SPOTLIGHT
Helping Hands Descend on Waveland

The mission: impossible. The workers: willing. The people: desperate. The town: destroyed. On Thursday, September 29, 2005, a twelve-truck caravan departed from the Statesboro campus of Georgia Southern University with a mission before them: for the next three days members of the Sigma Nu chapter would distribute supplies and help clean up the debris left by Hurricane Katrina in Waveland, Mississippi.
The Waveland community of 7,000, located about 35 miles east of New Orleans, was devastated by Hurricane Katrina when it hit the Gulf Coast several weeks ago. According to an Associated Press article from August 31, "State officials said [Waveland] took a harder hit from the wind and water than any other town along the coast. The storm dragged away nearly every home and business within a half mile of the beach, leaving driveways and walkways to nowhere."

The Sigma Nu chapter learned of the devastation first-hand from one of its own, freshman James Ledford, whose family calls Waveland home. As a result of the damage, they are now living out of a storage room attached to their garage - the only building on their property not completely destroyed by flooding and storm surges. (James Ledford is a member of the fall 2005 pledge class and a legacy. His grandfather, Leo Rainey, was initiated into Sigma Nu in 1944 while attending Emory University.)
PROGRAM PROFILE
College of Chapters: Unity Circle

Day 3, College of Chapters
Friday, June 17, 2005

College of Chapters is Sigma Nu Fraternity's biennial leadership development conference. It is an intensive, interactive program for our undergraduate members focused on leadership, teambuilding, and the core principles of Sigma Nu.

Josh Wheeler, Commander at the University of Central Florida, attended College of Chapters in June. "The Unity Circle," says Josh, "took our experience at College of Chapters to a new level." It was one of the favorite activities during the conference and was conducted in small groups of 10-12 men.
Josh Wheeler
During the activity, each group member was given a piece of paper with many thought-provoking questions and asked to answer them in writing. The questions were personal and required participants to consider key events in their lives and things or people who have influenced their character.
NEWS FLASH
The Day the FBI Moved In. . .

Stranger things have happened. Who would have thought the FBI would turn a former fraternity house into their headquarters and a temporary home for almost 50 agents? The Sigma Nu house at the Baton Rouge campus of Louisiana State University had been sitting empty since 2004; it was in need of about $90,000 in repairs due to vandalism. In the aftermath of Katrina, vacant real estate was hard to come by in Baton Rouge, and more than 140 agents from the New Orleans FBI headquarters were displaced from their homes and offices.

The FBI renovated the house and some 50 agents have been calling our fraternity house "home". They jokingly refer to themselves as Phi Beta Iota, said Special Agent in Charge Jim Bernazzani, according to a September 27 article in the Baton Rouge Advocate. They even made T-shirts. Early reports say it could take at least 8 months to repair the damage done to the New Orleans FBI headquarters.
You Never Know When It Will Happen to You

Darrell Pike (Butler) was thankful to walk away from an August 13th helicopter crash at the Greenwood Municipal Airport in Indianapolis, Indiana.
 
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