Issue 1 January 2005

Alpha Epsilon Pi Phi Delta Chapter at the www.pitt.edu/~aepi

Message From the Master

Brothers; the last two weeks, we have sat Special points of down and figured out where we Right now, I am shocked. I re- interest: want this fraternity to be in the cently emailed Nationals, asking next year. One of the main things • Alumni Weekend for an Alumni list from our chap- we spoke about was alumni rela- ter, thinking I was going to get • Election Results tions. This chapter has been around one hundred names. But to around for thirty-five years and we • Executive Board my surprise, I received over three are only in contact with brothers Reports hundred. Looking over the list, I from the last ten. Not anymore! So • House Update saw names I recognized from over- personally, I would like to wel- night camp and NFTY and a ton of • Happenings come everybody back into the others that I have only learned loop. Please contact me with any • Past Masters about. I am sure it has been a while Message questions, concerns, or comments Scott Lipner since many of you have heard that you may have. I am excited Omicron Pledge Class • Spring Happenings from your fraternity and I apolo- Class of 2007 for this new beginning and I look gize for that. But this is the begin- forward to hearing from every- ning of a new chapter. Two weeks 101 North Dithridge Street body. ago, elections were held and I am Apartment 506 Pittsburgh, PA 15213 the master of a new and very Fraternally Yours, [email protected] promising executive board. Over Scott Lipner (610) 639-6671

Inside this issue: Election Results 2 35th Anniversary Alumni Weekend

Pi Pledge Class 2 Initiation Although things are in an early not seen your brothers in a while Scott Lavine at (310) 367-5533. stage, we would like to have an so this would be a great time to You can also email Steve at IFC Football Champs! 2 alumni weekend to celebrate the catch up with everybody. We are [email protected] and Scott

Phi Delta Happenings 3 35th anniversary of the Phi Delta looking for some alumni to help us Lavine at [email protected]. We are Chapter. As of now, Friday, No- make this weekend happen, so if all looking forward to having a Lieutenant Master’s 3 vember 4– Sunday, November 6, you are interested, please call Scott great a great weekend. Report 2005 looks like a great weekend to Lipner at the number listed above, Spring Semester 3 do this. I am sure a lot of you have Steve Bosk at (215) 378-1056, or Happenings Message from the 4 Past President Alpha Epsilon Pi · P.O. Box 7364 · Pittsburgh, PA 15213 · [email protected] Phi Delta Chapter at the University of Pittsburgh

Election Results!

Elections were held on October Scribe: Exchequer: 31, 2004. Our new executive Steve Bosk Aaron Marks board is very dedicated to this [email protected] [email protected] fraternity and has a very promis- (215) 378-1056 (215) 901-0990 ing future. Rush Chair: Sentinel: Master: Jake Kind Charles Crawford Scott Lipner [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (215) 801-7077 (267) 240-9809 Pi Pledge Class of Fall 2004 (610) 639-6671 Pledge Master: Top Row: Alex Smith, Jeremy Fine, Mike Schwartz, Kyle Blacken, Lieutenant Master: Doug Richmond Olufemi Majekobaje, Brian Fitz- Blake Edelman [email protected] patrick, Dan Dressler [email protected] (215) 840-3366 Middle Row: Doug Wilder, Jason (201) 572-8576 Steinberg, Robbie Edelman, Ian Rozansky Bottom: Adam Seldon Congratulations Pi Pledge Class!

Congratulations to the Pi Fall Jeremy Fine Adam Seldon “No one could tell me Pledge Class of 2004. We initi- Lower Merion, PA Plainview, NY ated 12 pledges this fall. Our where my soul might Brian Fitzpatrick Alex Smith spring rush looks to be one of be; I search for God, Cheltenham, PA Commack, NY the strongest springs ever! but he eluded me; I Olufemi Majekobaje Jason Steinberg Kyle Blacken sought my brother out Portland, OR Cheltenham, PA Cheltenham, PA and found all three.” Ian Rozansky Doug Wilder Daniel Dressler Poet Howard Crosby Commack, NY Plainview, NY Cherry Hill, NJ Mike Schwartz Robert Edelman Cheltenham, PA Manalapan, NJ

IFC Football Champions!

On Sunday, November 21, 2004, downs and newly initiated year, and another basketball Alpha Epsilon Pi beat brother Kyle Blacken caught two championship should help us 24-0 to capture the Inter Frater- of them. Brother Alex Novick capture IFC’s All-Around Sports nal Councils Football champion- sealed the game with an inter- title. ship. This is the first time in ception in the end zone to pre- recent memory that our fraternity serve the shutout. This is the has captured this title. Brother second championship that we Jake Kind threw for three touch- have won in the last calendar

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Phi Delta Happenings

• Our fraternity house is now giving them an automatic • Brother Marc Katz (1976) located on 253 North Dith- two points and two free is now serving as AEPi ridge Street in North Oak- throws. National Acting Executive land. We have lived in this Vice President. • Brother Dave Douglass was house since the fall of 2003. just elected as IFC’s Vice • This spring, four brothers • Last spring, AEPi won the President of New Member are going abroad, one to IFC basketball champion- Education. That means that Italy, one to Spain, and two ship, finishing the season AEPi has now held that to . We know they with a perfect record. At position for three years in a will have the experience of The Pitt AEPi house is lo- cated on 253 Dithridge times, brother Charles row. a lifetime and wish Matt Street in North Oakland. Crawford was the leading Litman, Dave Ashwal, scorer for the opposing Brian Schuchart, and Yoni team, dunking the ball, Nagelberg the best of luck.

Lieutenant Master Report

A major motivation of mine is lars from canning just in the past our reputation around campus is to bring back a focus on philan- two weeks. Our campus charity held with high regard from the thropy. We now have come in is the Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric university, the community, and “We have also raised contact with a large volunteer AIDs Foundation, and our na- more importantly, the sororities. nearly four hundred organization called Pittsburgh tional charity is for an Ethiopian Feel free to contact me with any Cares which offers a wide vari- in question, concerns, ideas, or just dollars from canning ety of volunteering opportunities Winnipeg, . to keep in touch. just in the past two from helping in soup kitchens to As a brotherhood, we’re keeping Fraternally Yours, weeks.” restoring and painting aban- tradition alive while always ex- doned buildings. We have also Blake Edelman panding and revitalizing to keep raised nearly four hundred dol- our chapter ever improving, and Looking forward to the Spring!

As the Spring Semester begins, try to win three sports for the Phi. We are planning on continu- we are excited for a fun filled year. We will continue to have ing the tradition by spending our and action packed semester that numerous mixers with the sorori- formal weekend up in Niagra looks to be even better than the ties on campus such as Alpha Falls, . and we will end past fall semester. We are look- Epsilon Phi, Tri Sigma, Delta the year with a bang with our ing to have a successful rush. Zeta, , and Kappa annual Planet of the Apes Week- We will also be looking forward Kappa Gamma. We also are end. to defending our IFC Basketball looking forward to the last Greek Blake Edelman, Mike Hertz, Championship and make a Week event, Greek Sing, as we and Adam Naider at the strong run at soccer as we will are paired up with Alpha Epsilon Ballers Bash

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The Mission Statement of Alpha Epsilon Pi

Alpha Epsilon Pi was founded to provide opportunities for the Jewish college man seeking the best possible college and fraternity experience. We have maintained the integrity of our purpose by strengthening our ties to the Jewish community and serving as a link between high school and career.

Our heritage stems from one source: young Jewish men banding together in allegiance. The role of Alpha Epsilon Pi has expanded since its inception in 1913. Initially, the Jewish fraternity served as a brotherhood of young men who came from similar religious backgrounds and who had experienced the same prejudices against their religious beliefs. Alpha Epsilon Pi soon broadened its role to include serving as the living quarters for some of its mem- bers. The fraternity became a home away from home, providing the same stabilizing and guiding values that students previously gained from their fami- lies. Armed with these values, Alpha Epsilon Pi faced changing conditions on the college campus and survived. Today, Jewish students search out Alpha Epsilon Pi because it is a Jewish Fraternity. In the fraternity's 90 year history, over 77,000 men have worn the badge of Alpha Epsilon Pi and each year, over 1,800 undergraduates perform the Ritual of Initiation, which remains the same ritual adopted decades ago.

Perhaps of greater importance, Alpha Epsilon Pi develops leadership for the future of the American Jewish community. Tomorrow's Jewish leaders are in our chapters today. These are the young men who must be counted upon to support Jewish causes and to prepare to be one of tomorrow's Jewish lead- ers, so that they may aid themselves, their family, their community, and their people. Those students who enter the mainstream of non-Jewish life on the campus are far more likely to assimilate and to forsake their heritage. Working together with the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life/International Hillel, Alpha Epsilon Pi can play a vital role in helping reverse the growing trend among our young people to abandon at this critical time.

Throughout our history, the fraternity setting has served as a "learning laboratory", a testing ground for young men who later become leaders in business, education, government, religion, and science. A goal of our fraternity is to help each student to develop character, to learn responsibility, and to develop a proper set of values through living together in brotherhood. Alpha Epsilon Pi prepares young men for their role in life as responsible citizens.

Therefore, our basic purpose is to provide the opportunity for a Jewish man to be able to join a Jewish organization whose purpose is not specifically religious, but rather social and cultural in nature. Alpha Epsilon Pi is a Jewish fraternity, though non-discriminatory and open to all who are willing to espouse its purpose and values.

Message from the Past Master

Since my induction into the brotherhood in the fall then what it has already given me. I know that of 2001 our fraternity has jumped leaps and in the forthcoming years our already strong bounds from what we once were. Now at 48 brotherhood will only grow stronger. Under the strong, our brotherhood has held leadership posi- guidance of the new Executive Board, there is tions on several University administrative boards no doubt in my mind that we can not only meet as well as in such religiously affiliated groups like the goals we have set out as a brotherhood, but Hillel and JHP. Our fraternity has also been heav- we will be able to exceed them with ease. I ily involved in raising money for The Elizabeth encourage all of you as alumni to reconnect Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation and Mogen with our chapter if you have not already, and David Adom. On a lighter note, the Phi Delta through this our chapter can only become chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi has been excelling in stronger. Thank you all for helping us to make more then just philanthropy and leadership on our chapter what it is today, and I can promise, campus. We are currently in the playoffs for the as your brother, that only good things are to Michael Hertz Inter-fraternity Council football league and are the come from the Phi Delta Chapter here at the Lambda Pledge Class reigning basketball champions. We have also built University of Pittsburgh. Class of 2005 quite a reputation on campus, and our social schedule has been packed with a multitude of Fraternally; great events. Michael L. Hertz I could not ask much more from this brotherhood Former Master

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