News
AC presents 'Bowling for Push'
January 9, 2012
On March 31, the Upsilon Alumni Chapter will be holding its first annual Bowling for Push event at Seven Ten Lounge in Chicago! The event [...]
Members elect new AC board
January 4, 2012
CHICAGO - Following the Board of Directors meeting Saturday, Dec. 10, the new Alumni Chapter board appointed Gene Giannotta to continue serving as Alumni Chapter [...]
Upsilon celebrates 90 years
January 4, 2012
Guests attended a banquet at the Hawthorn Suites on May 21 in Champaign to honor the 90th anniversary of the Upsilon Chapter Distinguished guests in attendance [...]
Each year sees AC improve
January 4, 2012
This has been a great year for the Upsilon Alumni Chapter and we’re hard at work on making 2012 even better. As we close out [...]
Young alum attends Pi Kapp Open
January 4, 2012
This August, about 30 Chicagoland Pi Kapps met in Lombard for the annual Pi Kapp Open. The event is organized each year by Bruce Swanson, from [...]
Marking a milestone
February 11, 2011
CHAMPAIGN - If they could only see us now. The founding fathers in 1921, that is. Forget the fact that this newsletter is making it’s way [...]
Ten alumni ride RV to homecoming
February 11, 2011
The meeting between Illinois’ and Indiana’ football teams was more than a game to the historians. It marked the 100th anniversary of the first homecoming game, [...]
‘Summer of a lifetime’
February 11, 2011
Two recent graduates spent their final summer of freedom biking across America as part of the Journey of Hope. Alex Stezskal (Y1055) and Tommy Carrato [...]
Student turned gold-digger
February 11, 2011
A recent Upsilon alumnus is going for gold in the literal sense. He is actually trying to mine it out of the earth. Andrew Ostendorf [...]
Column: 90 years strong
February 11, 2011
Ninety years is a long time. My grandma turned ninety last May. I remember thinking about all the things she’s lived through, a list that [...]
Alumni website returns
January 18, 2011
Nearing the end of December, the Upsilon chapter websites lost their hosting plan - both undergrads and alumni. The migration of these website took longer, [...]
Alumni go Champaign bound
January 6, 2010
CHAMPAIGN – Returning to the University of Illinois, the first things an alumni notices are the differences - the towering apartments, new stores, a changed [...]
Upsilon on verge of 90th
January 6, 2010
In seventeen months, the Upsilon Chapter will reach a milestone. At the University of Illinois in 1921, Pi Kappa Phi colonized its twentieth chapter. For [...]
Pi Kapp reconnects online
January 6, 2010
To some alumni, brotherhood is taken for granted. On any given weekend in Chicago, several groups of Pi Kapps can be found hanging out together. [...]
Riding across the country
January 6, 2010
It’s not every year that Upsilon chapter members and brothers choose to ride in the most prestigious Push America event, but this year we have [...]
Two officers make history
January 6, 2010
CHAMPAIGN – Neither university records nor recent memory can tell when the university’s Inter-Fraternity Council board last boasted a member of Pi Kappa Phi. Yet [...]
Celebrating 105 years of Pi Kapp
November 22, 2009
CHICAGO - For the past 104 years, members of Pi Kappa Phi have been coming together to celebrate the beginning. On the College of Charleston [...]
New Web site includes community
April 20, 2009
Instant messenger, G-chat, Facebook. There are countless ways to get in touch with someone over the internet these days. Introducing one more - except this [...]
Pi Kapps for Life
February 16, 2009
For the refounding fathers, brotherhood was a certainty. But then graduation came - the real world beckoned. Suddenly the youngest alumni of the Upsilon Chapter [...]
A Stronger Foundation
January 15, 2009
Homecoming is usually about meeting old friends and seeing campus again, but for the Upsilon Housing Corporation, it serves another purpose. For what has been the [...]