Winter Rush is a truly exciting time to be a sophomore. While some of you might be fairly certain about which house you are joining, I would like to share with you the values that make all of us at Chi Gamma Epsilon proud to be in our fraternity, starting with some background information about the house. The Dartmouth chapter of Kappa Sigma was founded in 1905, but in the early 1980s, left the national organization to become a local fraternity, settling on the name Chi Gamma Epsilon in 1987. There may be a stereotype that our house is ‘the baseball house’, or ‘the tennis player house’. Neither of these is entirely inaccurate; every year members of the baseball team, tennis team, and in recent years, swim team, have chosen to join our house. But to label us as such does not do justice to the eclectic group of individuals that make up this house today. Our 63 current members come from entirely different backgrounds, and encompass a wide variety of interests on campus, from Student Assembly and Programming Board to Sailing and Rugby. We all come together for weekly meetings on Wednesday, but beyond that, we also participate in a large number of programming events, have fun community service events like painting old peoples’ houses, and leave it all out on the field in IM sports.

Of course, one of Chi Gam’s proudest traditions is its ability to have a good time. I would venture that everyone reading this has at one time or another raged at the DJ AND KEGS party held several times a term. Our basement is always lively into early morning hours, and playing Ship is a great time, win or lose. Our social scene has no pretensions, and no gimmicks. We drink Keystone light, listen to classic rock and blaring hip-hop, and don’t pay maids to clean our building. Our parties are about music, hot dance floors, and beer. Stripped down to these basics, one truly has the best time. And unlike some other houses, Chi Gam will never become a prison cell, as our guys are not afraid to travel the campus in search of a party when we need a break from our basement routine. Once you join our house though, you’ll realize that you can’t rage every second, but you can still enjoy the best that college has to offer by lounging around on the third floor, hanging out, wasting time between stretches of hard work as only someone with two years of the Dartmouth experience under his belt and the right attitude about life can. Come by our house Monday night of Rush, get to know us, and find out if this place is right for you.

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