Official Beta
Sig Newsletter
Fall 2010 Established 2006
Historian address Unity, Pride, Honor Historian, Another Eventful semester has wrapped up and the next Newsletter of Beta Sigma Epsilon is here. There is been so much that Beta Sig has done during the Fall semester of 2010 and the Gentlemen of Beta Sig has experienced and grown from all of it. We have invited new brothers into the fraternity, strived for academic excellence, served for the betterment of the community, increased our outreach to other organizations, become more mature and professional as individuals, and much more. As the Historian for Beta Sigma Epsilon, I have improved my time management skills, note taking abilities, and creativity. Being historian as also made me a better leader and more outspoken. As a member of Beta Sigma Epsilon, I have improved on all levels in accordance with our pillars; Academia, professionalism, brotherhood, community service, and cultural awareness. As each semester passes; I grow and learn being a Beta Sigma Epsilon fraternity member. I hope this Newsletter gives you an idea of all we have done.
Shay Tsosie,
Shay Tsosie Fall 2010 Beta Sigs Erik Brown Beta Class Julio Montiel William Townley Beta Class Eta Class Recruitment/Rush Chair
Israel Charley Beta Class Philip Riley Delta Class Shay Tsosie President Gamma Class Historian/ Community Service Chair
Steven Charles Zeta Class Scott Riley Brother at large/ Social chair Epsilon Class Treasurer/ Professional Chair
Josh Yasteya Zeta Class
Communication/ Cultural Apollo Davenport Awareness Chair Gamma Class Vice-President/ Academic Chair
Alyson “Roy” Thompson Eta Class
Brotherhood and Social Connections The next pillar a brother obliges to, is brotherhood. Beta Sigma Epsilon strives for establishing a sense of “brotherly love” within the fraternity as well as a friendly environment with the entire community. This semester, gamma chapter hosted a variety of social events within the brotherhood, other Greeks, potential new members, and community.
Brotherhood socials There have been a number of socials that were exclusively for the just the brothers. Some of these socials include the pledge event barbecue social and the 2nd Annual casino night. At the barbeque, we enjoyed each others company at the unofficial beta house. The pledges made a delicious lunch for us and we watched football, played games and socialized. Casino night was also located at the unofficial Beta house. Brothers played casino games with fake money, with the brother with most chips won a prize. Both events were very successful and fun. Although we don’t have many official social events, we are a brotherhood and are always doing something social all semester long.
Greek Socials This semester we had the pleasure of getting more acquainted to the sisters of Theta Nu Xi sorority by having several socials with them. Beta Sig hosted the Theta Nu ladies to a friendly game of volleyball with a food social afterwards. Of course, Beta Sig won the match but we were generous in our victory. A very fun and exciting event it was, socializing and relaxing with the girls of Theta Nu. We had another social with just Beta Sig providing the food, such as a Beta Sig Gentlemen would do, and socialized the entire evening.
Serenades! This year, Beta Sigma Epsilon Gamma chapter participated in its first serenades event on campus. Serenades are when the fraternities go to each sorority house and sings to them. In the past, it was talked about among the brothers but never done. This year we came together and performed two songs for all the lovely sorority ladies we sang to. Being the first year performing in serenades, we sounded nervous and forgot a few lines but grew more in confidence after each house. We all had a blast, singing and getting to know the other sororities on campus.
Cultural awareness Another pillar of Beta Sigma Epsilon is cultural awareness. As a multi cultural fraternity, we try to become more aware with each others cultures and other cultures as well. We are historically Native American and we generally focus on Native American culture, but we do partake in other cultures as well.
Laguna Feast Another event during the pledge process, the brothers took the pledges to the pueblo of Laguna for their annual feast. We spent the day up their observing the festival and traditions that are displayed at a pueblo feast. We ate tons of food, watched the traditional dances, and walked the booths setup across the pueblo for the feast.
Professionalism and Academics The goal of any college student is to not only graduate, but graduate with a very good education and GPA. Beta sig’s main goal for all of its members is to have all of them graduate with their desired degree and have a very good G.P.A. in order to get into graduate school or be easily employed into the field that the brother wishes. Also, through a brother’s education, we want them not only to graduate but learn how to be professional and apply that professionalism into the real world.
Tailor and resume workshop During the pledge process, we had a tailor and resume event that taught the brothers how to dress business professional. Pledges and brothers learned the basic dress code attire required of professional dress, how to tie a tie, and how to dress up accordingly. Brothers learned what kinds of shirts, pants, socks, shoes and ties were acceptable as a professional dress. We apply this knowledge at our events and at our weekly meetings. We dress and act professionally at all our events and meetings.
The resume part was building up our resumes. We learned how to effectively make a resume and were challenged to compose our own resume to be reviewed.
Meet and Greet Martin Heinrich During the 2010 city campaign, senator nominee Martin Heinrich came to one of our brother’s homes, Scott Riley, and discussed the importance of voting in the election. This was a great opportunity for the brotherhood to see how to be professional as well as get educated in why it is important to vote. Also, it was strictly informative and no campaigning was done while Martin Heinrich talked with the brothers. Beta Sigma Epsilon is a non partisan organization. Overall, a good and educational event.
Community Involvement Community Service is one of the five pillars of Beta Sigma Epsilon. We strive for excellence in serving our community and even though we are required to do a minimal amount of service hours, our Brothers go above and beyond and strive for 20 hours a semester. As a fraternity we have performed over 120 hours of community service. We do community service hours on our personal time but we also organize group community service events as a fraternity. We believe working together is the best way to serve our community.
JDRF- Walk to Cure Diabetes On November 6th 2010, over 4,000 people were attending the JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes event at the Balloon Fiesta field and Beta Sig was of those people. The walk is dedicated to finding a cure for type 1 diabetes and is a national event. The goal of the Walk this year was to raise over $90million for Diabetic research. We were able to raise over $400 to donate to JDRF helping them reach their goal for the year. This was the fraternity’s philanthropy for the semester and was a major stepping stone for the fraternity in establishing future philanthropies and how to reach the goal set to helping that philanthropy, example being the Burrito sale that raised $321 on October 31st 2010.
Joy Junction Joy Junction was a possible philanthropy for the Fraternity because of what it provides and does for the community. Joy Junction is a domestic violence facility but also a shelter for homeless, needy, and/or run a ways. They do not turn away anyone, they make accommodations for anyone if they need a place to stay, something to eat and offer classes/courses for people who need to get back on their feet. We visited Joy Junction as our community service event for the pledge process. The guys were given a tour and found out it was a very good facility and place to be. After the tour, cleaning up of the facility commenced. An entire field was cleared of weeds and trash. It was an eye opening experience seeing all of the people down on their luck and hopefully Beta Sig can visit Joy Junction soon down the road Fall Frenzy This semester, the fraternity signed up for the annual Fall Frenzy event on the UNM campus. It is a student organization event where each group is assigned an area of campus and it up. Each area had certain jobs to be done such as raking leaves, digging up dirt, picking up trash, planting trees, replacing wood mulch at the base of trees, and so on. Beta Sig was assigned the Southeast corner of campus near University and Central. We worked along with other fraternity’s and replaced the wood chip mulch and dug out dirt for the UNM Physical Plant Department. The event was very successful and is just a small thing we do for our community, especially our University.
Class Crawl Another UNM campus event, took place before the start of the fall semester. Tours were offered on freshman day which took place the day before the semester started to incoming freshman. The tours consisted of a handful of students in each group, and tour guides led students around campus to show the freshman where each of their classes would be located. Beta Sigma Epsilon volunteered their time to guide freshman around campus. It was a good event and a way to get BSE name out.
Hanging of the Greens UNM’s oldest student tradition, the Hanging of the Greens is a student run event where over 13,000 luminaries are setup and lit all over the UNM campus. This event took place on December 3rd 2010 and the site that Beta Sig had was between the Hokona Hall and Education building, with over 350 bags being setup there. Brothers were active all day, filling the bags with sand in the early morning, setting up bags in the afternoon and finally lit the bags in the evening. Beta Sig joined the caroling group that evening and went around the entire campus admiring and singing at all the luminaries locations.
Walk like MADD This semester, Beta Sig participated in the Walk like MADD event with Theta Nu Xi. The event was very successful as President Philip Riley said in a meeting, and that it was a very beneficial and informative walk. Only several brothers were able to attend the walk but nonetheless, BΣE presence was felt that day.
Birthday of Beta Sig! On November 18th 2010, Beta Sigma Epsilon Gamma Chapter celebrated its 4th year on campus and its 10th as a Fraternity. BΣE was founded in 2000 at the University of Arizona and Gamma Chapter was established in 2006 at the University of New Mexico. The birthday was a successful, taking place in the UNM Student Union Building’s Ballroom B. Guests included but not limited Theta Nu Xi, alumni/Thunderbirds, former advisor, families and friends of the brothers, Dine’ of UNM, and other small groups of guests. At the birthday party people were honored through mention which included past Gamma chapter presidents, Alumni/Thunderbirds, and brothers from other chapters.
Our MVP’s Pamela Agoyo and Jonathon Pino were given an even higher honor which came with gifts. Pam, our former advisor and founding mother of gamma chapter, was presented a massage gift certificate to a very luxurious spa for all of her hard work and support she has given to the Gamma chapter of Beta Sigma Epsilon. Jonathon Pino, Thunderbird of gamma chapter and Executive director of Beta Sigma Epsilon Fraternity, was awarded a Santa Clara style pottery made from another Thunderbird, Daniel Begay, for his tremendous dedication and effort he has put into Beta Sig. He has sacrificed his time and energy to serving the Fraternity and has done more than we could ever ask for in a Thunderbird, and he truly deserves the award and recognition for all his hard work. Thank you Pam and Jon P. for everything you have done!
The Bench… Provided by the Physical Plant Department as a donation, Beta Sigma Epsilon designed and painted a bench in collaboration of the Birthday celebration. The bench was power washed by PPD and then the rest was done by the brotherhood. After the wash, primer was applied once the bench was dry. Next, the brothers gathered together to design and begin to paint the bench. Finally after a few days of hard work, the bench was completed with many brothers adding their own touch to it. The bench has our symbols and mascots on it as well as BSE and when we were founded both at UNM and at the University of Arizona. It will forever stand as a sign that Beta Sig is and will be here for a long time to come.
Funding the Birthday As much money Beta Sig has, there was not too much to spare for the big birthday party in November as well as the paint and supplies for the bench. The fraternity needed some extra cash to help cover all the costs, unless we wanted to spend all of our semester money, and the best solution was to have a fundraising event before the birthday. The main fundraiser was an Indian Taco Sale. It took place on campus, in Mesa Vista Courtyard west side. The sale was very successful, giving us about $400 in cash. Because the sale was based on donations, we made a very large profit. After the sale, we calculated that we had enough to cover all the birthday expenses without going over our budget. Hopefully we will do another fundraiser to boost our general account. It was also a very fun and brotherly event, spending time with each other.
New Brothers! This semester, we welcomed two new brothers to the Gamma Chapter of Beta Sigma Epsilon.
Introducing Eta Class:
Alyson “Roy” Thompson William Townley Freshman- Architecture Major Junior- English Major Diné Diné
Pledge Process The pledge process was a long one this semester, stretching over 8 weeks. We had plenty of potential young men, and we allowed two young men to pledge. We had an event for each of the pillars and also had two events which we let the pledges plan and coordinate. The newsletter highlights the events we had, and all of them were successful and fun. Our pledges started to learn what it means to be Greek and a Beta Sig. Gamma Chapter is always adjusting and fixing the pledge process but we seem to have positive feedback each semester from the pledges. Hopefully another pledge process this Spring!
Thank You…
To our Founding Fathers
To our Thunderbirds
Brothers of Alpha Chapter
Brothers of Beta Chapter
Brothers of Gamma Chapter
Brothers of Delta Chapter
Pamela Agoyo- Founding Mother
Jonathon Pino – Executive Director
Jon Gayer- Gamma Chapter Advisor
Officers of Gamma Chapter
American Indian Student Services
Theta Nu Xi
Alpha Pi Omega
Dine’ of UNM
Multi-Cultural Greek Council
University of New Mexico
Cross of Hope Lutheran Church
And EVERYONE else for all your support and contributions that helped Beta Sigma Epsilon Gamma Chapter have a successful and exciting Fall 2010 Semester.