The houses, which are expected to house Kappa Kappa Gamma and Chi Omega, will be in the empty area next to the Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority house.

According to UCF’s Grant Heston,  the houses will be university owned and will be operated and maintained by the Department of Housing and Residence Life  Currently, there are 11 houses in Greek Park.

The completion of these two houses will bring the total number of houses in Greek Park to 13 and the number of bed spaces in Greek Park will increase to 462.

Also being constructed will be a Fraternity/Sorority Life Center, scheduled to open in Fall 2013.

The purpose was to raise money for the Military Heroes campaign benefiting the Fisher House foundation. Over 7,000 dollars was raised for the foundation, which helps provide low-cost lodging to veterans and military families. The money raised this year more than doubled the year before.

Mike Skinner, the philanthropy chair for Kappa Sigma told us, “Sororities come out to compete in events such as relay races, sand castle building, pyramid plunder, and tug-of-war. They are fighting to be crowned the Queens of Key West.” Knightnews.com stuck around to take some pictures of the event which you can see below:

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The fraternity delegates and IFC Executive board did not come to a consensus on the matter, but two different ideas arose, that will be voted on next Wednesday, March 28th.

Matt Zimmerman, the VP of Recruitment for IFC and brother of Delta Upsilon told Knightnews.com, “We are trying to have all of the fraternities move from having two main periods during the year to get their new members and recruit 365 days a year.” He went on to say, “It is something that has been talked about for a while, but always pushed aside. I believe it would be best for all 18 fraternities if we didn’t set up a formal recruitment for them like we have in the past.”

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The matter was debated by Delta Tau Delta delegate Chris Boley who said, “It seems like you guys don’t think we’re recruiting 365 days a year, but we are. We are not using tent rush as a crutch, most freshman don’t have cars, so it is for their benefit not ours.”

Without a tent rush, fraternities would have individual events all week instead of having any type of unified tent rush where all the fraternities are recruiting next to each other.

Phi Delta Theta president Tal Wollschlaeger voiced his opinion by bringing up an idea of moving tent rush back to Lake Claire, and having the four on campus fraternity houses rush out of their houses. He said, ” If you want to get rid of tent rush then bring us Greek Park 2″, he added, “UCF is not FSU, UF, or Alabama. When there is only four Greek Fraternity houses on campus, in order to have a successful rush, tent rush needs to stay until there is a real alternative.”

Knightnews.com will be there at the next meeting to update you with the outcome.

Knightnews.com caught up Tal Wollschlaeger, the President of Phi Delta Theta, to talk about the Music Fest event, which will take place at Memory Mall on March 17th.

The Music Fest to Defeat ALS event will have artists such as Eden’s Edge and Johnny Bulford, along with many other games and activities that will last all day.

The Phi Delta Theta Philanthropy Chair Danny Mitchell told Knightnews.com that from now until the event any student in Cornerstone that sells tickets will have 30 percent of tickets they sell go back to them.

Watch the video below to learn more about the event:

You can buy tickets to Music Fest from any Phi Delt or from http://donatealsucf.com/.

The situation, according to a release from the Progress Coalition, stems from allegations that Ignite did not file financial disclosures related to campaign finances. UCF, on the other hand, doesn’t have any rules requiring candidates account for who donates to their campaign. So, this situation is an interesting case for UCF SGA to observe, as it could be a glimpse into the one of the outcomes of requiring candidates to account for who is donating to their campaign.

Meanwhile, the majority party leader, Rueben Stokes, broke his silence on the issue over Facebook, just hours before the meeting. Stokes published a letter to his fellow party members.

KnightNews.com has obtained the letter, and pasted it below. Click for it to be enlarged, and check back for updates on the breaking situation in the state’s capital.

Just over a week ago, Knightnews.com received word about the Interfraternity Council (IFC) possibly breaking away from the Greek Council.

This means that the IFC would be able to govern itself without going through the jurisdiction of the Greek Council.

Breaking away or not, each had it’s pros and cons.

Breaking away could have made it possible to where the IFC would be able to think about revoking the six week dry period at the beginning of the semester that was implemented by UCF.

However, breaking away would not make it so every fraternity would be able to do whatever they wanted. Breaking away from the Greek Council would mean that the fraternities would still have to get socials approved by the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life (OFSL).

Through much debate and deliberation, the IFC decided to table the talks and work on coming to terms with the Greek Council.

Interfraternity Council President Mike Irene told Knightnews.com, ” We are working to create a long term solution to better both the greek council and the individual councils and keep a positive attitude to improving our greek community and the university as a whole”

The pairings are as follows:

Team 1: Alpha Delta Pi, Theta Chi, Zeta Phi Beta

Team 2: Alpha Epsilon Phi, Alpha Phi Alpha, Alpha Tau Omega, Lambda Sigma Upsilon

Team 3: Alpha Xi Delta, Sigma Lambda Gamma, Zeta Beta Tau

Team 4: Chi Omega, Delta Phi Lambda, Phi Delta Theta

Team 5: Beta Theta Pi, Delta Delta Delta, Pi Delta Phi, Sigma Gamma Rho, Sigma Nu

Team 6: Alpha Epsilon Pi, Delta Sigma Theta, Delta Zeta, Phi Gamma Delta

Team 7: Kappa Alpha Theta, Lambda Chi Alpha, Mu Sigma Upsilon

Team 8: Alpha Kappa Alpha, Kappa Delta, Sigma Pi, Tau Kappa Epsilon

Team 9: Delta Lambda Phi, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Lambda Theta Alpha, Sigma Chi

Team 10: Delta Epsilon Phi, Delta Upsilon, Lambda Theta Phi, Pi Beta Phi, Phi Beta Sigma

Team 11: Chi Upsilon Sigma, Delta Sigma Phi, Delta Tau Delta, Zeta Tau Alpha

Romney earned 47.62 percent of the vote. Ron Paul was second with 23.81 percent, Rick Santorum was third with 14.29 percent and Newt Gingrich got only 9.52 percent of the vote, according to a press release sent by Ryan Heffner of the FFCR.

There were eight chapters in attendance — Eckerd, FAU, UCF, UF, USF, UWF, UM — along with five FFCR executive board members present for the vote.

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Monday, January 23: Student Union
A kickoff event, where a small group from each fraternity will be present, is set for Monday from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. in the UCF Student Union.

Tuesday, January 24: Individual Fraternity Rush Events
Each IFC fraternity is hosting its own rush event on Tuesday, ahead of the Memory Mall rush tent activities which happen Wednesday and Thursday (more details on this below). KnightNews.com found out each event being hosted Tuesday, and we published it below, along with a list of each fraternities size and GPA, as of the last UCF fraternity size and grade report. We also provided links to the fraternity websites, after finding them listed by IFC.

UCF Fraternities Individual Tues. Rush Events Listed Below:
(These events typically last several hours, so if you have class when it starts, don’t feel bad about showing up later on that night to the event).

90+ Man Chapters

Phi Delta Theta – 131 total members
Phi Delt House BBQ – 5 p.m. in Off Campus Greek Housing
2.879 GPA – Ranked 3rd in its category

Lambda Chi Alpha – 116 total members
LXA House BBQ – 5 p.m. – in Off Campus Greek Housing
2.831 GPA – Ranked 4th in its category

Theta Chi – 113 total members
Theta Chi Open House – 6 p.m. – in On Campus Greek Housing
2.966 GPA – Ranked 2nd in its category

Alpha Tau Omega – 107 total members
ATO Open House – 7 p.m. – in On Campus Greek Housing
3.060 GPA – Ranked 1st in its category

Sigma Chi – 94 total members
Open House – 6 p.m. – in On Campus Greek Housing
2.752 GPA – Ranked 5th in its category

70+ Man Chapters

Delta Tau Delta – 86 total members
Delts House BBQ – 6 p.m. – in Off Campus Greek Housing
2.955 GPA – Ranked 2nd in its category

Delta Upsilon – 84 total members
DU Kick-Off BBQ – 5 p.m. – Leisure Pool
2.784 GPA – Ranked 5th in its category

Sigma Pi – 77 total members
Paintball – 7 p.m. – Paintball Word Sports Complex
2.947 GPA – Ranked 3rd in its category

Beta Theta Pi – 73 total members
Beta House BBQ – 8 p.m. – in Off Campus Greek Housing
3.099 GPA – Ranked 1st in its category

Kappa Sigma – 73 total members
Kappa Sig Open House – 5 p.m. – in On Campus Greek Housing
2.863 GPA – Ranked 4th in its category

Zeta Beta Tau – 73 total members
Wackadoo’s Meet and Greet – 8:30 p.m. – Wackadoo’s
2.742 GPA – Ranked 6th in its category

40+ Man Chapters

Tau Kappa Epsilon – 59 total members
TKE House BBQ – 6 p.m. – in Off Campus Greek Housing
2.803 GPA – Ranked 5th in its category

FIJI – 57 total members
Phi Gamma Delta House BBQ – 6 p.m. – in Off Campus Greek Housing
2.988 GPA – Ranked 3rd in its category

Sigma Nu – 54 total members
Tailgater’s Takeover – 7 p.m. – Tailgater’s
3.023 GPA – Ranked 1st in its category

Alpha Epsilon Pi – 52 total members
Tailgater’s Meet & Greet – 7 p.m. – Tailgater’s
2.998 GPA – Ranked 2nd in its category

Delta Sigma Phi – 47 total members
Brooklyn Pizza Meet & Greet – 7 p.m. – Ferrell Commons
2.809 GPA – Ranked 4th in its category

*The overall average GPA for Greek men is 2.901, higher than the 2.790 average GPA of all undergraduate men at UCF, according to documents KnightNews.com obtained in Fall.

Fewer than 30 Man Chapters

Delta Lambda Phi – 25 total members
Who wants to be a Lambda Man? – 8 p.m. – Student Union
3.124 GPA – Ranked 2nd in its category

Lambda Theta Phi – 10 total members
Lazy Moon Meet & Greet – 7:30 p.m. – Lazy Moon
2.955 GPA – Ranked 5th in its category

Wednesday Jan. 25 & Thursday Jan. 26: Memory Mall Rush Tents 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.
The Memory Mall area, the open area in between the UCF Student Union and the UCF Arena, will be filled with tents of members form each IFC fraternity. Unlike the Monday Student Union event where only a small table of members from each fraternity are present, the tent event allows fraternities to bring out their entire brotherhood to meet potential pledges. It runs from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Friday
Each fraternity will have its own wrap up event. By this point, if you haven’t picked a fraternity to join, you should have it narrowed down. Contact each fraternity you’re still considering and find out where and when they’re meeting up Friday night for the last night of rush.

Check out the individual events of each fraternity here: RushIFCUCF