successful in endeavors beyond chapter representatives at their rush events their academic pursuits. We cannot be so and no alumni present. To me as a young arrogant to simply move ahead and ignore bro, Pi Alpha Phi stood for an unbreakable what the founding fathers were trying to brotherhood which when I was rushed was achieve in the first place. described as “the only fraternity where you will know people from every campus we are Much of our discussions regarding the at on a first name basis”. This was true for many fraternity seem to focus solely on pledging, years in my involvement in the fraternity and but the ideas of the Five Pillars really for myself, is still very true. expand beyond pledging into all the facets of our fraternity. We should truly focus Brothers oftetimes focus very often solely on on developing our members into men of the brotherhood aspect of Pi Alpha Phi. But we excellence who make a lifelong commitment an organization of more than just one pillar. to the values of Pi Alpha Phi. There are We have five unique pillars: Brotherhood, tangible connections to our grades, our Leadership, Academic Excellence, Asian connections with the asian community, and Awareness, and Philanthropy. The pillars our willingness to serve others. We know the were created and called such because they symptoms afflicting our organization, but are “what holds our fraternity up”. If we are to we are debating the method of treatment. simplify the Pi Alpha Phi mission statement We should realize that if the symptoms in one sentence - it should be to uphold the have been on-going while the treatment five pillars. Too often, we focus only on one has remained the same - that change needs or two pillars, without much emphasis given to happen. A holistic approach to tackling to the rest. these issues is necessary. We need to take Pi Alpha Phi back to the We have to focus on all the things we will “glory days”. I’m sure many of the younger gain from further development and refining bros have heard older bros and alumni of our fraternal practices, which will take speak of. It begins with understanding the Pi Alpha Phi into the 21st century and concepts of the five pillars and then applying beyond. the pillars in all of the fraternal activities we engage in. We need to take a “back to pillars” approach UC Berkeley Chapter Update

t the beginning of the spring 2007 semes- ter, only nine brothers made up the active Achapter. Almost two years later, our fraternity has grown to 34 actives. The last 3 semesters, each pledge class – Zeta Lambda, Zeta Mu, and Zeta Nu – has consisted of nine strong members. Each new class brings younger brothers and leaders into the chapter; but for the most part, the leadership/cabi- net has always been composed of older brothers. The Spring 2009 Cabinet, however, was an excep- tion, composed of mostly sophomores, the new cabinet was motivated to lead the young “genera- tion.” Challenges arose right from the beginning with the two most evident being a decrease in brotherhood and leadership transitioning. Our chapter grew very quickly over a period of two years; but the size increase of our house created distance between brothers as the fraternity is not as close-knit as the house two years ago. Leadership transitioning was also a problem as older members graduate. Howev- er, we are working with Berkeley fraternity advisers and the chapter’s alumni advisory team to fix these problems moving forward into the future. Apathy and laziness of chapter members were dealt with right away. Our Vice President of Internal James Zheng planned and executed more brotherhood events so that brothers simply just spend time with each other. A brotherhood trip to Clearlake, coupled with our annual ski trip to Tahoe and rafting trip to Cache Creek serve as important bonding events for bros in the house. Furthermore, we created a posi- tion’s guide to help new members see what their position is supposed to do and what old chairs did. On March 22, the Zeta Xi’s – Jordan Cui, Bryan Hard- jadiparta, James Lee, Victor Mu, and Andrew Popov successfully crossed into the fraternity. They were led by Pledgemaster Jeff Louie and Pledge Dad Ben Mo. Zeta Xi installations took place on April 10th with 15 different organizations presenting. Furthermore, our Spring 2009 Cabinet implement- ed successful internal changes to improve how the fraternity runs including revamped committee and fine systems. Additionally, new chair positions were created to give brothers more leadership opportunities and keep them accountable. Other efforts to improve the chapter include more transparent and open communication with alumni, increased siblinghood with our sister sorority (SOPi), a growing online testbank with almost 3 gigabytes UC Berkeley

of files, a Berkeley Pi Alpha Phi Windows Live Groups groups, particularly individuals of Asian and Pacific which includes a calendar of upcoming events, a Sky- Islander (API), Middle Eastern, Eastern European, Drive for storage of pictures, next generation online Russian, and African descent for hepatitis B (HBV). collaborative tools. On a related note, we opened up a new chair in the More efficient meetings were rune with the use of Pow- house, health worker, to educate brothers on the erpoint. We gained more rush sponsorships, and new importance of sanitary conditions, alcohol aware- fundraisers (Kaplan) in addition to food concessions we ness, and sex education. The inaugural chair was usually do for Cal football games. Fall 09 president elect James Zheng and the new position will be carried on by me. Glenn DeGuzman, a member of the Cal Office of Student Leadership, recently joined alumnus Gordon Wong on Alpha chapter has also been improving in terms of the chapter’s advisory team. Glenn DeGuzman joined academic excellence the past year. We have had a our chapter’s executive board. Glenn worked with our rising chapter GPA for 3 consecutive semesters. chapter a couple of years ago to organize a leadership workshop and I am excited to work with him again. During the past year, our chapter’s alumni have landed prestigious positions at the following no- Three of our recent alumni, Richard Din, Quinny Wong, table companies: Deloitte, Morgan Stanley, Cisco and Ja Wang recently volunteered to join alumni asso- Systems, EA Games, Google, Bank of America, Wells ciation committees. Ja currently also Fargo, Johnson & Johnson, represents Pi Alpha Phi as National and the District Attorney of- Secretary along with Sujay Karve as fice. They join recent alumni National Treasurer. In two years, the Alpha who began law school/med- chapter has grown from 9 ical/graduate school in Har- Alpha Chapter attended the WRGA/ vard, UCLA, Cardozo, Santa NCGLC Leadership Conference in brothers to 34, while the Clara, George Washington, addition to the Pi Alpha Phi Nor-Cal chapter GPA has risen 3 and Berkeley. Regional Meeting in April. On the Sunday of that weekend (April 5), consecutive semesters. Four of our alumni also plan our chapter attended with our sis- on starting their own busi- ter sorority SOPi the Intake Equa- ness, www.phomenow.com tion Workshop, a workshop that is , which will be operated near designed specifically for multicultural Greeks, consist- the UC Berkeley campus that all of our bros will ful- ing of recruitment ideas and leadership development. ly support. Our Philanthropy Chair Jimmy Zhang is in the process One of the future leaders of the house, John Tran, of helping our fraternity “adopt a school” in the Berkeley ran and won ASUC’s Academic Affairs Vice Presi- area; once this is finalized, we will be able to volunteer at dent position. I support John wholeheartedly, and local elementary schools with SOPis. Furthermore, our I wish him the best of luck representing the Asian fraternity received recognition and appreciation by the Greek Community in the coming year. He joins fel- Asian American Donor Program and SF Hep B Free for low alumni Ed Lam, Jason Louie, and Charles Chen helping with the Project Michelle Bone Marrow Drive in representing the AGC within the larger Berkeley the last three semesters and helping raise over $2000 community. to fight Hepatitis B along with other campus organiza- tions, respectively. The semester started slowly for Alpha Chapter despite the many changes that were implement- Alpha chapter’s involvement with Cal Hep B Free and ed; nonetheless, I hope the semester ends with a the fraternity’s National Philanthropy, the Jade Ribbon bang. Campaign, has been successful as over 300 students were screened for Hepatitis B last semester. We will Patrick Lam (Spring 2007, Zeta Kappa) continue to support the Jade Ribbon Campaign and strive to bring Cal students, faculty, and administration Spring 2009 President together to screen, vaccinate, and treat high-risk ethnic UC Berkeley Pi Alpha Phi UC Santa CRuz

he 2008-2009 school year for Pi Alpha Phi Zeta Financially, ourchapter has been on a fiscal roller Chapter has been a very productive year. Our coaster. We have been constantly working with Cen- Tchapter started with 8 actives. In Fall 2008, we terplate, a company that sponsors non-profit organiza- crossed the Alpha Epsilons, a class of 5, the Alpha tion fundraisers with the San Francisco Giants and the Zetas in Winter 2009, class of 3, and currently, we San Francisco 49ers. Each sports event that we work have 10 prospective members in the Alpha Eta Class, generates roughly anywhere from $300-$800 per game Spring 2009. depending on the outcome and success of our work. We have also done a fundraising event at a restaurant Of the members of our chapter, Timothy Leung (Al- called Pizza My Heart, which brought in close to $100. pha Beta Class) graduated after the Winter Quarter of 2009, and has been actively pursuing a profession As for Zeta Chapter’s public relations, we have been in law enforcement. Herman Yu, currently treasurer able to not only reach out to more sororities, but as of Zeta Chapter (Alpha Alpha Class), will also be well as other fraternities. Currently, we have been graduating Spring Quarter 2009 and will be pursu- actively associating ourselves with Kappa , ing a career in the accounting field and will soon be Sigma Omicron Pi, and we have been creating relations pursuing his CPA. I, Ronald Chan (Alpha Alpha Class) with other sororities such as , Tri Chi currently President of Zeta Chapter, will be attending Sorority, and Kappa Gamma Delta. On the other hand, Law School in Fall 2009 to pursue my JD. The other we have been on good terms with other fraternities two in the Alpha Alpha Class, Philbert Lee and David such as Psi , Zeta, Delta Omega Chang, will also be graduating at the end of the year, Chi, , and . I show my utmost both pursuing professions in the medical field. Aside gratitude and appreciation for the classes that have from Zeta Chapter actively pursuing to rebuild our crossed this year (Alpha Epsilon, Alpha Zeta, and house as well as our infrastructure, we have not been soon to be Alpha Eta) for helping us expand our doing it alone. social horizons and rekindling our flames with the organizations that have overlooked the existence of PI One thing we have achieved this year, which we Alpha Phi Zeta Chapter in the past. have not before, was building our alumni base. With the uprise of Zeta Chapter, our biggest Throughout this year, we have been blessed with accomplishment this year has to be our Alumni base. the opportunity by receiving plenty of help from our This year, we invited Alumni all over the West Coast Alumni Advisors, Kenny Han and Jerry Yang. Kenny including alumni from Las Vegas, East Bay, Southern and Jerry alone this year have helped us raise over California, to all fly or drive in for an alumni dinner $600 dollars towards our installs, rush events, and night (planned by Kenny Han). We had many alumni social / brotherhoods event. Without the help of attend from Charter Class, Alpha Class, Beta Class, these two core alumni members, our chapter would Epsilon Class, Theta Class, Nu Class, Upsilon Class, and not and cannot be thriving the way we are as of now. many other classes that have made a difference in Zeta Also, our alumni advisors have been helping us build Chapter in the last 15 years. our relations with national leadership, as well as help us with rebuilding our pledging process. Not only did it help inspire the current active brothers in the chapter, it also helped inspire the Alpha Zeta class as they had the rare opportunity to meet alumni from an array of different classes. Zeta Chapter would like to show our gratitude to the alumni that have actively donated to our house, coming out to alumni events, and helping us improve our pledging process by forcing us to focus on the core fundamentals of the fraternity —to name a few, Kenny Han (Epsilon), Jerry Yang (Upsilon), Alvin Lopez (Alpha), Michael Shin (Charter). We are certain that the number of alumni in our newly established alumni base will continue to increase not only because of the financial support they provide us, but most importantly, the brotherhood that they help Zeta Chapter glue together. The alumni have been actively coming Alpha Zeta Installs - May 30, 2009 to Santa Cruz and spending time with the chapter and as a result, rebuilding our brotherhood, a core fundamental that Zeta Chapter has been lacking for quite some time. Michigan State University I have a lot of faith that the new brothers that crossed this year have earned their places in this chapter s a chapter we’re doing very well. A quick as they have been actively contributing greatly to recap of our semester consisted of a great the ideals and traditions that we hold clear. All our Aperformance at Michigan State University’s newly crossed brothers (Alpha Delta Class Spring Asian-American cultural show, crossing of two more 2008, Alpha Epsilon Class Fall 2008, Alpha Zeta Class brothers into this fraternity, and the installation of Winter 2009) have all stepped up and picked up lil our Mu and Kappa class; not to mention our many bros in their first quarter of being an initiate/active. philanthropy, social, and fund raising events. Not only that, Edwin Yu (Spring 2008) became Pledge Dad for the Alpha Epsilon Class, a quarter after he We ended off our year with a brotherhood bonfire crossed. Likewise, Zack Mai (Spring 2008) and Jason that lasted all night before bros departed for the Yang (Fall 2008) have stepped up and also became summer. Pledge Dad for the Alpha Zeta and Alpha Eta Classes, We successfully elected our new positions for the respectively. next academic year and are slowly transitioning into them as the previous chair holders mentor the As the year comes to an end, our seniors will be new ones. graduating, but most importantly, our younger actives, whom are mostly sophomores and freshmen, The Pi Alpha Phi house is now relocated to a bigger have already been in the process of taking on major house and better location where instead of 4 bros leadership roles, which include cabinet positions and living there we have 7. We’re very excited for our other important positions such as fundraising, social, new house because its location should bring more and rush. rushees and is better fit for us. Although it’s summer time and most of our bros Overall, even though our chapter is fairly young went back to their hometown we still have a big and inexperienced, we have faith that the house fundraising event planned for this summer and will continue to prosper and grow because each are already registering for another one in the fall to and every individual in this house has devoted their increase our finances for the upcoming year. sweat and blood into the eternal brotherhood of Zeta Chapter. All-in-all the Mu chapter is growing and becoming Fraternally, well known in our community here. Ronald Chan Jeff Yang Zeta Chapter President President, Spring 2009 Mu Chapter UC San Diego

fter a year-long hiatus, our chapter returned with a strong Fall and Winter ARush. We crossed seven and six bros, respectively. During the Fall pledging program, an alumni barbecue was set up by Shuja Dawood, our alumni liason. It was one of the biggest gatherings for Theta Chapter, as we had at least 50 of our alumni and associates attend to play sports and eat delicious food. Of those alumni, 5 of our chartering bros also came out to support us. During winter quarter, a joint brotherhood was held in which Theta Chapter (San Diego), Episilon Chapter (Riverside), and Eta Chapter (Irvine) met up at Staples Center to watch a Rho Class basketball game between the Los Angeles Clippers and the Golden State Warriors. It was Pledge Captain Norman Wei, Minh Ta, Andrew a great sight to see so many bros having fun Pai, Kevin Yu, Sang Han, and David Hsiao and seeing familiar faces, and is definitely something we hope to do again. Also, congratulations to our bros who are We would like to congratulate both Pi and graduating this year. There are a lot of them, Rho classes, on recently getting installed into and they are a big part of the fraternity. We the chapter: wish them the best in the future and will value their support as alumni: Pi Class Alex Kim - Kappa Class Eric Pham , Andy Tang , Alden Huang , Scott Andrew Youn - Kappa Class Shin , Jeffrey Dyo, Allen Chuang , and Pledge Nick Tang - Mu Class Captain Eric Bui Gary Liu - Mu Class Anthony Kim - Nu Class Sang Lee - Nu Class Tyrone Posadas - Nu Class Avelino Farinas - Xi Class Edward Chang - Xi Class Anthony Wei - Omicron Class Jonathan Lo - Omicron Class On a final note, I would like to take this moment to remember Kevin Kuo of Omicron Class, who sadly passed away in October. He will always be remembered as a genuine individual, selfless and caring to everyone around him. Rest in peace Kevin, we miss you. UC Irvine

he Eta Chapter this year has been doing pretty well. We have added 4 new Brothers to the House in the Fall and 6 more in the Winter. Sadly we have 8 Brothers that will be graduating, Tleaving our house with 30 Brothers that are active. Although our house has been strong with our brotherhood, are current financial situations aren’t too outstanding. We faced a lot of fines at the beginning of the year, but are currently improving in our financial situations. We have been currently doing a lot of fundraisers to raise money to cover our debts. With our academics, we are currently going steady as a house maintaining above a 2.5 GPA. Many Brothers have also been keeping themselves in shape by actively going to the gym and playing basketball at least three times a day. We are currently playing softball in intramurals with Irvine KDPhis. As for philanthropy, we continue doing the same philanthropies that we have been doing for years, which are Operation Christmas Child and raising money for Jade Ribbon. We recently did another philanthropy for MADD also. Our house’s relations with Irvine sororities remain strong as it always has been. We are also currently branching out to other sororities that are off campus building our relations with them. I believe our house is doing pretty well despite many difficulties that our house as a chapter and national organization has been in because of the strong brotherhood our house is maintaining. We will continue what we are doing and continue bettering the house in any way possible.

Fraternally, Richard Luu 2009-2010 President Eta Chapter University of Michigan

appa Class, #32 David Cho graduated this year On March. 8th, 2009, we were representatives of as a civil engineer. He will be working at Exxon “K-grams Kids-Fair.” It was a huge success where over KMobil as a “Project Engineer”. Mr. Cho was an ex- 1,000 kids were entertained and educated by activities president and ex-pledge master and has contributed about thinking, living, sensing and moving. Our event vastly to our chapter. involved hand eye coordination tests modeled after dart throwing for prizes. This event greatly benefits The last two semesters, we have crossed two classes of students’ academic progress and it was an exceptional two: event for the fraternity to partake in. This was featured Fall Semester 2008, Omicron Class: in the Michigan Daily. #45 Chiawei Leu (Pledge Captain), #46 Frankie Chiu Winter Semester 2009, Pi Class: Our chapter also co-sponsored the Center of Korean #47 MJ Gellada, Studies: Movie #48 Eddie Song s c r e e n i n g s (Pledge Captain) to promote K o r e a n We have had many awareness. joint events with other chapters We also co- and sororities. sponsored a sporting event Our chapter with the Hong attended the Kong Student installs of the Association and Associate Chapter Alpha Delta of the State Kappa Phi. (Ann University of New Arbor) It was a York: Buffalo. game in early March which O t h e r showcased NBA collaborations teams such as included rush “The Suns” and parties and “The Pistons” mixers with at “The Palace”. o r g a n i z a t i o n s (Detroit) This such as Alpha event not Phi, East Coast Brothers - Winter Semester 2009 only could be , considered as , Sigma a brotherhood Lambda Beta, and . event, it promoted our fraternity to the Asian campus community of our University. We represented the “Green Lantern” team in Greek Week along with Academically as a chapter, we mutually agreed that other fraternities and sororities and placed third. we want to succeed more in the classroom. Therefore a GPA requirement of 2.5 per semester is strictly Brotherhood events the past couple of semesters enforced. Unmet, the individual will be on probation included (but not limited to) barbeques, bowling as an active of the house unless office hours and nights, billiards, and sporting events such as basketball tutoring requirements are satisfied. Study hours will and football. also be enforced strictly.

Our chapter was very active in philanthropic events: In the annual Asian American event on campus Fraternally, “Celebrasia,” Our chapter raised awareness on Hepititis B and what the Jade Ribbon Campaign stands for. We Xi Class #42 Evan Kuei sold bracelets to raise money and support our national philanthropic cause. Vice President of the Iota Chapter University of Arizona

ince the start of Pi Alpha Phi here at the Univer- about 5 more brothers graduating in May, having sity of Arizona, over 47 brothers have crossed a successful alumni outreach program is crucial to and 23brothers have graduated. My chapter keep these alumni members in touch with what S the chapter is doing. has been having some hardships in recruitment as well retaining the new members we’ve had as they go through the pledging process. Michael Shih has taken the initiative to take over the Tucson alumni association and Yoshi Walker We have fixed this by implementing a new pledg- has taken the initiative to take over the Phoenix ing program that will hopefully not only keep more alumni association. members, but will motivate them to stay active in the fraternity not only on the social side, but in other Last semester we held a big Asian Pacific Ameri- areas as well, such as philanthropy and leadership. can Student Association Fall social with all Asian- American affiliated clubs/organizations on cam- I clearly remember when one of pus. In addition to this, we our alumni members had told me Kappa Chapter was also went to the Cirque D’or, “We might be a fraternity, but we recognized for outstanding a performance by a Chinese are a business first…”. We have golden dragon acrobatic had problems financially in the academics and superb team along with several or- past, but all that has changed chapter management ganizations to help build our with a set payment plan with public relations with them. Greek Bill. At the most recent Greek In the past couple of semesters, we have been having Awards, my chapter was recognized for outstand- trouble not only with keeping people active and also ing academics and superb chapter management. in paying their dues. Greek Bill has been awesome We have also been very active with the Asian cen- and easy to work with in order to collect the dues ter here and have also taken the initiative to take from the brothers. over the RICE BOWL, which is an annual tourna- ment which is held during APIA month. This will These last couple of years have been hard for the count as our annual community service as well as Arizona chapter of Pi Alpha Phi here at the University a good way to work on our public relations with of Arizona, but through these hardships, a stronger other organizations. and better fraternity has risen from it. We should have about 5 brothers graduating this year and have 28 Brothers that have graduated this past fall 2008: alumni now here at Kappa Chapter. Christopher San Jose – Alpha #12 Spring 2K3 In addition we are also implementing a new member Phillip Fung – Beta #17 Fall 2K3 education program in which teaches the new mem- bers the 5 pillars of ΠΑΦ and leadership skills. Hope- Brothers that will be graduating this Spring 2009 : Michael Saito – Delta #22 Fall 2K4 fully, this will help turn new members to active broth- Benjie Arandia – Delta #24 Fall 2K4 ers that will help better the chapter and make it more Pierre Niere – Zeta #29 Fall 2K5 successful. Michael Nguyen – Eta #30 Fall 2K6 Michael Mannil – Eta #32 Fall 2K6 This new member education program will help not only keep the new members during their pledgeship Congratulations to these brothers for graduat- but also see them cross into a House that has had ing and all the luck to you in the working world. brotherhood since 1929. Overall, Kappa Chapter of Pi Alpha Phi has been prospering. The only downside is that with 4 ac- The Alumni Outreach program will give the alumni tive members, the brothers can only do so much, a chance to give back to the house in which they but hopefully, this upcoming Fall class will add not crossed into. Each one of these alumni brothers are all only more new members, but new QUALITY mem- successful in their fields and can teach the new mem- bers to this remarkable and prosperous chapter. bers about resume building, job searching, etc. Since my chapter only has about 23 alumni brothers, and Naweed Sherzada - President, Spring 2009 University of North Carolina

he 2008-2009 school year has brought Activities at the center involved organizing fun and the Nu Chapter of Pi Alpha Phi at UNC- educational games, as well as participating in these TChapel Hill many new opportunities to events. The chapter also helped local warehouses move take advantage of so that they are continuously and organize their vast inventory. Overall, not only was ascending in many aspects. Thanks to our many the chapter helping out its community, but it also gave active members with philanthropic interests, brothers old and new the chance to work together. each brother was able to clock at least 20 hours of community service. The Nu Chapter has been more and more involved with campus activities, especially among the Greek Our chapter is also continuing to improve our community. Pi Alpha Phi has become the largest Greek academic standing at the university. This year organization in the Greek Alliance Council. The Greek we have stressed the importance of instilling our community at UNC-Chapel Hill has begun a large fraternity’s pillars in new members, and feel that campus-wide project know as “Greek Week”. we have done this very successfully. Our entire chapter, along with the five new brothers that This project will help illustrate the many benefits and crossed this year, are now ready to take on the joys of being Greek for upcoming freshmen and other new responsibilities and opportunities which lie Greek-interested student for the entire campus! The ahead. Nu chapter of Pi Alpha Phi is already very involved in this endeavor and plans to make a huge and influential Over the course of two semesters, the UNC impact on campus. chapter was able to host a myriad of fundraising events, five of them being Chinese food sales We would like to congratulate our Lambda and Kappa with the help of a local Chinese restaurant, and class in becoming active members of Pi Alpha Phi one being a Donut Challenge with the support this year. It was an event in which we had brothers of Krispy Kreme. from MSU attend, as well as aKDPhi’s from UNC, Duke, Virginia Tech, and some SOPi’s in attendance as well. In regards to our nationally known Jade-Ribbon The night was enjoyable for all with some crazy dancing Campaign, each Chinese food fundraising and serenading. For the members that installed that project was able to raise an average of over evening, it would be one of their most memorable $50 dollars. Jade-Ribbon is our chapter’s main nights. fundraising focus in order to help spread the awareness for Hepatitis-B among the Asian Almost all of the actives participated in a roadtrip to community. the University of Michigan during the Spring 2009 Semester. The roadtrip brought many of the new The Donut Challenge is always welcomed on our members a taste of brotherhood even away from home. campus, an event in which contestants take on After arriving in Michigan, members were welcomed the challenge of eating three donuts in a minute. with open arms. For some, it was the first time to meet We have also participated in fundraisers for the their brothers from other chapters. The UNC chapter victims of the Sichuan Earthquake in China. came back with experiences and stories that would never be forgotten. Besides our Jade-Ribbon involvement, the Nu chapter has had the special opportunity of This past year, some of our bros had the great hosting many philanthropic events around the opportunity of participating in the Installs at SUNY- local area. Activities such as volunteering at the Buffalo. We always have the greatest time and always Ronald McDonald House and aiding in breast look forward to seeing our brothers from other cancer awareness with aKDPhi’s are just a few chapters. Buffalo was no exception. events the chapter has done in the name of philanthropy this year. Throughout the year, the Nu chapter has also attended several aKDPhi installs for chapters at UNC, Duke, and One particular venue which our chapter was Virginia Tech. most involved with was Extraordinary Ventures, a local funhouse for children with mental Mr. Roman Do left the chapter in the early spring to disabilities. Members of the fraternity spent embark on a new path towards a successful career in countless hours almost weekly at this center New York. Mr. Do is currently working as a business serving not only as friends, but also as mentors. analyst. University of Washington

For the 2008-2009 year, we established our Alumni network and have developed the following Mr. Soomin Song has been dedicating his time this committees within the group: Alumni Advisory past year to the UNC Center for Alcohol Studies, Board, Pledge Reform, Career Development, spending numerous hours researching various Communications, and Recruitment. These alcohol related topics such as alcohol poisoning, committees are intended to support the growth neurological effects, etc.. and improvement of our Chapter. Our Advisory Board meets monthly to go over ideas, proposal, Mr. William Gerichten came back from service in Iraq and updates. in the fall. The celebration of his return was short- lived though as his services were needed again this We currently have alumni that work for Boeing, past semester. At this current time, Mr. Gerichten is Microsoft, Deloitte, Accenture, Frito Lay, Holland in Iraq once again protecting our country. America, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Engineers Northwest, Nintendo, and the U.S. Army. Our Mr. Hans Choe recently opened a very successful chapter has also gained a contracted sponsorship business in Raleigh, running a Korean Supermarket. from The Princeton Review and an unofficial sponsorship with Red Bull this year. In the winter, Mr. John Zhang currently resides in New York, where we were featured in the school newspaper for an he works in the integrated marking department article about Asian-interest Greeks. We also hosted for MTV. Mr. Zhang has also dedicated a significant a Crank 2 Release party for 42West Productions. amount of his time towards the Beanstockd Project, where he is the director of public relations. The As for service projects, in the fall we participated Beanstockd Project is an initiative to deliver to the in a Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence public environmental information through the pop Awareness (S.A.R.V.A.) event by designing t-shirts culture. with the sisters of Zeta. This spring we participated in “One Page at a Time” and “Literacy Finally, the Nu Chapter at the University of North Laps” with the sisters of Pi Nu Iota to promote Carolina would also like to recognize Mr. Jimmy children’s literacy. We have also participated in our Gala, Mr. Teng Tu, Mr. Ivan Ng, and Mr. Mitchell annual philanthropy “Relay 4 Life.” Luong for their successful undergraduate tenure at UNC and graduating as the class of 2009! Graduating this year from our chapter is: Richard Chuong (Geographic Info Systems) Wei Dai (Economics and Retail Management) Stephen Gillie (Business Finance and Management Information Systems) Cuong Q. Nguyen (Communications and International studies) Bobby Southavong (Economics)

Letters on UW’s Red Square UC Santa Barbara

hrough our first 3 years of the event, our chapter benefited greatly. establishment, our chapter at We were able to plan and manage an TUC Santa Barbara has grown event of this scale that we never imagined exponentially each year. Since the crossing was possible. With over $20,000 of funds, of our 9 charters, our house now has grown along with campus-wide advertising and to 27 brothers strong. These brothers have support from all pan-hellenic fraternities exemplified hard work and dedication and sororities, the brothers of our chapter to the building of the foundation for this experienced and learned that our potential fraternity. With our last remaining charters as a fraternity is limitless. graduating this year, I am proud to say that our newer generations have transitioned Brotherhood in our fraternity is unrivaled. In into reliable leaders and are continuing to addition to regularly hanging out on our free be contributing assets to our success. Our time we hold weekly events as well as large- house these past few years have been the scale brotherhoods that keep us connected. dominant cultural fraternity on campus We have gym and study hours every week recruiting more potential brothers than where all our members attend and help both, Zeta Phi Rho (Beta chapter) and each other. Events such as barbecues and (Gamma chapter). Also, small brotherhoods during sports events last year, we began our lil sis program and give us the opportunity to strengthen bonds through two classes we have produced 28 between our brothers. New additions to our total lil sisses. events this year include date parties where we rent out a club and invite our lil sisses One of our greatest strength as a fraternity and dates to attend and also an annual is our ability to run professionally and snowboarding trip during the winter. As efficiently. After one year of fulfilling brothers begin to graduate, we are taking requirements and overcoming obstacles strides toward building an efficient alumni we gained chapter recognition from our program early in order to keep in touch with campus. We have a stable bank account them. This year, we will be making our first and we have established a financially composite for our chapter and inviting all sound system on which we properly our charters back to be in it. Applying for full manage our fraternity’s funding. With the chapter status is our main goal for next year addition of more members, our fundraising as well as hosting convention. Our brothers has also exponentially grown. The brothers are motivated and continue to exemplify of our chapter have remained reliable and the attributes of being a man of Pi Alpha Phi. punctual on all dues and expenses of the The UC Santa Barbara Pi Alpha Phi chapter fraternity allowing us to focus on all our has proven to be strong and our potential to operations without financial setbacks. grow and become an even more successful chapter is immeasurable. This past year we have attended and hosted several philanthropic events such Fraternally, as blood drives, community restoration projects, and Relay for Life. One of our Karl Koo, Spring 2009 President largest accomplishments thus far has been the opportunity to host one of UC Associate Chapter Santa Barbara’s most famous and attended events, Fight Night. Through unforeseen UC Santa Barbara circumstances however, we were unable to go through with the hosting of this event. Although we were unable to have University of Buffalo

ince our chapter expanded in Fall of 2008, our chapter has gone to cross two good Sclasses. In Alpha class we welcome to our family: (Line order) Justin Lum (Chinese), An- drew Hwang (Korean), Danny Hwang (Korean), Eumine Choi (Korean), Joshua Young(African American-PC), Daniel Kim (Korean). In Beta class: Hamilton Ho (Viet), Nicholas Thor (Chi- nese-PC), Samuel Yon (Korean), Philp Moy (Chi- nese), Evan Lee (Chinese). We have crossed 22 guys into our chapter. With each class that crosses into the Buffalo house, before they cross, they must make a gift to the house. These class projects help promote brotherhood within the group in addition to providing something extra they can call their own contribution to the house. The Alpha class built a DJ booth. The Beta class built a cage and a platform for the DJ booth. The name Pi Alpha Phi has become a well- known Fraternity on campus. We’ve been at- tending weekly Inter-Greek Council (IGC) meet- ings, as well as bimonthly Cultural Fraternity and Sorority (CFS) meetings. Roman Do (EpsilonClass, Fall ’05) an Alumnus from UNC, Nu Chapter recently attained a job in Seneca Falls, Rochester. It is a hour and a half drive which he makes once in a while to visit our chapter. We traveled to Syracuse University with Roman to mix with the ladies of Kappa Phi Lambda Sorority. Our philanthropy events this year included such events as Buffalo Kid’s day, Riverside Clean Up, various Walks and Runs as well as participating in events from the school. We’ve documented over 80 hours of community service this year. Our brotherhood chair last semester, Joseph Suh did a great job in gathering the bros to- gether and planning events. Our members partook in events such as, but not only, BBQs, sporting events, ice skating also beer and wings night while watching the game. We are hoping to create a better initiate pro- gram, leading to high performance in Pi Alpha Phi members in our chapter. It was proposed to have initiates who will now cross into our house to rotate between members of the cabinet to shadow their responsibilities. This will give a sense of the importance of each position in the Fraternity and also give them an idea of which positions they would want to take in the future. National Googlegroups

i Alpha Phi maintains 2 googlegroups to help facili- Ptate communication among the brothers. A googlegroup is an online group that helps users connect with people, access information, and communicate effec- tively via e-mail and on the web. An actives’ group was created to help undergraduate mem- bers communicate with each other across the country. An alumni group was created to help alumni communicate with each other.

The two new groups may be accessed at: http://groups.google.com/group/natl_paphi_actives http://groups.google.com/group/natl_paphi_alumni

The Purpose of this Fraternity is to encourage higher scholastic achievements in the Light of Truth, and to promote that Bond of Brotherhood - from the Pi Alpha Phi Constitution

SP 09 Pi Alpha Phi National Asian American Fraternity a proud member of the National Asian Pacific American Panhellenic Association