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Sig Ep awaits fraternity house
Shannon Dille
Issue date: 10/3/07 Section: News
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There has been much talk about the Sig Eps obtaining a brand new house this year in west campus; however, this is misleading, according to Dean of Students Richard Franklin.
"We can't say that we have a house yet," Sigma Phi Epsilon President and junior religion major Caleb Foust said. "But we do have a house off campus, and we're hoping to someday soon get a house on campus."
The Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity currently has a house three miles off campus where six brothers and their Doberman pincer puppy live. However, fraternity members are taking active steps in order to obtain an official establishment among the other Greek houses on campus. For some time now, the Sig Eps have had their eyes on the athletic annex in which the University's athletic coaches keep their offices.
"We have been looking and talking with people about what it would take to get that building for our own campus fraternity house and rent it from Samford," Foust said.
With the opening of the new Pete Hanna arena on the horizon, the fraternity hopes to make the athletic office building their new home.
"(It is) not a new building. It's just a big rumor, and I'm glad that The Crimson is here to help squash it," Franklin said. "It's an old building and it won't be like your typical west campus fraternity house. It's more like a hang-out place with a big chapter room."
Plans are being made to make the building appealing to future pledges. Foust hopes that having a house will increase their membership, which is currently at 25.
"We will probably have six brothers living in the house at a time," Foust said. "We'll have a library and a computer lab, too. The national fraternity will buy us our own computers to put in there because Samford's computer labs get so crowded around exam time."
Franklin has played a significant role in helping the fraternity obtain their goal.
"We're in the negotiation part of the process right now," Franklin said. "We haven't formalized anything yet, but we've been in touch a lot with their folks working out some details."
The dedication for the new Pete Hannah arena is Oct. 19.
"If things work out with the Sig Eps like we hope they will, they will probably be in there by the first of the year," Franklin said.