First off, welcome to the updated website for Theta-Lambda Zeta of Lambda Chi Alpha at Simpson College! We are excited to be taking strides to improve our public relations, easily inform the public of our events, philanthropic efforts, and our mission as brothers of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity. This blog is one step of many that will help us do so.
The main purpose of this blog is to help us get our information out to the local community, but also other chapters and groups nationwide. An additional use for the blog will be to allow us to interact with anyone who comments/responds much more easily than ever before. With interaction comes conversations and possibilities for relationships to form. We will be posting weekly about events and how they went, the current state of our chapter, changes we plan to make and have made, and who we are and how we plan to improve each other, our campus and community. There will also be periodic “interviews” and other dialogues that occur that we feel are important to share. In this post, we will simply be posting to ensure our publishing is running smoothly, but also that our message is being heard and responded to.
Now for the actual blog post, a brief history and background on Lambda Chi Alpha as an international fraternity, as well as our chapter at Simpson College. In 1909, Warren A. Cole, along with several other young men, vowed to start a social fraternity at Boston University. Within a year, there was a written Initiation Ritual, with that came three more chapters in the Massachusetts/Pennsylvania area. Fast forward to 1972 and Lambda Chi Alpha officially adopts “associate membership,” the first inter/national to do so. Associate membership replaces the term “pledge” when referring to a new member. Associate membership allows new members to vote in meetings, as well as hold any High Zeta office. Also in 1972, Lambda Chi Alpha becomes the first fraternity to abolish pledging in order to promote an anti-hazing culture in its chapters.
At Simpson College, the Theta-Lambda Zeta was established in 1924 and has never been dormant. Our chapter was originally a Theta Kappa Nu chapter. In 1939, Theta Kappa Nu and Lambda Chi Alpha merged together to form one large fraternity that had the same values. Because our chapter was already established before the merger, we were allowed to keep one of the parts of Theta Kappa Nu in our Zeta designation, hence THETA-Lambda Zeta. It just worked out that we got the Theta from TKN and the Lambda from LCA. Recently in our existence at Simpson College, the school has adopted Lambda Chi Alpha’s anti-hazing policy for all of its groups and organizations.
Stay tuned for weekly updates on chapter operations, events and future possibilities for interaction. Thank you for taking time to read (and hopefully respond with suggestions) our new blog. Please feel free to share and comment on the post as well as encourage others to do so.
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about Lambda Chi Alpha, Theta-Lambda Zeta, or our future content, please feel free to reach out to Matt Lash, our VP of External Affairs, at [email protected] or (319)-431-7687. You can also follow us on our social media accounts (posted on this website homepage).
The main purpose of this blog is to help us get our information out to the local community, but also other chapters and groups nationwide. An additional use for the blog will be to allow us to interact with anyone who comments/responds much more easily than ever before. With interaction comes conversations and possibilities for relationships to form. We will be posting weekly about events and how they went, the current state of our chapter, changes we plan to make and have made, and who we are and how we plan to improve each other, our campus and community. There will also be periodic “interviews” and other dialogues that occur that we feel are important to share. In this post, we will simply be posting to ensure our publishing is running smoothly, but also that our message is being heard and responded to.
Now for the actual blog post, a brief history and background on Lambda Chi Alpha as an international fraternity, as well as our chapter at Simpson College. In 1909, Warren A. Cole, along with several other young men, vowed to start a social fraternity at Boston University. Within a year, there was a written Initiation Ritual, with that came three more chapters in the Massachusetts/Pennsylvania area. Fast forward to 1972 and Lambda Chi Alpha officially adopts “associate membership,” the first inter/national to do so. Associate membership replaces the term “pledge” when referring to a new member. Associate membership allows new members to vote in meetings, as well as hold any High Zeta office. Also in 1972, Lambda Chi Alpha becomes the first fraternity to abolish pledging in order to promote an anti-hazing culture in its chapters.
At Simpson College, the Theta-Lambda Zeta was established in 1924 and has never been dormant. Our chapter was originally a Theta Kappa Nu chapter. In 1939, Theta Kappa Nu and Lambda Chi Alpha merged together to form one large fraternity that had the same values. Because our chapter was already established before the merger, we were allowed to keep one of the parts of Theta Kappa Nu in our Zeta designation, hence THETA-Lambda Zeta. It just worked out that we got the Theta from TKN and the Lambda from LCA. Recently in our existence at Simpson College, the school has adopted Lambda Chi Alpha’s anti-hazing policy for all of its groups and organizations.
Stay tuned for weekly updates on chapter operations, events and future possibilities for interaction. Thank you for taking time to read (and hopefully respond with suggestions) our new blog. Please feel free to share and comment on the post as well as encourage others to do so.
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about Lambda Chi Alpha, Theta-Lambda Zeta, or our future content, please feel free to reach out to Matt Lash, our VP of External Affairs, at [email protected] or (319)-431-7687. You can also follow us on our social media accounts (posted on this website homepage).