Brothers,

I wanted to share with you all some exciting news out of the Beta-Delta Chapter. Each year, Virginia Tech's fraternity and sorority life office holds an awards banquet to recognize chapters and individuals in the Greek community for their contributions to their chapters, community, and peers. This year, we came away with three awards! As a chapter, we received Outstanding Risk Management Program of the Year, our current Vice Chief Engineer, Aaron Morris, received the Paige M. Neubauer Outstanding Fraternity New Member award, and our previous Chief Engineer, Christian Wiskur,… Read More +

On Saturday the 21^st, we split into three groups and headed off to the three Courage Connection properties in the Urbana-Champaign area. There were a number of houses in Champaign, an administrative building in Urbana, and a retail store in Urbana. At the Champaign property, we did general cleaning and maintenance for the houses and their yards. Brothers cleaned all the windows, inside and out; picked up plastic, cigarette butts and other trash lying about; swept the patios and porches; cleaned play equipment and the sides of the houses; as… Read More +

The latest issue of The Castle has arrived! Read it here.

Jason Renner, class of ’99, was the first in his family to go to college. He felt that being a “first generation college student” eased the pressure from his family to maintain certain grades or choose a specific career path. Ultimately, he decided to pursue engineering, and paid his own way through his time at Trine University, working about 20 hours per week.

Renner joined Sigma Phi Delta after he became friends with a few brothers in his freshman year engineering class. Due to his family background, he didn’t have prior exposure to anything engineering related, and Sigma Phi Delta provided… Read More +