Alpha Delta hosted a dodgeball game on Aug. 27 from 6-8 p.m. at the Student Recreation and Wellness Center (SRWC). There were more than 10 people joining the game which gave a space for students interested in the fraternity.
Greek lettered organization includes sorority and fraternity to build a relationship of a lifetime. Alpha Delta is one of them. According to the fraternity website, “Alpha Deltas have the ability to govern their own house, make their own rules and decisions in a democratic fashion central to our values, and answer to no ‘national fraternity.’”
Elijah Phelps, sophomore medical laboratory science major, is the recruitment chair in the fraternity and helped in organizing the event, alongside Luke Nelson, the president of Alpha Delta.
Phelps joined Alpha Delta last October and talked on how it stood out from other fraternities.
“It is a very accepting place,” Phelps said. “We are accepting of people who are gay, people who […] just expressing themselves totally.”
Phelps shared his goal for the dodgeball event.
“So, it was a recruitment event to hopefully get some new people interested,” Phelps said. “As of right now, there is one of those in there, it is a new people that was interested.”
This was Alpha Delta’s second event of the semester, followed by playing volleyball at their house over the summer.
“Hopefully in the next coming weeks we will have a full week where we do four or five events throughout that week,” Phelps said. “We call it Rush Week where we just try to — it is like this event, like the recruitment event, but there is just a lot more of them.”
Zaven Crupper, sophomore forensic chemistry major, is the scholarship chair who joined the fraternity more than a year ago. He talked more about the event.
“We are just doing it [dodgeball] for fun,” Crupper said. “We invited a few potential members to join and it’s just an opportunity to see like [..] what we are all about.”
Crupper talked about his first impression joining the fraternity.
“My first impression was this is not like that stereotypical animal house fraternity,” Crupper said. “We are a bunch of sweet guys that are all just hanging out, having fun and support each other.”
Another member, Kenton Tisdale, freshman exploratory major, shared his experience on how he found Alpha Delta.
“I actually had a friend that was in Alpha Delta and I was hanging out with him a lot,” Tisdale said. “The first time I met the president, he recruited me.”
Joining the fraternity has built character among the members. Crupper shared how he overcame his low self esteem by getting to know members in the fraternity and making connections. Crupper shared one of his memories in Alpha Delta.
“Last year, around my birthday, a group of the guys, they baked me a cake and they all sang happy birthday,” Crupper said. “And growing up, I had like one birthday party ever really. I mean my parents always got me gifts and stuff but I never had a party so it was just really nice having the guys just do that for me.”
The fraternity had their first chapter meeting on Aug. 25. Tisdale shared his experience on it.
“…We basically have dinner together, talk about stuff, have dinner with alumni, it is all just a really fun thing,” Tisdale said. “They [members] have helped me out a lot as a freshman knowing things so I didn’t come into this school year a little confused…”
The event was a volunteering activity for the fraternity’s members and many joined the event for fun.
“It was just a post in the group chat and people who wanted to show up showed up,” Crupper said. “A lot of people did because we all like each other, we like to hang out.”
Crupper disclosed a future event from Alpha Delta to be a car wash on Sep. 23 for charity. To learn more about Alpha Delta, students can watch this video.
Edited by Arohi Rai
