Thanks to the hard work of Leadership and Education Consultant Joe Macko and former Leadership and Education Consultant Cory Loveless, Theta Chi is returning to the University of Minnesota where the Alpha Pi chapter closed in 1998.
The colonization ceremony was held at noon on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, at the University of Minnesotas Hanson Hall. Norwich Housing Corporation Secretary Paul Norstrem returned to his alma mater to preside over the pledging of 23 undergraduates.
Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life Director Matt Levine (Gamma Tau/Drake 2006), Foundation Chapter President David A. May, Associate Executive Director Ben Hill (of the International Headquarters) and more than 30 parents and alumni were also in attendance, as was Alpha Pi alumnus Carl Peterson (1984).
The University of Minnesota was founded as a preparatory school in 1851, seven years before Minnesota became a state. The school closed during the Civil War and reopened in 1867.
Today the University of Minnesota has a student population of 52,557, and is home to 34 fraternities and 17 sororities.