Go and visit the Photo Albums page and see four Fall 2004 galleries as well as a picture from Spring 2004 graduation in the Spring 2004 section. Enjoy!

Things have been pretty busy around here lately and we're right in the middle of a TKE-packed week. Pledging is almost over, the Read-A-Thon was a huge success (thanks to all who participated and helped out), and we're right in the middle of officer elections. So far two of the three nights of elections are over and so far the following offices have been decided:

• Prytanis - Trevor Dolan
• Epi-Prytanis - Greg Coale
• Histor - Pat Bierly
• Crysophylos - Brian Yeager
• Hypophetes - David McElwee
• Grammateus - Josh Andreas

Thursday will be the last round of elections with Hegemon, Pylortes, RUSH Chair and Chapter Advisor being decided. In other news, the annual Quaker Rake is this Saturday. Anyone interested in joining the brothers of Mu-Theta in this community service event can meet us in our lounge at 10am.

As far as general website updates go, I finally removeed the defunct Events page since we haven't used that in well over a year. Also, I have updated the look for brother profiles in the Scroll List. Oh, and you can now view pictures of this semester's pledges on the Current Class page. There has also been an update to the alumni page.

TKE will hold its 2nd annual Read-A-Thon in order to benefit the Kirby Fenton Fund. Starting on November 5th at 6pm, 6 brothers will read for 36 hours in one hour rotations until November 7th at 6am. The brothers reading are as follows: Brian Yeager, Mark Katzenbach, David McElwee, Tom Courtney, Josh Andreas, and Luigi Raccanelli. The event will take place in Burchfield Lounge in the Wertz Building. The brothers will be unable to leave the lounge during the duration of the event.

The money for the fund will go to benefit the family of Kirby Fenton, a brother and graduate of Lycoming from 1980. Fenton died of brain cancer in December of 2003. Fenton lived in Seminole, Florida, where he worked as a police officer for 18 years. Fenton is survived by his wife and two children.

Donations can be made at the site of the event or can be mailed to the following address: Kris Accardi, 700 College Place, Box 209, Williamsport, PA, 17701. Please make checks out to the Kirby Fenton Fund. Last year the brothers made over $1000 dollars and would like to surpass that amount this year, so please help out!

Well, it's been a while since I've done an update. It's been a fairly busy month. Todd Farmer came in from TKE Nationals the other week and presented us with the Top TKE Plaque, which was very beautiful to behold. We have two members in our fall pledge class. Also, today is the last day of our second homecoming for the year.

I have an update for the 2005 RCB -- The final date for that event is March 19th, so mark it on your calendars and prepare now. Some other website updates are updated brother profiles as well as an updated gallery. The gallery includes three new Fall 2003 and two new Spring 2004 galleries. More recent galleries will be up soon! Enjoy folks!

First off we need to let everyone know that April 2nd isn't going to work for the RCB this coming year due to facility reservation, but it will be on either March 12nd or March 19th, we just haven't decided yet. So for all you alumni: try to keep these dates open and we'll let you know which one we choose as soon as possible. Better yet, if you have a preference then please email Alumni Information on the Contact Page.

In other news, I finally got my hands on a copy of The TEKE Magazine. Mu-Theta is, without a doubt, one of four Top TKE Chapters for 2003-2004. This means that we excelled in all seven areas that TKE nationals looks at when ranking how well a chapter is doing. Congratulations fraters!

Also in The TEKE Magazine is alumni frater Mark "Poohy" Puzdrak 508 who was awarded Volunteer of the Month for September 2004. For those of you who don't know, Poohy graduated in the Spring of 2002 and is currently the Grand Province Advisor for the Chesapeake Province.

This just in: the latest edition of The TEKE Magazine has Mu-Theta listed as one of four chapters bestowed with the highest honor of the fraternity: the title of Top TKE Chapter. Through hard work, sweat and blood we have risen to the top! Congratulations fraters on this tremendous accomplishment, and let us continue to show everyone what we are made of! More information on this announcement will be presented here when it becomes available.

A tentative date of Saturday, April 2, 2005 has been chosen for the next Red Carnation Ball. If anyone has questions about this date, please email special events.

We'd like to thank all of the alumni that made it back this past weekend. The brotherhood would also like to extend special thanks to frater John Lea for purchasing a brand new TKE flag for the house, and frater Walt Chubrick for getting the brothers brand new pool sticks. So, thanks for everyone for a great homecoming, and be sure to check the calendar page for lots of new updates on events for the semester.

It's homecoming fraters! Well, sort of. This year it's a bit more complicated than usual. First off, homecoming is insanely early this year. Secondly, Chris "P-Ting" DeHart 511 is getting married this weekend to one of our ex-sweethearts, Kerrilee Morton. The reason this is a problem is that several actives, as well as most of the alumni from the past five or six years, will be attending this wedding instead of homecoming.

For those of you who will be here this weekend fear not! We will still be having most of our homecoming weekend events, though we apologize that things will not be quite as hectic as usual. Events start this evening with a Meet and Greet social in the lounge at 8pm. Also, please view the alumni page for news on a second TKE Homecoming that will allow all of our younger alumni (and older too!) to come and visit when there are no other commitments. There's not too much else to report so we hope you all have a great homecoming this year!

As far as general updates, the calendar has been updated.

A large number of information pages have been updated, including the brothers, officers, committees, and room pages. The calendar has also been updated. Coming soon: galleries from last spring, and more news!

We'll soon be updating with lots of information from the summer, and we apologize for the long period of silence. In order to speed up this process, if anyone has an event or news item that occurred this summer or is coming up soon, please email it to the Webmaster. Thanks, and here's to a busy semester!

We now have a picture and quote of Abby on the sweetheart page! Enjoy!

Never a big fan of fake news on April Fools' Day, I put my time and effort into actually updating the website instead of tricking you all with something along the lines of "Founder of Playboy becomes TKE Mu-Theta Honorary". But anyway, the entire website has been updated to reflect the latest class of brothers. The only thing that isn't up for them is scroll list profiles, though those will be up within a week I suspect.

The end of the semester is fast approaching and we'll be seeing off eight of our brothers who have been there for the fraternity through thick and thin. Let's all enjoy the rest of the semester, and remind these guys just why they joined TKE Mu-Theta!

Sorry everyone, but due to a scheduling conflict with the gym, there's no basketball game tomorrow. Many apologies to everyone involved from the entire brotherhood of TKE, but there's nothing we can do as the basketball game was booked over by another event that can't be moved. Don't blame anyone folks, these things happen. Hopefully next time things will go smoother.

Thanks goes out to TKE alumni Brian Belz for providing the fraternity with a whole slew of new furniture for the lounge.

Would you like to put one of your professors, friends, or faculty, "under arrest". Well this Friday, 26th from 12:30 to 5:30 pm, the brothers of Tau Kappa Epsilon are holding our Annual Jail and Bail event in our lounge, center East Hall! Proceeds of this philanthropic event will benefit the Angela Kite scholarship fund. The bail for each individual will be set at a minimum of $5 and upwards. Need more info., contact denkevi@lycoming.edu.

Local band "Chaser" will be playing this Saturday, March 27 at Jack's Corner at 9:30 to midnight! Come see some great music brought to you by a band that includes TKE brothers Matt Stendardi, Greg Coale and David Monti. Also, everyone who comes to the event will be entered to win a $25 Gift Certificate to the Lycoming Mall. There will be 2 winners but you must be present to win. The drawings will be held during the sets.

The John Kneisly Hunger Strike will be held this weekend to raise money for the Richard Kneisly Weight-Awareness Fund, started by Richard's son, John Kneisly. This fund is designed to provide money for research being done to cure morbid obesity, and to help poor families pay for surgery relating to this genetic disorder. This genetic disorder is the disease that killed Richard Kneisly. Donations are raised through solicitation by the people fasting, as well as from donations given to the people fasting once the 48 hours are over in order to pay for food, bringing everyone back up to full strength. If anyone is interested in striking or helping our John with a donation please email John at knejohn@lycoming.edu.

The sweetheart section of the website has been updated due to the induction of our new sweetheart, Abby Franks. A picture and quote will be put up as soon as I get those from her. Also, I have added brother profiles for all of the actives that didn't have one, as well as updates on others. These can be seen from links on the brothers page or directly by looking at the most recent scroll list pages and clicking on a brother's name. If the name is in bold, it is a link to their profile. Any questions, feedback, or changes can be sent to me here.

This is just a quick note that I hope everyone had a wonderful time at the Red Carnation Ball this year, actives, alumni and dates. If there are any questions, feedback, or perhaps pictures of the event you would like to see posted on the website, please email the webmaster (me) at blajaso1@lycoming.edu.

Not that big of an update this time except information-wise. First off, there is tons of news in the newest newsletter. There is a list of officers for 2004 as well as a list of pledges and their big brothers for spring 2004. It looks like it's going to be quite the semester!

RUSH week was this past week and everything went very well with eight bids returned on Bid Return night last Friday. Once the bid returnees are officially signed into the program I will make an announcement listing their names and the big brothers that they have chosen. This update should go up this coming Sunday or shortly thereafter. As for general site updates, there are now more dates on the calendar with more to follow once I get a list of dates from the Vice President and various committees. Also, the committee chair page has been updated to reflect this semester's new committees.

Important Update: The RCB has been moved for the second, and final time, due to scheduling conflicts with the people we schedule it with. The new and final information is that the Red Carnation Ball 2004 will be held at the Scottish Rite on Saturday, March 13th. For more information see the alumni page.

Ignore the 'cleaned up soon' comment in the last post, I didn't feel like sleeping quite yet so I decided to go ahead and clean up a bunch of the galleries. Things like white borders and punctuation are much better in most places now. Oh, and if anyone wants to know the definition of insomnia, it's 3:40 A. M. and after typing in over 300 names, the scroll list now has every alumni's name listed. Enjoy.

There are now five galleries available in the Photo Album section, all from fall 2003. Check them out, and please email me at blajaso1@lycoming.edu if you find any errors, problems, or whatever. Some of the pictures will be cleaned up soon (blurry, white edges, etc.) and more galleries are on the way!

The following sections have been updated: news archive, alumni, calendar, officers, brothers, contact information and room information. Expect more to follow!

Well, break is about over and soon everyone will be back on campus and have plenty going on again. This past semester was pretty lax in updates, but have no fear because with duties reorganized you can expect more updates and more content! That's right, with me being full-time website guy again there will actually be current updates. As usual, if you have any comments or requests for the website please email me at blajaso1@lycoming.edu. Cheers!

- Jason Moses "Ezekiel" Black 537