Husband-and-wife writing team are making
"Other Plans" to solidify career in filmmaking
Director and Chairman, Communications, Iowa Beta Alumni Association
Eric Anderson (IABE ’92) and his wife, Amelia Dellos, are celebrating the release of their new feature film, Other Plans. And the writing/producing team said the film’s production was a small miracle when you take into consideration the budget and constraints it faced.
Budgets for independent films today hover in the $500,000 range, which means you have no choice but to move fast.
“It was a low-budget film we originally had written for Chicago, but when Producer/Director Joe Eckardt and his financiers asked us to rewrite it for NYC, we did.
“Low-budget films have a short shoot schedule, so you need to be able to adapt and think on your feet. For instance, since this is a reversal on the Cinderella story, a central scene required a horse-drawn carriage. But when it came time to film, it was 110 degrees in the shade in New York and for the safety of the horses, no carriages were allowed to run. At the last minute, Joe was able to wrangle a classic white Rolls Royce that ended up being perfect for the scene. We also had a restaurant location pull out at the last minute and had to magically turn a wine bar into a hot dog stand. Luckily, when you are working low budget, everyone is very invested to do whatever it takes to see the project through so they become expert problem-solvers.”
Like production, the script was created at a high rate of speed.
“I came home one day in 2004 and Amelia had come up with the idea and had written 70 pages of Other Plans in one afternoon,” Anderson said. “We finished it together and my manager at the time shopped it around a bit, but nothing really came of it.”
They put the script on the back-burner until, in 2010, another of Eric’s former manager’s clients was forming a new company and was in search of scripts. He remembered reading Other Plans and when he found out it was still available, he jumped. After a few fits and starts, in 2012, pre-production on the film began in earnest, with filming in the summer of 2013.
The movie stars Jamie Kennedy (Scream), Rebecca Blumhagen (The Girl’s Guide to Depravity), Malik Yoba (Empire), Michael Kostroff (The Wire) and Thomas Beaudoin. It’s a romantic comedy that centers on a young female executive (Blumhagen) who’s rigid life plan is challenged when mistakes for her building’s maintenance man (Kennedy) for an eccentric billionaire (Beaudoin), and falls in love.
The film has already been released on-line release on iTunes, Google Play and at the otherplansmovie.com website. It will appear later this summer on Amazon Instant and will be available on DVD through Amazon as well. Cable and satellite on-demand and Netflix releases will happen later this year.
To make ends meet, Anderson still holds a day job as a graphic designer for London-based marketing intelligence firm Mintel. After years in marketing, his wife is writing and producing full time, and Anderson hopes to make the leap soon.
Anderson graduated from Burlington (IA) High School where his father, Larry Anderson, was a high school math teacher (he was in his father’s statistics class). His mother, Gaye Anderson, worked with hearing impaired students via the Area Education Agency (AEA). They retired and opened Savannah Fine Linens in Savanna, GA, before moving the business to online-only to join his younger sister, Claire, and her family in Oregon.
Anderson attended the University of Iowa as an open major to try and figure out the direction that made the most sense to him. He declared his major in communications and took a number of film, acting and art classes, but found that the classes he was most interested in involved writing.
“After my fourth year at Iowa, I realized I’d taken so many writing courses that the fastest path to a degree was English, which is what it says on my diploma. So after Iowa, I had to look for work and I knew I would not be opening the newspaper and scanning want ads for English majors.
“So I ended up going to Baxter Springs, KS where I had a lot of family and I worked on the The Baxter Springs Citizen newspaper. It was a tiny office. I laid out the paper, drew cartoons, everything… it was little crazy.”
The path to film production was a long road. He wrote his first screenplay at 22, while working at the newspaper but there was no inertia behind it. Anderson worked as the graphics specialist in marketing and public relations for small companies in Des Moines and Chicago. He wrote and published short stories sporadically but it was not until he met Dellos that he began to look at screenwriting in earnest. At the time of their meeting, he was a 30-year-old marketing director for a commercial real estate developer.
“We were both out separately with friends one night when we bumped into each other,” he said.
Dellos was working with an internet start-up at the time, but it was when she mentioned she was taking a screenwriting class that Anderson lit up and wouldn’t leave her alone.
“Two years later, we got married.”
Dellos, who is on the board of the Independent Film Project Chicago (IFP Chicago), shared her husband’s interest in writing. She was the catalyst that motivated him to sit down and write screenplays.
“My writing habits are to sit down and parse over all the sentences and make sure the puzzle all fits together, where Amelia can just sit down and write pages and pages.
While writing my first real screenplay, I kept popping up to ask her ‘where I should I put this and that’ and she would tell me to just go back to the computer and finish writing it,” Anderson said. “And that is what I needed. Once you finish the first piece, then it becomes easier to finish the second and third one. You learn that you have the ability to complete a project.”
Anderson’s career path started with high school graduation in 1988. He applied only to Iowa, stepped onto the campus in the fall of that year and took a dorm room in Burge Hall. Other than a couple of friends from Burlington, Anderson did not know a lot of people on campus.
It was not until his sophomore year that Anderson gave Greek life consideration.
“My freshman year, I met twins, Brad and Brian Bohan (both IABE '93) and their friend, Matt Perry (IABE '92),” Anderson said. “One of them lived on the same floor as me. In the fall of our sophomore year, they wanted to rush and I went along with it and ended up really enjoying the experience. In the end, we all ended up pledging SAE.”
Much like having a sole interest in Iowa, Anderson only wrote SAE down on his bid sheet.
“SAE was not the most established fraternity at the time but they were the guys I was the most comfortable being around,” Anderson said. “There was a laid-back and relatable quality to them. The rush system can be a bit overwhelming and it can feel like walking onto a car lot and all of the salesmen coming to you at the same time. However, it was not like that at the SAE house. I felt like I was having actual conversations with people. Like me, the Bohans and Perry also only wanted to join SAE."
Anderson lived in Pentacrest Apartments his sophomore year when he pledged and became an active, then moved into the SAE house the summer of 1990 before his junior year began. He lived in The Lodge on Dubuque Street his junior and senior years and then finished in Pentacrest apartments for one semester before graduating in December of 1992.
Anderson said that one of the people who rushed him that made a strong impression was Tom Hubner (IABE '92) and another was Steve Carey (IABE '92), who became Anderson’s pledge dad. Anderson was initiated into the fraternity on Feb. 10, 1990 and received SAE badge number 218444.
“I have no life-long dorm friends but most of the people I still stay in contact with I met through SAE,” Anderson said.
“The dorm/fraternity experience is night and day. In the dorm experience, you are thrown into a group of people and in the fraternity scenario; you are choosing the group of people.”
Anderson emphasized that one of the reasons the SAE experience has a life-long effect is because of the common traditions and values that are passed down and shared through the generations. Anderson said he formed strong relationships during his days at The Lodge. “I still keep up online with a lot of guys, and I still meet up regularly with Mike Andre (IABE '93), Jason Feehan (IABE '95) and Chris Pauly (IABE '96).
Sense of humor plays a big part in my friendships, and when you’re sharing the college experience, being able to laugh together goes a long way to bond you. I also tend to gravitate toward honest, decent human beings, which all of them are.”
Two of his brothers, Andre and Kevin Olchawa (IABE '94) (who died from cancer in 2006), served as co-best men at his wedding on March 30, 2002 at Unity Temple in Oak Park.
Anderson said one his most vivid memories as an undergraduate was the pledge skip to Ole Miss.
“A bunch of us piled in a vehicle and rode down to Oxford and stayed in the SAE house,” he recalled. “The SAE guys down there were very welcoming. One night we went to this old gin mill that had been converted into a bar. There was music playing and people were actually allowed to dance on the tables. It was a blast and very memorable weekend.”
Dellos and Anderson want to continue to build on their career as a writing/producing team and they have several projects under way.
In 2011, they formed Corn Bred Films and their first project was a documentary that Dellos wrote, produced and directed that centers on Bertha and Potter Palmer, who were the king and queen of merchant Chicago in the latter part of the 19th century. Potter was a dry goods tycoon and Real Estate mogul and is known as the Father of State Street. That endeavor led to her being hired to write a play about the Palmers.
“Amelia comes up with ideas I would never think of and when we put our skills together, we produce better projects. Case in point is our next film, Oriole Park.”
Oriole Park was inspired by Amelia’s childhood, where she grew up three blocks away from the home of notorious serial killer, John Wayne Gacy. Gacy, known as “The Killer Clown” sexually assaulted and murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978 inside of his home. The story is based on Dellos’ childhood and the Gacy horror is the backdrop.
Anderson has been busy producing the film and assembling all of the pieces to get Oriole Park to filming. One of the actresses involved in this project is Joey King, who played Ramona Quimby in 2010’s Ramona and Beezus. The cast also includes Joel Murray (who played Fred Rumsen in Mad Men) and Christian Stolte (Chicago Fire), who will play Gacy. The Gaslight Anthem’s lead singer/songwriter, Brian Fallon, is signed to score the film.
“We hope to be able to shoot this movie in October or November of this year,” Anderson said. “We just need to get all the investors lined up. By producing Oriole Park ourselves this time, we’re looking to show exactly what we’re capable of.”
When Anderson and Dellos founded Corn Bred Films the goal was to find, use and keep talent and production in the Midwest. Part of their thought process is to avoid filming in New York and L.A. as these locations are overused.
“The Chicago film and television industry keeps growing,” he said. “So the hope is that Oriole Park brings enough buzz that we can continue to work on projects in this area instead of having to go to Los Angeles.”
Anderson said that the University of Iowa and the SAE experience gave him the building blocks to formulate a successful career in film.
“I was always able to get into the classes I wanted,” he said. “It also allowed me to chase everything I desired, and I felt like I had the opportunity to figure out who I was.
“Being a part of an organization like SAE gives you a set of shared experiences and bonds that will carry you later in life,” he said. “You develop a confidence and a sense of how being a part of a community can enhance your world, which is essential in filmmaking. While there may only be a few names on a poster, the number of people it takes to make a movie is crazy.”
Anderson and Dellos now reside in River Forest, IL and have a 9-year-old daughter, Alena. You can find them on-line at www.cornbredfilms.com.
New Supreme Council elected to two-year term
Five men were elected to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Supreme Council at the June convention in Newport Beach and it will be headed by Steve Churchill, a 1985 Iowa State graduate. In addition, Blaine Ayers was re-elected as Eminent Supreme Recorder.
The Convention is the highest ranking body of the fraternity and it determines the Fraternity Laws and elects Supreme Council members to serve as its Board of Trustees between Conventions. Here is a brief rundown on Churchill and the other five men elected, who will serve until the 2017 Boston Convention.
Eminent Supreme Archon: Steve Churchill (Iowa State ’85), a resident of Washington, DC, was initiated into the Iowa Gamma chapter and served as its Eminent Archon. Churchill graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1985 and earned a master’s degree with honors in nonprofit administration at North Park University in Chicago, where he currently serves on the advisory board.
He is the President and CEO of the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy, an international professional organization dedicated to developing men and women who encourage charity for nonprofit hospitals and healthcare organizations.
Previously, he was Executive Director of the American Medical Association Foundation and Vice President of Development and Alumni Relations at Des Moines University.
His professional career spans both the public and private sectors. In addition to serving three terms in the Iowa legislature and working for Governor Terry Branstad, he started a fundraising consulting firm and was named Vice President of Mid-America Group.
Churchill was first elected to the Supreme Council in 2007. For more than two decades, he was on the Iowa Gamma House Corporation, leading an effort to raise $2 million for his chapter. He served as chapter adviser and chairman of the alumni advisory board and is a charter member and past president of both the Iowa Gamma and Central Iowa Alumni Associations.
Eminent Supreme Deputy Archon:Tom Dement (Middle Tennessee State 1990) pledged the Tennessee Beta chapter at Middle Tennessee State University in the fall of 1987 and was initiated in the spring of 1988.
As an undergraduate, he served his chapter as Risk Manager, Recruitment Chairman and Eminent Preceptor, a role he still continues to fill in Province Iota and throughout the Realm. He also served in many leadership positions with the Interfraternity Council, including President. On a national level, he was appointed to serve as an undergraduate member of the first Permanent Committee on Risk Management. Dement earned Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration degrees from Middle Tennessee State University and a law degree from Samford University in Birmingham, AL.
After law school, he served for one year as a judicial law clerk in the 16th Judicial District of Tennessee. He currently is a partner with Leitner, Williams, Dooley & Napolitan, PLLC, a regional law firm with five offices throughout the Southeast.
Dement’s areas of practice include general civil litigation, intellectual property litigation, insurance defense, employment law, corporate and commercial litigation and corporate and business transactions.
He is a past Province Iota Archon, a position he held from 1998-2007, and was the Chairman of the Council of Province Archons from 2004 – 2007. He is also a past Chairman of both the Permanent Committee on the Ritual and the Permanent Committee on Fraternity Laws and has served on the Leadership School faculty on numerous occasions.
Dement has served as chapter adviser for several groups in Province Iota and has held positions of leadership with the Tennessee Beta Alumni Association and Tennessee Beta Housing Corporation.
Eminent Supreme Warden:Greg Brandt pledged Iowa Delta at Drake University in the fall of 1983 and was initiated in the spring of 1984. As a pledge, he was elected Eminent Deputy Archon for the chapter.
Brandt earned a BBA with majors in accounting and corporate finance. After graduation, Brandt attended Drake University Law School and was elected Student Body President. After law school, he served as a judicial law clerk for the 8th Judicial District for the State of Iowa. Brandt was an Assistant Polk County Attorney specializing in the area of drug and gang prosecution.
In 1995, he went into private practice in a general-litigation law firm and, three years later, was appointed as a District Associate Judge for the Fifth Judicial District of the State of Iowa. At the time, Brandt was the youngest District Associate Judge in the state. He is past Province Tau Archon, a position he held from 1999-2007.
Brandt was the Chairman of the Council of Province Archons from 2001-2003. He has served on the Permanent Committee on Fraternity Laws for many years and as the chairman of the Convention Committee on Fraternity Laws twice. Brandt has served on faculty for the John O. Moseley and several province Leadership Schools. Furthermore, he has been Chapter Adviser for Iowa Delta for many years and has held several positions on the Iowa Delta Alumni Association and house corporation boards.
At the 2007 Convention in Washington D.C., Brandt was elected as a director for the Financial & Housing Corporation, where he served as the secretary for two-and-a-half years. Brandt is a Founder Member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation. He is a two-time recipient of the Order of the Lion and received the Merit Key in 2004. He has also been selected as an Outstanding Chapter Adviser.
Eminent Supreme Herald:Mike Corelli pledged and was initiated into the Illinois Gamma chapter as part of its phoenix colony in 1998. He held many roles in the chapter, most notably as three-term Eminent Archon.
Corelli served the Fraternity on the national level as a Leadership School Staff member, undergraduate representative on the National Fraternity Laws Committee and undergraduate liaison of the Province Mu Council.
Corelli received his bachelor’s degree in health administration from Northern Illinois University in 2001 and, in 2009, he earned his master’s degree in education with a focus on college student personnel from Western Carolina University. Currently, he serves as Director of the Office of Leadership and Student Involvement at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, NC, where he oversees the operations of fraternity and sorority life, student clubs and organizations, campus programming/activities and is directly responsible for teaching and advising for academic leadership classes.
He has been recognized by the school as Student Organization Advisor of the Year, Outstanding University Staff Member in the Division of Student Affairs and University Administrator Employee of the Year and is a member of the University’s Strategic Planning Committee.
In 2001, Corelli joined the Fraternity Service Center staff and aided in the growth of the organization and in chapter development for six years. As the Director of Extension and Chapter Development, he oversaw the addition of 54 new and phoenix colonies across the Realm as well as the overall chapter development, recruitment, risk management and expansion of the brotherhood.
As an alumnus, Corelli served in various roles, including both Illinois Gamma and North Carolina Omega Chapter Adviser, faculty member for both province and regional Leadership Schools and faculty member for the John O. Moseley Leadership School since 2001. He also served as Province Omicron Archon, member of the National Education Advisory Council and chairman of the National Recruitment Committee.
Eminent Supreme Chronicler: Mike Rodgers pledged Virginia Kappa at The College of William & Mary in 1990. He served his chapter in several roles, including Eminent Deputy Archon and Special Events Chairman.
He graduated in 1992, where he earned a bachelor’s degree with honors in public policy. In 1996, he graduated from Emory University’s School of Law with a juris doctorate degree.
Rodgers is a Partner of Seyfarth Shaw LLP, a full-service, international law firm whose clients include more than 300 of the Fortune 500 companies. Rodgers leads his firm’s residential- and resort-development group. In addition to real estate, his practice includes corporate law, with a focus on charitable and non-profit organizations.
He has contributed to the development of his law firm’s highly acclaimed SeyfarthLean client service model and is a certified Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt. Rodgers has served as an adjunct law professor at the University of Georgia’s School of Law.
His service to the Fraternity includes serving as President and Director for SAE Financial & Housing Corporation, Province Epsilon-Alpha Archon, Province Epsilon Archon, Virginia Kappa Alumni Association President, Greater Atlanta Alumni Association Director and Georgia Phi Chapter Adviser.
He served on faculty for the John O. Moseley Leadership School and for numerous regional and province Leadership Schools. Rodgers also served on committees for the 2010 Strategic Plan, 2011 ESR Search and 2012 Tri-Board Legal Audit. He has drafted numerous Fraternity laws and policies, including the law establishing the Fraternity’s reserve accounts, and co-authored the Good Samaritan Policy.
He is the recipient of the Merit Key, Order of Minerva, Order of the Lion and Province Archon of the Year Awards. He also is the recipient of the Bob Cousins Zeal Award for his sustained contributions to the Greater Atlanta Alumni Association. During his tenure as President, Virginia Kappa was bestowed with the Most Improved and the Most Outstanding Chapter Alumni Association Awards. For 22 consecutive years, Rodgers has donated to the Foundation and is a Phoenix Society member.
Rodgers hails from Staunton, VA and now resides in Atlanta his wife, Merideth and daughter, Harper.
Eminent Supreme Recorder: Blaine K. "Boomer" Ayers serves as SAE’s 13th ESR, taking office in December 2011. The ESR works under the direction of the Supreme Council and is the Executive Director of the Fraternity.
He became a member of the Fraternity in the fall of 1997 while attending the University of Kentucky. He is a graduate of the 64th John O. Moseley Leadership School in 1999. While at Kentucky Epsilon, Ayers served in numerous roles, including Eminent Deputy Archon and IFC President. He was awarded Greek Man of the Year, Homecoming King and the W. T. Young Outstanding Contribution Award while at UK. He is also a member of Order of Omega and Omicron Delta Kappa honor societies.
After graduating in 2001 with a degree in history, Ayers became a teacher and a coach at Trinity High School in Louisville. During his five-year coaching career, he was on staff for four state titles in football and one in track.
Ayers became the youngest teacher, and the earliest in his tenure, to earn Teacher of the Year at Trinity in his second year of teaching. During that time, he also obtained his master’s degree in education from Spalding University and was given the Outstanding Graduate Student Award from the school.
Ayers left Trinity in December of 2006 for a brief stint as an Assistant Dean of Students at his alma mater. In 2007, he joined the Fraternity Service Center as a Regional Director and served as the Associate Executive Director of Chapter and Alumni Services from May 2009 to November 2011.
He is married to Brooke Phillips and has four daughters.
QUIZ ANSWER: Jason Castro
Jason Castro is the starting catcher for the Houston Astros. He was born in the appropriately named Castro Valley, CA. He played high school baseball at Castro Valley High School and played college baseball at Stanford University where he was initiated into Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
He was named the club's most valuable player his junior year.He played in the Cape Cod League during the summer of 2007 and was selected by the Astros in the first round (tenth overall) of the 2008 Major League Baseball Draft.
On June 20, 2010, Castro was called up to the Houston Astros from Class AAA Round Rock (near Austin, TX) Express. He made his MLB debut that day at Minute Maid Park against the San Francisco Giants. He singled off Tim Lincecum in his first career at-bat.Castro hit his first major league home run on June 24, 2010 against Matt Cain.
After the 2013 season, Castro completed the degree that he had started at Stanford. When he was drafted, he was 25 credits shy of the degree. He had returned to Stanford in the 2010 offseason to begin taking the rest of the courses, but he was delayed somewhat by rehabilitation from his 2011 injury.Before the 2014 season, Castro signed a one-year contract with the Astros worth $2.45 million.
Did You Know?
American Pharoah, the thoroughbred that won the 2015 Kentucky Derby, the 2015 Preakness Stakes and the 2015 Belmont Stakes, was trained by an SAE?
Bob Baffert, an SAE alumnus from the University of Arizona, broke the 37-year-old Triple Crown drought when his colt, American Pharoah won at the Belmont Stakes.
The win was the fourth attempt at a Triple Crown for Baffert, who at age 62 became the second-oldest trainer to win a Triple Crown.
Baffert and Pharoah won the 141st Kentucky Derby, bringing his total number of victories in the race to four; Baffert also ran third-place finisher, the previously undefeated colt Dortmund.
Baffert is currently tied for second place with D. Wayne Lukas for most wins by a trainer in the Derby.
American Pharoah next won the 140th Preakness Stakes, making six victories for Baffert; who also finished fourth with Dortmund.
American Pharoah accomplished what 13 prior horses who’d won both the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes since 1978 haven’t been able to do. Horse racing has been waiting too long for the next Affirmed.
For more than a generation, 90,000 fans have filed out of the Belmont. But not on this day in early June.
Instead, after American Pharoah clinched it, other jockeys held up their cell phones on the side of the track, to take a snap of the historic victor trotting by. Security guards who’ve been working at Belmont Park for more than 30 years cried in the winner’s circle, according to a story by Sean Gregory in Time.
Down in the depths of the racetrack, more than an hour after this race, Baffert kept watching the. Even on TV, he could feel the thunder. “Just listen to that crowd,” he was quoted in Time.
The horse won by 5.5 lengths.
The Triple Crown win was a celebration of a once-in-a-generation athlete, and a respected leader who finally won his sport’s elusive prize.
Gregory said afterward, Baffert was reported to have talked about the hundreds of texts he had already gotten from around the world.
Though horses make money in race, its breeding where serious dollars can amount. It’s hard to put an exact value on American Pharoah’s stud fee just yet. The figure may range from $100,000 to $150,000, according to Reiley McDonald, with Eaton Sales, a thoroughbred consulting firm.
Gregory's story summed it up best:
Someone asked Baffert about his plans for the next few days. “Well, I was prepared for an ass-kicking and to go home,” he says. Instead, he’ll be sticking around New York, and was off to a champagne celebration. He and his horse are the toast of the city. The toast of sports.
Tailgate event is slated for Sept. 19 at Kinnick
Want to have some fun and meet up with your SAE brothers this fall? You can enjoy pregame festivities on September 19 when the Iowa Hawkeyes host the Pitt Panthers at Kinnick Stadium.
Preparations are under way for the The Iowa Beta Alumni Association Tailgate. You can bring your family, join your fraternity brothers and meet new friends!
Cocktails and food will be served.
Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. The tailgate time is yet to be determined so for now, please make note of this on your calendar. We will pass on more details as they develop.
Why Hawkeye football recruiting is on the rise
There were only four players committed to the Iowa football team at the beginning of June and were sitting the bottom of the Big Ten recruiting rankings. That had plenty of the faithful on edge.
The Hawks now have 16 players committed, the most in the school's history at this time. Why the surge?
Austin Kreber of isports web reported there are a couple of reasons.
1. Iowa is now getting deep into their summer recruiting camps and recruiting has been trending for early commitments for a while.
2. Recruits have been drooling over Iowa’s long-awaited football facilities and have talked about how high tech and amazing they are.
3. The biggest reason is new recruiting coordinator Seth Wallace.
Wallace has really put in work this summer. He came on late last spring so he didn’t have too much work with the previous recruiting class. He has continued with mailing letters and making the recruits feel wanted. But the real game-change is the new mentality Wallace has instilled.
Previously, the Hawkeyes did not mail that many scholarship offers, Kreber reported... instead the program held onto them. Now, the Hawkeyes are sending them out fast and furiously. Instead of just assuming that a recruit will deny them right away so they don’t pursue them, they are sending them a scholarship anyways.
The big difference Wallace has brought to the table is his proficiency with technology and social media. Instead of just writing letters and calling recruits, he has been using tons of social media with this class. He has been tweeting non-stop about his class. He also has put an incredible amount of work in sending pictures of the players photo-shopped in Hawkeye uniforms.
Kreber pointed out that Iowa may not be receiving the highest quality of recruits, but the program is now at least trying to get those recruits.
According to Rivals.com Iowa has the 25th best recruiting class in the nation, Kreber reported.
Sure, Iowa having 16 commitments helps bevy that ranking, but Iowa hasn’t sniffed the top 25 in the past five or six years, so this is drastic improvement. Iowa most likely won’t finish with a top 25 class, but they won’t be at the bottom of the Big Ten.
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SAE and other Greeks will colonize at LSU
Sigma Alpha Epsilon will be one of several fraternities and sororities that will colonize on the LSU campus this fall. SAE will be a "Phoenix Colony" when it returns to campus.
Joining SAE will be fraternities Beta Theta Pi, Delta Tau Delta and Alpha Tau Omega and sororities Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Chi Omega and Gamma Phi Beta.
In fall 2014, the Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Council voted to open their doors for expansion.
SAE served a two-year recession of university registration because of an incident that violated the school policy,
Missouri heads toward stricter Greek guidelines
University of Missouri fraternities in the Interfraternity Council (IFC) will say goodbye to hard liquor in all fraternity houses in the fall, according to a story by UM student Rose Schmidt, who was published on a USA Today web page.
She spoke to Parker Briden, IFC vice president of public relations at Mizzou.
This decision comes in light of the MU Fraternity Alumni Consortium’s list of proposals for improving the “safety of women students in fraternity houses” and limiting the potential number of sexual assaults on campus. These proposals include prohibiting women guests in fraternity houses between 10 p.m. and 3 a.m. on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, forbidding out-of-town social events and formals, outlawing hard alcohol and implementing mandatory drug testing for all Greek members.
Briden said the IFC does not support all of the consortium's proposals as they currently stand.
“We don’t like what most of them are — with the exception of the alcohol policy — in their first form,” Briden said. “I kind of think it’s the wrong direction to go, but we don’t want students to be in a panic and think that these are the new policies without amendment.”
The council will be changing some of its own policies sometime during the fall 2015 semester.
“While alcohol doesn’t necessarily cause sexual assault, it’s definitely a contributing factor,” Briden says. “So, in order to try and discourage people from binge-drinking, we’re going to be banning hard liquor in all fraternity houses and having a system that allows for people to drink beer and wine.”
Three SAE undergrads honored with NIC award
Three members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon received the Undergraduate Award of Distinction, handed out by the North-American Interfraternity Conference.
The NIC seeks to recognize outstanding contributions to the fraternal movement.
In a year where a record number of nominations were received, SAE took home three of the nine undergrad awards.
The Undergraduate Award of Distinction seeks to recognize fraternity men who have found in their experience an outlet for developing as both a leader and a better man. The recipients strive to embody the values of their fraternity and will expect the same from those with whom they associate.
The 2015 recipients combine for a cumulative GPA of 3.89, leadership roles ranging from student body and chapter president to member of the state House of Representatives, and extensive community service that demonstrates the values of fraternity. The 2015 recipients are:
- Anish Sharma – Sigma Nu, University of Mississippi
- Anthony Naquin – Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Nicholls State University
- David Lynch – Kappa Alpha Order, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
- Elliott Wiegman – Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Jeremy Terman – Sigma Chi, University of Missouri
- Jesse Brown – Kappa Alpha Order, Midwestern State University
- Joseph Sweeney – Phi Mu Delta, University of New Hampshire
- Logan Stanger – Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Ball State University
- Marlan James Golden -- Alpha Tau Omega, University of Alabama
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