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These are the words that we, the Kettering-A chapter of the Delta Chi Fraternity, live by. Delta Chi is a social fraternity established in 1890. The Kettering-A chapter was colonized in 1996 and received its charter in 1998.
When Kettering A-Section is on a school term, which is generally in the months January through March and July through September, we host a number of social events that all Kettering students are welcome to attend. The most popular of these is the first week lan party. This always occurs First Friday and starts after your last class of the day. To learn about our other events, please visit the calendar link that is to the left.
Many social fraternities on campus have a recruitment strategy known as "rush". This strategy involves a two week period, generally second and forth weeks, where large and expensive events are held to entice freshmen. After this period, they give bids to the subset of attendees that are male, signed the guest list, and talked to a few of the members. Delta Chi has a very different strategy. We do hold events, but we attempt to space them throughout the term so that not everything is scheduled at once. We also do a lot of informal events where we ask a few people we know out to catch a movie or go do something fun. In general, if you are interested in Delta Chi, the best thing to do is come out to our house when we have events, get to know us, then let us know you are interested.
Delta Chi is a little different. If you are interested in joining, you may be happy to note that there are no required events. We have it in our bylaws that no event can ever be made mandatory by the chapter. If you are interested in attending one of our events, you should not bring any alcohol to our house, as our house is dry. The chapter itself is not, but the house is. Additionally, as Delta Chi was founded as a law fraternity, we do occasionally discuss legal matters and can be a little obsessive about rules, following them, and how to change them correctly. This is just something we enjoy doing. Joining Delta Chi does have a financial obligation. Please feel free to ask about this, but we do feel that it is non-burdensome and those interested should also be aware that there is financial help available for fulfilling these obligations through your school loans available through the financial aid office of Kettering.
We at Delta Chi have wide variety of members. We have members from most of Kettering's departments, including Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Physics, and Management. Major does not dictate interest entirely, however. Many of us are into video games, movies, music, playing music and singing, RC cars (and occasionally helicopters and boats), and dozens of other things as well.