Cliff Alexander Office of Fraternity & Sorority Life & Leadership
A Greek Community Bicentennial Moment...
Each Week we will feature a Greek Community Bicentennial Moment in honor of this great milestone.
Carly Jones, member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Lambda Mu Chapter, will sing the National Anthem at Graduation 2009.
The Order of Omega, Gamma Psi Chapter was established at Miami University in 1981. The Order of Omega is a National honorary for recognizing outstanding scholars and leaders of the Greek Community. Nationally, The Order of Omega is celebrating its 50th Anniversary. The Order of Omega was founded at the University of Miami in the fall of 1959 by a group of outstanding fraternity men, who felt that individuals in the Greek Community should be recognized for their service to the fraternity system and the university.
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Delta Sigma Epsilon National sorority was founded at Miami University in 1914. The Alpha Chapter established in September 1914. Dean Harvey C. Minnich, of the College of Education, selected several young students to form this organization. He selected them based on their academic records and character. These seven ladies were Marie Cropper, Ruth Gabler, Josephine McIntire, Virginia Stark, Charlotte Stark, Opal Warning, and Louise Wolfe. Delta Sigma Epsilon had 12 chapters when it merged with Delta Zeta in 1956.
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Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States of America is an 1852 graduate of Miami University, Harrison was a member of Phi Delta Theta.
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An excerpt from "Dr. Shriver's Miami History Highlights", Fall 2008 Miamian
Snowball rebellion
In January 1848, Miami was the fourth largest college in the country with more than 200 students. A month later enrollment was down to 68—the result of a prank fueled by a long-standing disagreement within the administration about accepting fraternities.
During a heavy snow, students rolled snowballs to the door of Old Main, Miami's original classroom and administration building. At morning chapel the next day, a seething President Erasmus MacMaster announced every participant would be drummed out.
"The next night, those who had been involved, knowing they were going to get expelled anyway, got their fraternity brothers involved," Shriver says. "They broke into Old Main and packed the main floor with snow reinforced by the entire winter's wood fuel supply plus benches and chairs and tables. It froze like a block of ice."
All but two fraternity members were dismissed.
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Senior, Erin Kana's logo was picked to represent Miami University's Bicentennial. Erin is a member of the Greek Community and serves on the Recruitment Team for the Panhellenic Association.