After months without tomatoes from Dining Services, tomatoes will be sold again by the end of next week.

During the winter growing season, the only source of available tomatoes was in Florida, where many companies were not paying their tomato pickers sufficient salaries in the view of Dining Services. Therefore, Dining Services stopped purchasing tomatoes from these farms.

Now, with the change of season, tomatoes are available from California and Mexico. According to Siddiqui, Dining Services has found tomato farms in these areas that pay their tomato pickers sufficient wages and follow standards deemed appropriate.

Siddiqui was hoping that Dining Services would be able to bring tomatoes back to campus sooner, after negotiating with the companies; but he is still glad they are coming back now.

Siddiqui expects students to be very excited to be able to purchase tomatoes again. “I hope nobody has a tomato fight,” Siddiqui said.

In the past month, he said he has received more e-mails asking questions about tomatoes than any other topic since he has been at Wash. U.

Siddiqui commended students on the stand they have taken, which has made a difference not only at the University, but also nationwide.

“It’s bigger than a sandwich,” Siddiqui said. “It was a stand that this community and University took in believing in taking care of social issues, which I think is extremely important, and I think Wash. U. has influenced the national market to help promote sensible and responsible farming.”

Other universities have looked into the standards of their tomato suppliers as well, since Dining Services made this decision to stop purchasing tomatoes.

In addition, several farms have evaluated their standards for the future, according to Siddiqui. Therefore, he is hopeful that this will not be an issue again.

While missing tomatoes from their daily diets, many students still were glad that Dining Services had not been purchasing tomatoes from the farms in Florida.

“I like tomatoes, and I’m glad to hear that they found a way to supply them to the student body without being a party to human rights violations,” senior Elena Losey said.

Another student, freshman Sarah Garay, did not even miss her tomatoes because she said she understood the reasons that the University did not have them.

“Don’t get me wrong, I like tomatoes, but it just wasn’t a priority and I understand the context [of why we didn’t have them],” Garay said.

Other students mentioned that they were relieved that there is now a better selection of vegetables on campus so students have more healthy eating options to choose from.

“We should have a whole supply of vegetables,” junior Roshni Shah said. “I’m a tomato lover.”

Further, students and others on campus have been able to purchase food items with tomatoes from Subway or Aramark throughout this period of time, as those companies are not under Dining Services’ umbrella.

“If people really wanted [tomatoes], then people were going [to Subway] for them,” Garay said.

Dining Services is currently soliciting names for the new food stations on the South 40, including the servery and new Bear Mart shown in this rendering. (Courtesy of WUSTL Dining Services)

Fascinated by nomenclature? How about food? Fame? Glory? Dining Services is offering Wash. U. students and the surrounding community the opportunity to name next year’s dining options at the new South 40 House.

This process includes two rounds, the first of which is currently open. Anyone can fill out a survey and submit ideas for the names of many stations, opening in August 2010. Stations up for naming are the new Bear Mart and the new food options, including but not limited to the bakery and sandwich station, taqueria, pizza and pasta station, grill station, kosher option, Mongolian grill, Tandoori oven and servery.

On March 19, the committee in charge of choosing names will convene to discuss the suggestions received. The committee members will then start the second round by making a second survey, including their favorite suggestions from the first round in addition to another write-in option in case anyone comes up with any new ideas.

Resident District Manager Nadeem Siddiqui said that the committee first discussed having a theme that people should follow, but then decided that the names submitted can be completely open. The committee decided that students should not be forced to stick to a certain category or pattern, such as “Bear’s ___,” or name stations based on the food being sold.

“Right now, in the first round, it’s just absolutely anything that people want to offer as a suggestion,” Siddiqui said. “We decided in the end we’re going to just try to gauge the interest in ideas of the students, and that will be the starting point.”

Paul Schimmele, assistant to the director of operations, urges students to submit any name.

“I’m just hoping for a lot of good suggestions,” Schimmele said.

Siddiqui believes that students’ incentive to participate is that if their idea is chosen, the station will forever have the name they want it to have.

“It will be there forever, and if they come back as an alum, they can say they chose the name,” Siddiqui said.

Dining Services believes that the naming process is going well so far, with more than 100 forms already submitted before spring break.

Dining Services hopes to decide the station names by the beginning of April. This way, officials can pass this information on to the architects so that they can then figure out how to place the titles at each station.

According to Siddiqui and Schimmele, one name that has already been submitted in the survey—and shows that many students have strong opinions about it—is “Bear’s Den.”

“I’ve been hearing, ‘I have to have my Bear’s Den,’ so I’m sure—well I know for a fact—that that’s one of the names that has been written in,” Schimmele said.

He continued to explain how the name is very important to some students who have “very strong connections to [Bear’s Den]” and that Bear’s Den is “very important to them.” But he also mentioned that there are many new students who don’t even know Bear’s Den.

Students can fill out the form online by going to http://diningservices.wustl.edu/name_it.asp, or they can print out a form and drop it off at Bear’s Grill and the Village Café.

The University, along with Saint Louis University (SLU), University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL) and other local universities, is working to form the St. Louis Coalition for Latino Research. This coalition combines each school’s research and services to better enhance the overall research and provide increased services to the community.

Professor Luis Zayas, in Washington University’s George Warren Brown School of Social Work, is the director of the coalition. He started discussing it about a year ago with Joel Jennings, an assistant professor at SLU. Last semester, the coalition had its first meeting with more than 10 participants. Another meeting occurred this semester, and the membership has doubled.

A third meeting will likely occur later this year in which participants will actually share their research with one another to see how they should proceed.

The St. Louis Coalition for Latino Research combines members of many different disciplines, including anthropologists, demographers, sociologists, historians and biologists. According to Ana Baumann, a postdoctoral fellow in the Brown School and member of the coalition, this is a “win-win situation,” helping both their own research and the greater community.

Zayas discussed how the combination of research really would strengthen the different studies. He emphasized how a historian can help a sociologist by looking at similar infrastructure and its functions in historical cases.

Baumann further mentioned that this sort of study is exactly what the community has been asking for.

“We have organizations now, but we have pockets of people that are separate that are working with the community,” Baumann said. “The goal, then, is to get these people together. We don’t have only Washington University, SLU and UMSL, but also representatives from all three communities with us so we can hear from the community, what they need and what they want from us.”

Currently, Zayas, along with Jennings and other members, is assisting with La Casa de Salud. La Casa de Salud has reopened after La Clínica closed. La Clínica provided services to Latino immigrants, regardless of their legal status, but had to close due to a lack of funding.

The St. Louis Coalition for Latino Research is currently being hosted by Washington University’s Center for Latino Research and can be found through its Web site. The coalition is planning on expanding in the future and welcome any master’s, doctoral or postdoctoral students to join its forces.

“They are more than welcome to join us and help us develop grants and studies and workshops and strengthen the forces to help the Latino community,” Baumann said.

Baumann also emphasized how the coalition is only in its early stages and that there are future plans in the works. One such proposal is to develop workshops for the community that focus on parenting, mental health and Latino values.

Zayas is very pleased that Washington University is part of this coalition. While there are programs on Latin American languages and literatures and on Latin American studies in certain departments like anthropology, there really has not been a study on Latino population yet at Washington University, according to Zayas. He believes that Latin American Studies is a very important area that should be focused on, and that the University does not do nearly as much as it should to provide services to the Latino community in St. Louis.

Baumann believes that the reason that the University does not do as much as it should is a lack of available resources.

“The Latino community is increasing, and it’s increasing fast in St. Louis and in Missouri,” Baumann said. “We are very few…We are not enough to provide services for the community.”

This study coincides with an increase in the Latino population in St. Louis.

Estimates range from 58,000 people in the 2007 U.S. Census to 90,000 people in other counts that believe the census under-reports the Latino population.

The Pew Hispanic Center calculated that there were 170,000 Hispanics in Missouri in 2007. According to Zayas, the Latino population recently has been increasing in many places where it has not historically or traditionally been expected, in states like Missouri, Iowa, North Carolina and Georgia. In Missouri specifically, the economic status of Latinos is lower than that of non-Hispanic whites and non-Hispanic blacks, based on a calculation of a lower median income.

This year’s Africa Week will conclude with a performance on Friday and Saturday night of “Sundiata: King of Mali” by St. Louis-based Western African Dance Company Afriky Lolo. The African Students Association aims to expand students views of Africa beyond the stereotypes by exposing them to the rich culture. (Courtesy of Afriky Lolo)

The African Students Association wants to show the Washington University campus that there is a lot more to Africa than the stereotypes and myths that many students believe.

This year’s Africa Week, taking place this week, is titled “Myths and Legends.”

The main event will be at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday at Edison Theatre, where the West African dance company Afriky Lolo will present “Sundiata: The King of Mali.” Through dance, storytelling and drumming, this performance will explain the legend of Sundiata, who was the founder of the Malian empire in 1235 C.E. Though Sundiata was physically handicapped, he was able to build an extensive empire.

Ife Salako, president of the group (ASA), is especially excited about this event because it spotlights African cultures.

“We have Diwali, LNYF and Black Anthology, but there’s never been an Africa culture show,” Salako said. “It’s definitely something different for Wash. U. We don’t get this kind of spotlight normally, so it’s definitely something new that we get to see and experience.”

The week’s events will begin at Ursa’s Stageside on Monday with an event titled “The Warmth of the Human Voice,” where WU-SLam, WUStyle and other performance groups will have presentations.

(Courtesy of Afriky Lolo)

Africa Week will continue Tuesday with a roundtable about the misconceptions about Africa and African identity in the Western media.

“Tuesday we’re going to be talking about the African identity and how a lot of Africans come off to people in society, but there’s so much behind the culture and continent itself,” Salako said.

ASA hopes to connect students at Wash. U. to the African cultures that many rarely experience.

“By discussing identity and how people relate to each other, it’s a way of humanizing Africa and making a personal connection where people can look at it from a different point of view,” Vice President of ASA Betel Ezaz said.

Salako mentioned that these questions about identity apply to cultures worldwide and not just to Africa.

The Feast for Legends will take place on Wednesday. Local restaurants will provide African food. In addition, ASA will screen the documentary “Throw Down Your Heart.” The film traces banjo player Béla Fleck’s trip through Africa and uses music to break through misconceptions that people have about Africa.

A fashion show will put African fashions and jewelry on display Thursday.

These events may be the only opportunity many students have to learn about Africa in this depth, ASA members said.

“I want [students] to take the events as an opportunity to get one step out of the comfort zone or to learn something that you won’t get to experience in classes,” Salako said.

ASA wants people to learn more about Africa than what they see in the media.

“It’s an education too, because some people might leave here without ever having been challenged in what they think about Africa in a different sense than what they see constantly in the news,” Ezaz said.

Salako hopes that students will learn from the events and leave with different visions on the African continent and people.

“These are things that we associate as being part of our home and culture…This is our way of life, so I definitely expect people to come with an open mind, and I hope they take something from it and not just leave it as they found it,” Salako said. “When they’re leaving the fashion show, [I hope] that they understand that fashion doesn’t stop in the western world, and there’s amazing beautiful people in fashion all over the continent in Africa, and it extends beyond our borders.”

Ezaz agrees with Salako in that she too hopes many students learn more about the realities of Africa this week.

“The main thing is kind of showing a different view of Africa other than the one we see of AIDS and starving children, because while that is definitely there, that’s not what defines Africa as a whole…In general, Africans are just very happy people and have a very rich culture—and there’s not just one culture, but it’s how they come together,” Ezaz said.

Specifically, Ezaz hopes that the generalizations and myths about Africa can be broken.

“I guess on a personal level, you get really bothered when you’re in a class or when you read something and it generalized an entire continent, because when you know something is not true or is not the whole…truth, it makes you want to prove that there’s more,” Ezaz said.

Sophomore Parsa Bastani, president of Wash. U.’s Global Zero chapter and regional team leader of the Midwest, just returned from an international conference in Paris, France, dealing with the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons.

“[Nuclear weapons] are a huge issue that we have to start confronting now before an accident [or] before something tragic happens,” Bastani said.

The conference started off with a summit for 30 students from 12 different countries, where the participants learned about campus activism and organizing the grassroots movement for Global Zero.

“[The conference is] basically to get people to rally behind Global Zero,” Bastani said. “The whole point of the activism and organizing is so we can learn how to better pressure our politicians and get people to start caring about the issue so that, in general, everyone is pressuring our politicians to denuclearize.”

The second part of the conference included a world summit for Global Zero, with more than 200 diplomats, military officials and government officials present. They presented, debated and worked on Global Zero policy and activism, and the students were given the opportunity to participate as well.

“A lot of us were learning so much about the issue; being in [their] presence and listening to their debates was enlightening to us,” Bastani said.

Bastani learned a great deal at the conference, which he can now apply to Wash. U.’s Global Zero chapter. He stressed the chapter’s commitment to playing its part in ridding the world of nuclear weapons.

“The Cold War is over and nuclear weapons have outgrown any usefulness they might have had as deterrents,” Global Zero Media Director Gabe Magraner said. “It’s necessary that the world’s nine nuclear weapon states disarm to dissuade the potential nuclear states from developing nuclear arms.”

Bastani said there are many reasons why nuclear weapons should cease to be present in the world.

“Right now their use has faded so much that, one, they’re just a huge drain of world resources and money that could be put into other causes, and two, they’re just hugely dangerous,” Bastani said.

The Wash. U. chapter is currently attempting bring speakers to campus. Furthermore, they are trying to get more signatures on a petition to end nuclear proliferation. According to Bastani, there is a competition between many college campus chapters, and whichever group gets the most signatures wins the chance to present a petition to President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during an April summit on the issue.

“As students, we can sign the Declaration for Global Zero and demand that President Obama, President Medvedev and other world leaders work toward a legally binding, verifiable agreement,” Magraner said.

Sophomore Matt Wilmus agrees that nuclear weapons are an issue, but disagrees with Wash. U. students working against the weapons.

“I think they pose a large threat to the world and there is no reason for any countries that don’t have them now to acquire them,” Wilmus said. “[But] generally, I don’t think we are well informed enough to have much of an opinion on the subject. It’s okay to be vocal about not supporting nuclear weapons­—it’s another issue entirely to actively try to change policy regarding them.”

Overall, Bastani urges more students to join the cause. “We’re also trying to get more students and to recruit more people to come onboard who care about this issue to be a part of this organization, because the more students we have, the more we can reach out to the Wash. U. community and educate [its members] and inform them and connect them to these key officials,” Bastani said.

Last week in Senate, the new legislation for the creation of the DAC passed with 22 votes in favor, two against and one abstention.

According to the new legislation, the DAC’s mission is to “foster connections between members of the campus community, and address issues so as to bring diversity to the forefront of campus-wide and administrative concerns.”

Diversity refers to that of sex, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, class and philosophy, among many other ways of judging people.

People who supported the legislation hope that by having a council, SU will be able to focus its attention on diversity in a long-term, institutionalized way instead of simply throughout the next year or two until current SU officials have moved on and new ones have come in, bringing a whole new set of issues with them.

According to Sackett, the DAC will have several purposes.

“The DAC has three purposes: to serve as a nexus for student groups and students interested in issues of diversity, to work with Senate to implement policy changes related to diversity, and to help coordinate diversity training efforts present on campus,” Sackett said.

Sackett mentioned issues such as the Mothers bar incident and Celebration Weekend as some topics that have recently spurred discussion.

“[It will enable] rapid action planning for instances like racial profiling,” said senior De Nichols, president of Connect 4.

Further, there is redundant programming and overprogramming on campus, Nichols said.

“[The DAC will] unite and possibly combine some ideas and efforts,” Nichols said.

In regards to the diversity training on campus, the DAC will become a resource in addition to a collaboration center.

Student groups such as Safezone, SARAH, Mixed and Uncle Joe’s all provide diversity training, but supporters say that this will allow them to be better coordinated.

Nichols hopes that Greek Life will also be a part of this collaboration too.

The next step comes Tuesday when Treasury votes on the new legislation.

According to Sackett, a change in the constitution requires a two-thirds vote in both Senate and Treasury.

“This is an opportunity for Treasury to show the student body whether they’re committed to diversity,” said Senior Class President and Fernando Cutz, co-chair of WU/FUSED.

Sackett, Cutz and Nichols all hope that Treasury votes in favor of the DAC, but they will have to wait until Tuesday to see what happens.

“I expect that they’ll pass it because I have faith that Treasury wants to have student groups they fund work together,” Sackett said.

Cutz agreed with Sackett but also mentioned that they have been a bit less certain about the creation of the DAC.

“It is my greatest hope that they’ll pass it,” Cutz said. “I think that Treasury has been a little more hesitant with the DAC and we’re not exactly sure why.”

Cutz did mention, however, that if the Treasury does not give this legislation two-thirds of the votes, there would be alternative ways of making sure the DAC is formed.

“We have backup plans if they don’t [pass it],” Cutz said.

If the legislation is passed, the DAC will be formed in late March, once the next administration is and sworn in. They then will appoint a DAC chair who will have to be approved by both Senate and Treasury.

This process has been a long one, making the passed version of the legislation the 13th draft.

When Jeff Nelson was originally approached about the issue, according to Nichols, he said that there was not anything in SU about “diversity affairs” yet.

Before being passed in Senate, the legislation previously passed the University Initiatives Committee with 10 votes in favor and zero votes opposing it.

“This has been a long process and a lot of people have been involved,” Sackett said.

St. Louis city used to have the largest number of infections of chlamydia and gonorrhea, but the number of reported cases has declined, making room for St. Louis to lose its claim to the title of STI capital.

The chlamydia and gonorrhea rates in the city decreased in the 2007-2008 year by 3 percent and 27 percent, respectively.

According to a St. Louis Department of Health report, there were 4,321 cases of Chlamydia reported in St. Louis in 2007 and 4,263 in 2008. In 2007 there were 2,526 reported cases of gonorrhea; the number dropped to 1,864 in 2008.

Several students did not have strong reactions to these rates.

“I can’t say I’m surprised or not, but it was a vacuum in my knowledge,” senior Neehar Garg said.

Many students were glad to find that the STI incidence rate had gone down.

“I think I did know that it was number one,” freshman Andrea Rodgers said. “I’m glad that it has moved down, since it is probably prevalent on college campuses.”

Bradley Stoner, associate professor of anthropology and medicine, expects some rates to continue decreasing.

“I think the gonorrhea rate may continue to fall, but I am still concerned about chlamydia and syphilis,” he said. “These diseases’ rates may go up because we still have work to do in implementing effective screening mechanisms that reach the highest-risk members of the community.”

This decrease of STIs is a result of the city better helping its citizens receive treatment for STIs. According to Dale Wrigley, bureau chief for communicable diseases at the Department of Health, there was an 8 percent increase in the amount of STI testing done in the city last year. This increase in testing likely led to the prevention of the further spread of the disease.

According to Pamela Walker, the city health director, St. Louis spends $1 million of tax money each year in order to combat STIs. The city also opened a new teen health center last year.

In an effort to prevent the spread of these diseases, the St. Louis Department of Health, in conjunction with organizations including Planned Parenthood, went to every middle school and high school in St. Louis last year to educate students.

“I really want to believe we’re getting the message out there,” Wrigley said.

According to Walker, teens still do not know sufficient information about the STIs.

Stoner believes that “condoms and communication are important keys to risk reduction” for young people.

“Ask your partners whether they have any symptoms, but because STDs are often asymptomatic, get screened for STDs together before embarking on a sexual relationship,” he said. “Also, get informed.”

Stoner suggested organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control, Planned Parenthood and the American Social Health Association.

Some students at the University felt as though they have an appropriate amount of knowledge about STIs.

“I am thoroughly acquainted with prevention [of STIs] and how they spread,” junior Sam Sullivan said.

But Sullivan felt that he still did not know as much as he could about the treatment of STIs.

“Maybe I’m not as thoroughly studied on treatment,” Sullivan said.

Although the decrease in the number of STIs has caused St. Louisans to be optimistic, experts warn that the city is not in the clear.

According to Wrigley, “True prevention happens every day, and you really have to keep it going.”

Nick Yozamp (top right) is a Jeopardy! College Championship finalist. He will compete Thursday and Friday in the tournament's two-day final. Courtesy of "Jeopardy!" Productions, Inc. ("Jeopardy!" Productions, Inc.)

Turn your television on at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday and Friday to watch Nick Yozamp, junior at Washington University, participate in the “Jeopardy!” College Championship finals.

Yozamp advanced after Monday’s episode in which he overcame a $5,200 deficit to win the game.

Yozamp has been competing in “Jeopardy!” College Championship this past week. After advancing from the Feb. 4 quarterfinal round against Dan D’Addario from Columbia University and Surya Sabhapathy from University of Michigan, Yozamp participated in the semifinals on Feb. 8. Yozamp then competed against Sami Missaghi from University of Minnesota and James Hill III from Santa Clara University.

At the beginning of College Week, each player appeared in one of the five episodes. The victors in each of the episodes went on to the semifinals taking place this week, along with the next four-highest money earners. The nine semifinalists then competed in three episodes for a position in the two- game finals match. The final rounds will air Thursday and Friday.

If Yozamp wins the final round, he will be awarded $100,000, though he is already guaranteed $25,000 from his previous wins. The second place competitor will receive $50,000.

Yozamp is a 20-year old biology major at Wash. U., planning to go to medical school after graduating.

Three other students have represented the University on “Jeopardy!” including quarterfinalist Ericka Hayes in 1993, semifinalist Arianna Hunt in 2002, and second-place runner-up Jayanth Iyengar in 2006.

Participants in this year’s “Jeopardy!” College Championship include students of varying ages from universities across the country. According to a press release issued by “Jeopardy!”, since 1989, more than 160 colleges and universities have been represented in the tournament, which has awarded $3 million in cash prizes to the participating students.

M.J. Warsi, lecturer in South Asian languages, was awarded a $25,000 grant from the South Asian Language Resource Center to develop an online curriculum for learning Hindi-Urdu.

The grant concentrates on South Asian languages at universities in the United States as part of the U.S. Education Department’s International Education and Graduate Programs.

This curriculum will be accessible by anyone with access to the Internet and will facilitate learning of the Hindi-Urdu language at the intermediate level.

“This is a very new concept we are working on, and we hope that it’s going to be very effective from the language point of view,” Warsi said.

The program should be ready in one year. The South Asian librarian Samuel Wright and other graduate students and technical assistants will assist Warsi.

According to Warsi, there is not another program like this already in existence.

“This certainly is going to be a challenging work, but we are very excited. The outcome will be very much widely used, because we haven’t located any program as effective as we are going to produce,” Warsi said.

Hindi-Urdu student Laura Olivier, a sophomore, hasn’t been able to find a suitable online program. She said the programs she has tried to use have videos that don’t work, are not at the appropriate level for her or are not complete with many vocabulary words.

“I would love to use a program that I would be assured would be at the right level,” she said.

Warsi also believes that this project is important because of the size of the grant.

“In humanities, particularly languages, we consider this a really big grant to work on something,” Warsi said.

Further, Warsi said Hindi-Urdu is considered the third most-spoken language in the world and is very important to learn.

“As part of the ongoing relationship—both technological and strategic—that India has with us and we have with India, there’s so much going on between those two countries, so there is a great demand of learning the Hindi language,” Warsi said.

Students who study Hindi-Urdu agree about its worth.

“It is an important language because it is one of the most spoken languages in the world, and with the rising importance of India in the world economy we must learn the language,” freshman Rohan Gopinath said.

As this language is so important, the program is also expanding at Wash. U. specifically.

The Hindi-Urdu language classes are a part of the South Asian languages and culture minor. There is not yet a major in this department.

According to Warsi, there is a growing number of students enrolled in Hindi-Urdu language classes.

In the fall of 2006, 16 students were in the introductory Hindi course, whereas in the fall of 2009, there were 21 students in the same level.

In the intermediate level courses of Hindi-Urdu, the class size went from four to seven students in the same time period.

Additionally, an advanced Hindi class was added last year.

Wash. U. also has an exchange program with two different universities in India through the McDonnell International Scholars program.

“This [program] is comparable to other schools for South Asian language courses but we do not have a center for South Asian studies like the other bigger schools,” Warsi said. “We are in the process of moving towards that direction.”

When marijuana was found in the house in December 2006, housing contracts for the individuals living in the house were cancelled. The fraternity (SAE) then lost its University recognition in July 2007 after being put on probation and exercising improper behavior at its formal. In December 2008, the Greek Life Office gave SAE permission to be fully recognized once again for the Spring 2009 semester.

Now, according to SAE president Garrett Schreiber, getting the house back is the next step in SAE’s recovery. SAE recently approached the University and expressed interest in receiving a house again.

According to Michael Hayes, the executive director of Campus Life, SAE wanted to know if the University would approve its request for on-campus housing.

They consequently have been in close contact trying to work out the details and ensure that SAE was doing everything it was supposed to be doing to obtain housing.

“We’ve been in contact with them over the past couple months figuring out if now would be a good time for them to come back in,” Hayes said.

SAE’s return to housing is not yet official, but according to Hayes, it is expected to occur soon.

“We’ve been talking with the alumni, the undergraduate chapter, and when all the t’s are cross[ed] and the i’s are dotted, we’ll make it an official announcement,” Hayes said. “But if everything continues going as good as it’s been going, that will clearly happen soon.”

SAE’s House Corporation sent a security deposit check to the Greek Life Office a few weeks ago. According to Schreiber, the Greek Life Office is just waiting for the contracts to be signed, and he was under the impression that SAE’s return to House 6 should be official within a week.

SAE’s president is very excited for their return to fraternity row.

“[House 6] was where our house always was and it’s…a goal that we had to get back on the Row,” Schreiber said.

Schreiber mentioned that a lot of work has gone into earning their spot back on fraternity row, and many of the older members have spent several years working to get their house back.

“We worked hard in the first semester to do philanthropy and community service and everything that a good fraternity should do,” Schreiber said.

SAE’s housing, like that of the other chapters, will be governed by the Interfraternity Council, and will not have any special conditions or rules.

Hayes mentioned that the University is glad that SAE is set to get its housing back.

“This is the next logical step [for the chapter], and we’re clearly excited for them and we want them to be successful,” Hayes said.