On Friday, Jan. 30, the Inter-Fraternity Council (IFC) held their annual spring walk to welcome more members into the social Greek community.
Before the walk, recruitment for the fraternities took place in the ABC rooms of the Student Union. Vice President of recruitment for IFC, Daishan Johnson, was in charge of planning most of the events, setting up open houses and recruiting men prior to the walk. According to Johnson, there was not a large amount of men to choose from this year, but he believes recruitment went well despite the low numbers.
“Recruitment went pretty well judging by the small pool of people we could choose from. From open houses to different organizations having their own events, we received around 50 percent of eligible freshman, which is a good number in my opinion,” said Johnson.
But, as you walked by Iler Field on Friday afternoon, it almost seemed like the complete opposite. The field was covered with people, either participating or watching the event. All of the eight IFC fraternities lined the center of the field chanting, cheering and waving flags in preparation to greet their new members.
When the clock struck 5:00 p.m., watchers could not help but notice all the white shirts lined up in anticipation, as the new members that participated in men’s recruitment got ready to run to their new fraternities.
After Wolfgang Acevedo, the associate director for fraternity and sorority life said a few words to kick off the men’s walk of spring 2015, the members of IFC ran to their fraternities first.
Then, it was finally time for the new members to run to their chosen fraternities, which filled the men’s walk with excitement, as the fraternity’s welcomed their new members with bid day t-shirts, cheers, high-fives, hugs and even chest bumps.
IFC Vice President of member development, Neil Reyes said, “I think it went really well, about 70 men walked to their respective brotherhoods. Each fraternity did an amazing job recruiting men. Our Vice President of recruitment Daishan, did a great job planning open houses, tabling before walk and planning [the] walk itself.”
Here is a full list of the numbers of new members each fraternity welcomed at the walk:
| Sigmna Nu | 12 |
| Pi Kappa Phi | 11 |
| Theta Chi | 10 |
| Phi Kappa Tau | 8 |
| Alpha Sigma Phi | 7 |
| Phi Mu Delta | 7 |
| Sigma Phi Epsilon | 6 |
| Alpha Chi Rho | 1 |
