ATO News - April 20-29, 2005
Greek
Girls To Bump for La Conchita
April 29, 2005 - UC Santa Barbara Daily Nexus
Balls will fly as sorority girls, swimsuits and security guards come together on Saturday at Alpha Tau Omega's (ATO) All-Sorority Volleyball Tournament.
...22 teams of bikini-clad sorority girls will compete in the charity tournament at Greek Park and at several on-campus volleyball courts. ATO philanthropy co-chair Jeff Davidson said the all-day event will also feature a bikini contest...
MAKE-A-WISH:
Car show planned for UND campus
April 28, 2005 - Grand Forks Herald
Members of a UND fraternity and friends are shining up their rides so they can show off for a good cause. The Alpha Tau Omega house will put on a car show Saturday on the UND campus to help make a local 7-year-old boy's wish to see a NASCAR race and meet star Dale Earnhardt Jr. come true.
"I came up with the idea in September or October," Chris Boachut said. "I just wanted to do something big."...
A few years ago, ATO members raised about $6,500 to send a young boy to Disney World through the Make-A-Wish Foundation by soaking in a hot tub in the front yard of their house for days on end.
Greek Week
April 25, 2005 - Brown and White
...Grace Hall was filled with hundreds of people who paid to come to watch the Delta Gamma sorority and Alpha Tau Omega fraternity dance competition, the final event of the week Friday night...
Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity was the winner of the men's dance competition. Alpha Tau Omega fraternity took second place...
Opponents out
in the cold
April 25, 2005 - Indiana Statesman
As dedicated fans huddled together under heavy winter coats and warm blankets, Tandem teams, many dressed in spandex tops and shorts, rode their hearts out during the 75-lap race...
The pairing of Zeta Tau Alpha and Alpha Tau Omega began the race strong and lead for the first two laps...
Mr. Lehigh contest
April 24, 2005 - Brown and White
...The talent competition followed the swimwear portion of the show. Talents ranged from singing a Latin ballad to skating in a gorilla costume carrying an oversized inflatable banana. Alpha Tau Omega's Scott Fleckner, '08, incorporated other brothers in his house in an eclectic dance routine. Many of the routines involved singing and dancing...
Amber Lara
new SGA president
April 24, 2005 - Pine Log
...Prior to the election, Lara was fined $25 by the SGA Elections Committee for beginning her presidential campaign too early. SGA vice president and head of the Elections Committee Krystal Richardson, Katy senior, said Lara attended an Alpha Tau Omega meeting, distributed candy and said her name would be on the ballot before the official campaign start date...
Baylor To Hold Spring Premiere For Prospective Students
April 22, 2005 - Baylor University (press release) - Waco, Texas
Baylor University's [web/tickets/eBay] admission services and several student organizations will host hundreds of prospective students and their parents...
The premiere will wrap up in Waco Hall... with performances by current Baylor students, including two Sing acts by Alpha Tau Omega...
Investigation
censures two Greek houses
April 22, 2005 - Daily Pennsylvanian
... Three more fraternity chapters -- Phi Kappa Sigma, Alpha Chi Rho and Alpha Tau Omega -- are currently under investigation. ...
Alpha Tau Omega is currently under investigation for alleged assaults related to chapter activity. Alpha Tau Omega President Jared Noordyk could not be reached for comment. ...
ATO hosts free party
April 21, 2005 - Flor-Ala - Florence, AL
The fourth annual Caffeine High party, sponsored by Alpha Tau Omega, will be held this Friday night.
Montgomery's hottest party band, PipeDream, will play from 9 p.m.-midnight and DJ Brewer will go from midnight-2 a.m. Caffeine High 2005 will take place at the ATO house
Hauser, 76, former DTH editor
April 21, 2005 - The Daily Tar Heel
Charles McCorkle Hauser, former editor of The Daily Tar Heel and a longtime journalist, died Sunday in Chapel Hill...
In addition to teaching and writing, he stayed in touch with his Alpha Tau Omega fraternity brothers and served as an alumni adviser for the chapter...
Rose-Hulman recognizes 2001 NCHS graduate
April 21, 2005 - Carmel Topics
Michael Radigan was named Greek of the Year for his membership and support of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology [web/tickets] ...
Radigan served as public-relations coordinator, social chair and pledge class president...
Freshman strips during contest
April 21, 2005 - Brown and White
An underage, drunken Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity brother removed all of his clothes during the Mr. Lehigh competition...
In spite of Monday's rocky start, Greek Week continued this week and will end with the Delta Gamma sorority and Alpha Tau Omega fraternity dance competition tonight...
All profits from Mr. Lehigh [web/tickets] went to arthritis research...
Colgate
acquires Greek houses, few resist
April 21, 2005 - Daily Pennsylvanian
Drastic measures are being taken against the Greek community at Colgate University, but Penn officials say the likelihood of the University [web/tickets] ever following suit is unlikely. Fraternities and sororities at Colgate are being forced to sell their houses to the university by next fall. If they do not comply, the chapters will lose university recognition...
Some fraternities have been far more than reluctant. Three chapters -- Delta Kappa Epsilon, Alpha Tau Omega and Kappa Delta Rho -- have elected not to sell. ...
A thrilling good time: ATO, KKG win Greek Week lip-sync contest
April 20, 2005 - Simpsonian
Not since the Ashlee Simpson debacle has there been so much lip-syncing in one place. ...
Sophomore Allison Chapin participated in the lip-sync for Kappa Kappa Gamma. She said her team, made up of members of KKG and Alpha Tau Omega, practiced its dance every night for a week and a half...
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