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New ISU fraternity open only to gay, bisexual men
The Cedar Rapids Gazette ^ | December 10, 2004 | Associated Press

Posted on 12/10/2004 1:32:31 PM PST by newgeezer

AMES, IA -- A new fraternity has formed at Iowa State University, limited to homosexual and bisexual men. Formation of the Delta Lambda Phi chapter, approved unanimously last week by Iowa State's Interfraternity Council, happened quickly.

Brian Olechnowski, 22, of Long Island, N.Y., arrived as a graduate student in August. He was initially skeptical about the interest level of ISU students. But by September, the group had 11 members. By October, the group had raised the $600 petitioning fee and was recognized by its national fraternity.

"There are definitely people not in overwhelming support of the fraternity," said Olechnowski, the group's president. "One gentleman who is part of the gay community, he was very upset about the group being started up. He thought we were trying to be separatists or revolutionaries."

Delta Lambda Phi is a growing national fraternity with 2,000 initiated brothers, 20 chapters and 12 other groups working to become a chapter.

Delta Lambda Phi is open to gay and bisexual men, and allies, considered "progressive men." The group is now a "colony" at ISU, working toward full status as a chapter.

The fraternity will not get money from state government or student fees, and does not yet have a house. But it has all the rights and responsibilities of a fraternity, including representation on the Interfraternity Council and support from the university.

"They're a part of us. They're working with us," said Shawn Eagleburger, 22, an ISU interior design major who is president of the Interfraternity Council. "We're very excited to have this group. There's not a whole lot of opposition to it."

Dusty Garner, a vice president on the national board for Delta Lambda Phi, said this is a first for Iowa. An attempt by ISU students to form a chapter of Delta Lambda Phi four or five years ago failed. A chapter in Mississippi fought for two years against anti-gay policies before being recognized.

"It's a big deal that the Interfraternity Council was open-minded enough to say, 'Yes, please, come along,"' Garner said of Iowa State. "That shows a really great step forward in general in the Midwest for an open-minded society that probably wasn't there a few years ago."

Delta Lambda Phi, launched in October 1986 by three men in Washington, D.C., is expanding quickly in the Midwest with colonies forming in Toledo, Ohio, Raleigh, Mo., and Manhattan, Kan., Garner said.

"The news has been all positive that we've heard," said Phil Hernandez, vice president of ISU's Delta Lambda Phi, who described ISU as a friendly campus that doesn't discriminate. "Everything has been going well."

It will take between one semester and two years for Delta Lambda Phi to become a full-fledged chapter at ISU, which has 30 fraternities and is considered one of the predominant Greek systems in the state. The new fraternity is being mentored by those from the University of Minnesota.

The University of Iowa in Iowa City has 20 national men's fraternities but does not have a chapter of Delta Lambda Phi and does not plan to add a chapter in the coming years, said Jason Pierce, an assistant director in Iowa's Office of Student Life.

"We haven't had student interest," he said. "Students have not come forth in saying, 'This is something we need and want."'


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: cyclones; dontdropthesoap; eltonjohn; gayagenda; highereducation; homosexualagenda; iowastate; iowastateuniv; isu; lavendermafia; sodomites
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To: newgeezer

Delta Lambda Phi is Greek for the Association of Idle, Degenerate Students (AIDS)


122 posted on 12/11/2004 2:42:50 PM PST by Beckwith (John Kerry is now a kept man . . .)
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To: Gondring
If they follow what happens in New York State (like my old hometown...), they announce in the New York Times that it's a "gay community," etc., so the property values drop. Then they move in and buy it all up cheap and make it reality. :-(

The birth of a gay ghetto ...
123 posted on 12/11/2004 2:43:59 PM PST by so_real (It's all about sharing the Weather)
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To: newgeezer

Delta Lambda Phi is Greek for the Association of Idle, Degenerate Students (AIDS)


124 posted on 12/11/2004 2:44:06 PM PST by Beckwith (John Kerry is now a kept man . . .)
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To: so_real
The birth of a gay ghetto ...

Well, not "ghetto" in the sense of run-down. No, after they move in and buy everything up, they build very nice places and spend all the money that they aren't spending on raising a family...driving prices up so the natives of the area have to leave. :-(

125 posted on 12/11/2004 2:53:43 PM PST by Gondring (They can have my Bill of Rights when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!)
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To: DBeers; pnome
Yeah, but if you look at The Moral Matrix® Political Ideologies from that site, it becomes clear that the breakdown is pretty bizarre. I think it's designed to put so many people into a "Capital Republicanism" category, which is more of a political party designation than an actual ideological bent regarding republics, for example.
126 posted on 12/11/2004 3:11:07 PM PST by Gondring (They can have my Bill of Rights when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
Love knows no species.TM
127 posted on 12/11/2004 3:12:07 PM PST by Gondring (They can have my Bill of Rights when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!)
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Oh poo. I see my post 121 was removed. Was it the picture of the 2 men kissing while using poppers, or the picture of the butt plug that did it? Certainly the pictures of Vaseline and other personal lubricants wouldn't have been enough.


128 posted on 12/11/2004 7:48:46 PM PST by spodefly (I've posted nothing but BTTT over 1000 times!!!)
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To: rdb3

Yeah there's a few Nasty Que Dogs with sugar in the tank.


129 posted on 12/11/2004 10:26:15 PM PST by mafree
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To: newgeezer; andie74
Delta Lambda Phi, launched in October 1986 by three men in Washington, D.C., is expanding quickly in the Midwest with colonies forming in Toledo, Ohio, Raleigh, Mo., and Manhattan, Kan., Garner said.

I've heard of them. Seems though that they have absolutely abysmal graduation rates. Turns out that the would be graduating brothers hate to leave their buddies behind

(120 + posts and no ones used this joke yet!?)

130 posted on 12/13/2004 8:40:18 AM PST by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: newgeezer

This proves us Huskers correct when we say ISU sucks...


131 posted on 12/13/2004 8:55:06 AM PST by Paco
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To: Paco
LOL. It's obvious you Husker fans are really getting desparate when you demonstrate the need to disparage the likes of ISU.
132 posted on 12/13/2004 9:54:29 AM PST by newgeezer (Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary. You have the right to be wrong.)
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To: newgeezer
Hehehe...let me tell you, I work/live in Omaha and I have several people working for me that live in Iowa and are ISU Cyclone fans. The banter back and forth is hilarious. No one ever misses an opportunity to bash the other.

Those Cyclones can be brutal...but then, if I had to check the air in the tires on my house everyday...I'd be brutal too. ;o)

133 posted on 12/13/2004 11:25:51 AM PST by Paco
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