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And so much more! Anyone want to catch up? Better yet, anyone live near Chicago? Kritta ----- A few things I remember, sometimes too vividly.... - At the beach, Christine pole dancing at Spanish Galleon for 3 hours...then needing to be carried down the stairs of the house the next day because she could barely walk. - At the beach, me sleeping in the rut between the wall and bed b/c AC was so wasted he took up the entire bed. - Tim trying to teach me stick in the SHO. - Dee Dee....."Tim, its me!" - Cement mixers. - "The Snake" at the bar. - Ocean City for my 21st...Nate was that guy trying to hit on me at the Purple Moose? - Z'man "leaving his mark" in the back of Romay's car for our corner crawl. - Stoplight race for AC, Ours, Garrison, and Gardner's corner crawl....it wasn't supposed to be a sipping contest AC. - Shots of Bowmans with Bernie while playing video games. - Shots of Tequila with Tim and Myers at JPA before Myers' psyc final. - The Pit. - Beating Fiji in field hockey. Winning the floor hockey IM tournament. - 6 cups. - Lots of blender drinks. - The keg of woodchuck at the bar. - Meeting every Friday afternoon at the Deck first year to "start the weekend". - Summer retreats at Drew's. - Malinda teaching me to ski at Massanutten. - Role by the Mus up to Drewlaine Dr. in Vienna. - Cramer leaving Gardner, Bernie, and I $20 when we got rolled. - Wing night at Marttens. - Hindi night. - Beer at Nate's in Atlanta at 8am after driving all night for the GATech game. D. [Derrick Tam] ----- Caving - forgot to add caving. Might as well throw in the steamtunnels. Wow - so many memories. - Debates -which is better red or blue beast? - Big brothers and little brothers - Spring Break road trips. - The windmill. - Kathy Ireland. - Sneaking into bars in panama city. What ever happened to Sloppy on the roof? - Borrowing the trigon triangle - Rolls and football games. - Ims - indoor soccer, street hockey, field hockey. - Ken and the big guy that wrecked the room Goal posts - thanks Romary! - Lots of football games - Littlejohns. - Shames. Lots of them too. - Golf, if you can call it that. Too many mulligans. "Ken, I thought you were left handed." - Foxfield and the trough. Blue Hawaiians and twizzler straws. - Beer wenches. Toga. Heaven and Hell. Drinking at the treehouse. - Having beer delivered to the first year dorms. - Duct tape and gravel - it all comes back to gravel. - Rescueing sam the head. Torturing sam the head. Who has Sam these days? - Prep step with Dan. I miss that guy. - Getting to wear the cavalier outfit. - Loosing to VT after fourth year fifth and the brawl under the goalposts afterwards. - The sheep at VT. I'll never forget those sheep. - Ron's drive home from VT- yikes. - Marten's, who could forget Marten's? - Boyko's duct taped cup and him falling off his stool several times. - Crazy zacks and LITs. - Bag o wine. - Tim in tighty whiteys a few too many times. - Turtles. - Ken's dad's wagoneer. Drew's sunburned eyelids. Being so sunburned that I got sick. Too many canadians. Ken peeing in the tent. Looking back, I don't know how we survived that trip. - Study groups and all nighters. - Great roomates - thanks chuck! - Overnight guests. Formals. - 10 milers - oxi team champions 1996. - It didn't happen unless there was photographic evidence, in which case you're screwed. - Ceremonies at the chapel. Debbie and her mad dog. - Miles. - The puddle. The deck. The bar. Each distinctive, but yet all the same. - Speeding tickets in Ken's car with everyone else passed out. Che'. - Weddings. - Chuck on stage for the hypnotist. - Indian names. - Bus rides to Canada + 1 L of 100 proof southern comfort + not enough coke... - Canadian beer chug - Beer olympics - Dizzy bat. - Risk - Star trek - Stealing the keg from the trigon party on rugby road. - Drew burgers and trips to his parent's house. - Lots of incidents with Bernie. Those shall remain classified. - Peach bowl, part I and II. - The Good Old Song - Another virginia first down. - Burbon. - Streaking. The mass streak. Almost getting Katie to streak. Bernie breaking an appendage from streaking. - Chris's brown bomber. - Road trip to NYC. The gordon Elliot show. The hallway cowboy. Words with Craig. - Wonderful friends and many things that I'll never forget. Many that I'll never remember. I love you guys! The beta chapter - what ever happened to them? Does Oxi continue strong? Has it expanded further? It's at a time like this that I have to ask, what would the Oxi that I knew do? We'd throw a party. TOGA! Seriously, I'm feeling inspired and we need a reunion. [Eidtors Note: do I hear a volunteer?] Nate ----- Boy this is bringing back memories...here are a few of mine... Molly Chartier 1. "hit the deck" 2. myrtle beach 3. beer olympics, especially that one where you had to spin around with your head on a bat and then run somewhere...while drunk of course 4. walking out of the bathroom in my nightshirt while brushing my teeth only to be welcomed by about 20 brothers in the common room on bid night 5. watching someone, maybe Mikhu and Rob, trying to roll Romary...trying at least 6. the pledges putting a 6 foot hole in the wall of the basement during a skit which was supposed to portray me beating up a pledge 7. having to call maintenance the next day to explain the six foot hole in the basement wall 8. Ken talking to the cops at the deck, meanwhile he was probably the drunkest person there still standing, and laughing till I cried when they actually bought his story 9. being amazed at the awesome, funny people I got to hang out with 10 corner crawls 11. retreats 12. watching my little bro, Steve O, turn red after I kissed him at one of the retreats 13. watching Derrick and anny Woo turn red, more like crimson, every time they drank 14. using the buddy system with Katie and Cheryl Anne during hell week, so that we wouldn't get rolled alone Molly ----- Wow. Living up here near Boston (home of the World Champion Boston Red Sox), it's been a long time since I've been back in Charlottesville or even seen many OXi folks but it's still sad to hear that news. I recently found my Omicron Xi Pledge Book (Second Edition copyright 1988). The last time I checked on eBay, there wasn't much O Xi stuff out there. Now that O Xi is disbanding, I'm sure the value of my Pledge Book is going through the roof; check out my auction! For those of you young folks out there, this Pledge Book is in "courier" font because that's all we had. Ah, the days of WordPerfect on a DOS machine: big charts of the functions keys on the wall (F1 for underline, CTRL-F3 for bold, etc) and the only windows were the ones in the wall letting in fresh air. Yes, before the web, when WWW was a typo of WWF - I think F6 might have been spell check. And now the World Wildlife Fund took WWF away from the World Wrestling Federation (You mean to tell me that a bunch of wrestlers can't just take it back from some panda-loving animal nuts? At least the wrestlers don't take steroids like those baseball players. Hey, Hulk Hogan hasn't been called before a congressional hearing.) As for the memories, they are many. I remember when Royce broke the back window of his hatchback by slamming it down on the keg. I actually think about that quite often, although it's when I'm cramming groceries and a stroller in the back of a minivan. Times change, but at least I learned something in college: close the hatch gently, at least the first time. I know I have some old Myrtle Beach photos up in the attic. I'll try to scan some in and pass them on. At the very least, I can always try to sell them on eBay. After all, if I have an embarassing photo of two brothers, why just blackmail one of them when they can compete for the image fair and square through an auction! I'll sign off with a couple of bits from the begining of the 1988 pledge book (written by Brick, aka Herr): Even when The Society was still quite young, it had already fulfilled the motto of its inaugural year - "Instant Tradition". It must be understood from the start that those forming the Society fall into two main classes: (1) those who did so because they didn't like what they saw in the other engineering fraternities; and (2) those who wanted their names to go down in history and be able to write "founder of Omicron Xi" on their resumes. The latter, of course, were the most determined and ambitious. But no matter, because in the spring of '87, Omicron Xi came into being and immediately set out with a rush to expand its membership. At least I'm not that old; spring of '87, I was graduating from high school (Yes, I'm delusional. Current first-year students were probably born in '87). Hey, it was a great run and rushing O Xi was one of the best decisions I made in college (we won't talk about the decisions that fall into the "What was I thinking?" category). Here's to "instant tradition". Omicronly yours, Joe King Beta (the pledge class, not the fish) ----- In no particular order... 1. 2 pizzas for 10 bucks. Anthony finishing his pizza in 10 minutes. 2. SHUT THE F**K UP! 3. Full contact koosh basketball and nerf weapons being shot at each other at 9 am on a Sunday, regardless of whether you had a "guest" over or not. 4. Hockey in the living room 5. "Rescuing" Derrick in Kris' tank (which as Alex pointed out, had door closing issues) 6. YoungerTaylor getting a rental car. Suprised it still had tires after 2 hours. 7. Chesser driving w/ his knees while lighting a cigarette and drinking a soda. 8. Feeding Myles ez cheese at 4 am in the deck kitchen 9. Playing golf w/ Ken, Drew, Chris, Anthony, Craig, Ski, Cramer, etc. and the countless squirrels we injured. 10. Being remembered every time we showed up at the Staunton Waffle House by the guy that worked there that had only 3 teeth. 11. Almost being arrested several times in four years (car bouncing w/ the guys, running from ossifer Wells, etc.) 12. Overhearing 1st years drinking Derrick's punch saying, "This tastes so good, there can't be much alcohol in here." Finding them still at the house the next morning. 13. Taking my US driving exam at 19 years of age in a K-car. Thanks Anthony! 14. Heck week being the most fun time of my pledge period. I can't believe we stole so much in so little time. 15. Having Ken, the drunkest person at the party, talk to the cops and convincing them everything is ok at the deck. 16. Shaving my head w/ Nils on a road trip to Va. Tech. 17. OlderTaylor discussing how a) we at the turf bar and grill should buy a goat to mow our lawn and b) discussing how the large mouth beast light can was great b/c he no longer had to crush the can while chugging to get the beer out faster. 18. Nate chugging a bottle of Mad Dog 20/20 and running the 10 miler...and doing his best time. 19. Winning a 10 cent bet against Derrick over the course of a year. He paid up. 20. Shopping at Kroger w/ Alex Boyko only after 11 PM. 21. Tabletop Zamboni Thanks to all for the great times and the great memories. Bernie ----- Hello all, I am also sad to see O Xi disband. Here's some memories I have (for better or worse :D) - When Emerson ran over my foot, and Lenny carried me into the house in case it was broken (it wasn't) - When we rolled the pledges up to Boyko's house in NOVA... I remember some disagreements over Pictionary rules, and a horrible drawing by Boyko for the word "near" (he drew a scene from the Titanic). I also distinctly remember Mason dive-tackling me to "scare" my hiccups away. - Making pledges sing "I'm a little Teapot" as punishment for lousy entertainment - Email arguments about Star Wars that annoyed everyone except me and Boyko - Subjecting my pledges to a 5am "backwards walking tour" of the E-school during hell week. I also gave them the "turtle challenge"... finish a beer before my turtle walks across the front yard. It was a sad day for O Xi, only one pledge beat the turtle. (Matt Fleming) - Mattski - how many times did you get your ass grabbed by an O Xi girl? - Romary and the "shoe incident"... and subsequent rumors, which I responded to by asserting that "I did not hook up with Romary". - The Photo Safari or Lack Thereof. Yes, we went to Waffle House instead of trying to find the other cars. But can anyone really blame us? We were already halfway to Staunton and the hash browns were calling to us. - The pride in my heart as I was presented with a certificate and a box of goodies for winning the Robin Grossman award. :,-) - When we had a pony keg race in our house on Piedmont, and Gen's cat somehow wound up covered in beer. - Watching OlderTaylor chug. The man is amazing! - Being held at gunpoint by angry rednecks at Myrtle, then later finding Ben Jackson hiding in the bushes (OK, so he wasn't hiding... but it certainly looked like he was hiding at the time) - Somehow fitting 7 rushees in the backseat of my Bonneville to drive them to a party (Boyko was not in the trunk) Finally, I'll leave you with the official BL0W J0B beer song: I like beer Beer is good Eat it up Yum yum yum! Lorna: My friend Cathy is drunk if you know what I mean Cathy: Cuz I be dancing all over the green! Take care and drop me a line if you want to catch up... Lorna Lambda, CS '00 ------ I'll throw a few of my memories in: Not only do I remember Royce's Escort's window getting smashed, I remember getting rolled with Freddie in that same car by Royce and (it was either Don or Bill Anderson I can't believe I cant remember), who decided it would be fun to roll Freddie during Ramadan right before sunset. On that trip I remember, me being too much of a chicken to sneak into the Natural Bridge, the others getting chased out of the Natural Bridge, the pleasures of Olympia, its in the water, getting pulled over in Harrisonburg by a cop while our car is full of beer and underage drinkers. Thankfully it was just because we were driving aroudn with no rear window. I remember painting the bridge, several times. I remember Dennis trying to make sure we remembered the Service aspect of our charity. I remember during one of Freddies frozen drink parties, which started before noon IIRC, us realizing that we had an ultimate frisbee game in minutes. All of us barely being able to stand, and having just enough players with Norm. I remember that our opponents were the reigning IM ultimate frisbee champions. I remember that to avoid forfeiting that Norm played, but only stepped on to the field right next to his drink. My best memory though is the fact that we actually played better completely lit and won that game. (Hopefully we won, because that is my memory and hopefully that wasn't alcohol induced). I have a lot of memories which are not alcohol induced, and are of good people with great hearts helping others through the pleasures of e-school while helping the community, but those aren't as fun to write about (or read). Pfeffer ----- I will post more if my memory permits, but here are some thoughts in no particular order: 1. My second thought was the Royce keg/Escort hatchback incident at our pledge retreat in spring 1989. It is interesting that Carl and Joe King also remembered that. Unfortunately, I think there was a lot more property damage, and some painted faces too. My only sober memory of that retreat was the top of Inning One of the softball game, which lasted about an hour. By the time we got to bat, sobriety was a distant memory. 2. My first thought - donating the money to the Diabetes Foundation was the honorable thing to do, and for these brothers, probably the only thing in these circumstances. One of the most important things is to never give up on each other, and remember those who have passed on in a positive way. 3. O Xi is now no longer under the regulations of the UVA drinking policy - woohoo!! No more Double Secret Probation!! 4. We may be the only organization in UVA history to have had an office called "Cool IMs", thanks John Greenhill (I think). I also remember actually beating VSA in volleyball one year (not sure if things are still the same, but they were really awesome when we were there). 5. It is a great thing to remember about the fun (and illegal) things that we did, and probably continue to do. But to me, it is also important to stand together in the tough times, and fighting for our friends and friendship. Sometimes, it is all we have. Other times, it is all we need. 5 (yes, I know I already have number 5 above, but this is my email and I will number as I please). Great times caving and rock climbing my last couple of years with folks like Gordo, Kelly Ou, Kris, Derrick, Elena...others too numerous to mention. 6. Telling Tim Waters that when you smoke pot it goes into your body fat, and then when you burn that fat, you can get high again. He went swimming with me at Onesty Hall for over a month!! 7. 10Miler, 10Miler!! That had to be the earliest I ever woke up on a Saturday morning. Starting doing them in 92 and did my last one back in 2003, hope to do more after moving back to the US. 8. First Highway Cleanup in 1990(?) - lots of roadkill, very old bottles, unidentifiable applicance parts, and other things not mentionable in this email. 9. Magnum - "Fifth Year Four" with Dennis (actually drank over 5 40s), Jonathan and Rob (the only guy to ever drink malt liquor out a glass instead of the 40 ounce bottle) 10. Beach Week - meeting Christian Laettner and Bobby Hurley and the Galleon and telling them they suck in basketball and challenging them to 2 on 2 with me and Rob "ankle boy" Johnson. Then, puking in a trash can and watching them laugh at me. 11. Dan's Diner. My brain is empty for now. Being in Tokyo, I am a little out of the loop (and my English is getting sloppy), so it is nice to read these stories and memories. Looking forward to more. OK, gotta go play some ultimate. Take care from Japan, Miku ----- I know I'm missing some great memories - hopefully between all of us we'll capture the spirit of OXi. Here are the ones that came to mind first: On bid night, trying to convince the RAs that the liquid we had in our squeeze bottles was ginger ale, not champagne. Learning to drive stick in Ken's car in the Scott Stadium parking lot so I could take a driving shift on the way to Cocoa Beach for Spring Break. Attempting to streak the Lawn during my 21st birthday celebration (along with Nate, Chuck, etc.), but being caught by an ocifer while just starting to disrobe. Never did streak the Lawn. The crazy stuff we found during Highway Cleanup - and oh, yeah, puking on the side of the highway during the cleanup the morning after my 21st birthday celebration. Sharing a Gusburger with Sachi on my first trip back as an alum because neither one of us had tried one during our student years. Sending out the "Email 101" rules to the OXi distro list every fall after the tenth forwarded joke from a first-year. (I guess no one needs to do that any more.) The test file! Ken trying to hit a golf ball from a right-handed stance at Myrtle Beach. Elena in her grass skirt and lei during our popular tiki party rush event. Patricia the bagel pilferer. Frantically trying to come up with Pledge Entertainment the half-hour before the meeting and mostly ending up doing Teapot anyway. Haiber's spectacularly sunburned feet (with stripes of white where he casually swiped some sunscreen) at Dick's Sandcastle. My mom meeting Ron Eliasek as he was taking some of Courtney's clothes back to her dorm room. The Puddle, the Deck, and all the great nicknames for everyone. Mehetaville in the mornings, along with Ren and Stimpy: "It's log!" Every year, the intense competition for the Robin Grossman award. End of classes picnic at Lambeth. Having to paper over the windows in the meeting room doors so we didn't get caught with beer. Scott (aka Sloppy) whining about how the meeting time interfered with Star Trek. All of those Foxfields and the Foxfield-inspired poetry from Edgar Allen Drew. The spring break ski trip to Canada - esp. Ken and Nate drinking bourbon at 6:00 a.m., Ken kept thinking about working on his thesis on the bus, and Nate puking into the snowbank the minute the bus arrived at our destination. How the shuttle driver couldn't believe we were up so early to ski after partying so hard the night before. The feeling that everyone understood what I was going through - and everyone having the work hard/play hard/help your brothers mentality. Our perennially short of people intramural teams - and the year we won the IM championship and got t-shirts! All of my Eta pledge brothers: Anny, Bart, Cheryl Anne, Chesser, Karhuse, Malinda, Marcela, Molly, Nate, Patricia, Romary, Sachi, and Tim. Let's keep the instant tradition alive among the alumni! Maybe one day OXI will become a student organization again - after all, we have the second generation of OZ kids coming along nicely now.... Katie Wales ----- I had some other thoughts: -The memory of Schmidt and I creating a bogus ox ceremony where we dressed in black (with the exception of Schmidts white socks) and pretented to initiate pledges on Bernie's front lawn. The Toys R Us Ox put everyone in hysterics. - Field Hockey at the Dell - particularly that game that fell during Boyko's Mad Dog rampage - when the ref threatened to make us forfeit if we couldn't keep our spectator under control. - Our rush trip to the mountain when everyone started to cheer when that stop light changed to green. - Myrtle Beach when Romary and I came back from a walk. The police had shown up for a raid and we could see a cop in every window. Needless to say we kept right on walking. Christine ----- That is sad news indeed. I'll just add a few of my most vivid (I was going to say "best", but quite a few don't fall into that category..." memories to the list: 1. Snowball fight in the MechE classroom! 2. The "Theta Incident". 3. Going to a rush party within the first couple of weeks of first year and drinking the "punch" - Mark Corner informing me that it was spiked (which I knew) and saying "I thought you said you didn't drink?". My response: "I didn't." 4. Singing around the campfire at retreat and discovering that our accompanying guitarist, Anthony Curtas, had been overzealous and his fingers had bled all over his guitar. 5. Far too many pledge skits involving "Star Trek: The Omicron Xi Generation" (most authored by Alex Boyko). 6. Tim Waters and the "Harmon Street Strut". 7. Derrick tearing his leg up when he fell chasing down a very drunk Boyko. 8. Late night "Email Barrages". 9. Pledge class step aerobics class led by Malinda and Sachi Pace during "Heck Week". I don't think I was on that step at the same time as anyone else in the class at any point during the class. 10. Elena borrowing "The AMC" and later calling me because she couldn't figure out how to shut off the high beams. (There was a button on the floor.) 11. Speaking of Elena and "high beams": Elena shouting "My boobs hurt!" immediately after getting off of one of the roller coasters with shoulder harnesses at Kings Dominion. 12. Rolling George Council and Mike Taylor to Afton Mountain. Mike put up quite a fight - until Tim Waters decided to sit on him until he calmed down. 13. Streaking the lawn with Derrick , Dombroski and the Virginia Tech guy. I wonder why we couldn't convince Totran to join us? 14. Watching wrestling matches between a drunk Boyko and Schmidt, a drunk Boyko and Derrick , a drunk Boyko and... well, just about anyone. 15. Drinking an upside down margarita served by Drew and, I think, Romary, and just about drowning since I didn't know that I wasn't supposed to swallow during the pouring process. 16. Getting pictures of Garrison passed out on the bathroom floor at "The Deck". 17. Getting pictures of Romary passed out and "decorated" by some of the girls (Don't worry Lorna, I won't mention any names). 18. Early morning trips to the Italian Villa. Late night trips to the Waffle House in Staunton. 19. Oh yeah, we were also a Service Society - I guess I should add the highway clean-ups and the Charlottesville 10-miler volunteering. Nothing like watching an Ociffer (on foot) pulling over a car that drove through a stop sign... 20. Slipping down the muddy hill near the stadium on my way TO a rush party and getting covered in mud and continuing on to the party. Why did you guys let me join by the way? Ours ----- This very sad news, indeed. OXi meant quite a lot to many of in our times at (and after) college. While it is disappointing to not see the tradition continue, we will all never forget the memories and experiences we had thanks to the brotherhood. Anyway, here is a very small sample of some of the things that I will remember most, and I'm sure I'll kick myself for forgetting some after I send this.: -Getting drunk for the first time in my life at a rush event at The Deck. -Having the brothers come for me on Bid Night while I was folding underwear and then drinking champagne on The Lawn. -Having Drew make me yell, "I should have gone civil!" while running around the cabin at retreat and climbing the big hill every year. -Getting rolled to Afton Mt. with Garrison and hiding in a women's bathroom until we got picked up. -Having pledges read a drunk e-mail I wrote as pledge entertainment. -Duct taping my hand to cup with a frozen drink in it. -Running the cement mixer station at Heaven and Hell. -Attempting "The Mad-dog Challenge" before football games. -The dynamics and shifting alliances of Z's roommates, getting kicked out of his house for quoting along with "Billy Madison" and nerd traps. -The proud feeling I had when my 16 pledges went through initiation and being mocked for promoting "Pledge Unity". -Meeting in the chapel after Sachi passed away to talk about all of the memories we had about her. -Too many stories with Tim Waters too recount here. - At the beach refereeing at Beer Olympics, sleeping in the "gangsta den", and the condition of the bathroom floors after a few days. -Riding in Gardner's Suburban hoping the passenger side door would not fly open. -The fiber-optic cable running from the bar to the CD Changer at "The Bar". -The room-trashing "incident" that got my pledge class all up in arms. -Handel busting a hole in the wall in the Olsson basement during a meeting. -Volunteering to ride in a trunk a few too many times. -OlderTaylor's chugging abilities. -"Spamuel L. Jackson" and "Spammy Davis Jr." -Nate's rescue operation of Sam the Head from the top of the amphitheater and sending Sam ransom notes to Dombrowski. -George Council's angry reaction to cheating on a Hell Week quiz and his "Playing our cards right..." comment. -Anthony banning "40s night" at his apartment and some property damage was done. -Chesser appearing and disappearing at random times. -The "Four Musketeers" of the Mu pledge class. -Trips to Kroger with Bernie and Big John's Beans and Fixins'. -Attempting to subdue Romary for a roll in the Scott Stadium parking lot. -"Think Safety", "Buns of Nils", "Beasthead", Miles the dog, "Ocifer", and a crude nickname foe the "Flaming Wok" restaurant. -Instructing Ours to not allow me to smoke and him driving me home from many a night at "The Bar". -The thrill of Waffle House runs to Staunton at 2 AM. -Lots and lots and lots of Beast Light. I hope all of you remember some of these things and OXi will always live on as long as we keep the memories alive. P.S. Please feel free to e-mail me if you want to catch up on things. -Boyko ----- Memories: -Some nerdy girl named Sara [Editors note: Sara Matys, whom he married] -The never-repeated (for good reason) 1998 beach week Beer Olympics Endurance Challenge -Cement Mixer shots at Heaven and Hell. -Tree toppling while climbing Mt. Buck Hill Handel ----- This is very sad news. A few memories: -changing student advisors from a Trigon chick to Kim -getting back from the first open rush party in our first year and being concerned that the punch was spiked with rufies -shaved heads and an electrocuted pickle for Lambda pledge entertainment -Officer Wells and the collection of random stuff that made it into the turf bar and grill -Derrick behind the bar and learning the limits of an all liquor party (I still don't remember what happened that night) -Rolling the turf bar and grill brothers to the Waffle House in Staunton (getting a shotgun pulled on us from Gardner, chasing the brothers along JPA to put them back in the car, and being followed by the cops once the roll was completed) -not being able to gather everyone together for the photo safari because everyone was too hammered -Z's lecture to the Lambda pledge class and the initiation that almost didn't happen -The Jim Bob -The Endurance Event that should have never happened and luckily has never happened again There's a lot more, but too many to remember, all great memories. It would be nice if we can maintain the history and documentation of OXi, should it ever need to be resurrected again or at least circulated among alumni. I hope everyone's doing well and I'm sorry to hear the not so good news. -Mattski ----- Some brief, but vivid memories from a founder... 1. The first pledge class when there were 2x the pledges of brothers. A couple of times the pledges rolled the brothers. 2. Royce putting a keg in his Ford Escort and then proceeding to shut the hatch on it - blowing out his back window. 3. Off-sites at my Wintergreen cabin, so many memories, so few that are repeatable. :-) Frisbee and football on the golf course was fun though. 4. Ridiculous sleeping arrangements at Myrtle Beach "dump" house for beach week. Nights at Crazy Zaks that ended with people getting thrown into the pool around 4am. 5. In the first year, creation of "instant traditions" since we had none. 6. The pledge bricks and the creativity that they fostered. 7. Stephanie Smith repeatedly keeping us all from doing things that were beyond stupid (stupid was far enough) 8. Garvey remaining sober through it all, not sure how you did it Paul, we must have been painful to watch at times. 9. Organizing OZ in Randy's apartment, since EE was too easy for him, writing bylaws etc were interesting to him, thus the lawyer gig. And so many more.... but I am old now and my recall is not so good anymore. - Carl Showalter ----- Wow! The end of an era. O Xi was an important part of my college days, and my on-going life. If it wasn't for O Xi, I would probably have never met my wife Terri (formerly Terri Lindsay). I met her at my first O Xi rush event. I can still see her standing there across the Jefferson Room. She wound up being my pledge master and my better half. I also remember a lot of drunk people like Don Rissmeyer passed out on my couch 4th year on home coming weekend (before he was rushed to the hospital) and Royce Hernandez at the Del (no tomatoes, no mayonaise). And how about the time we pledges mopped Beth's and Leslie's floor with Ammonia; stripped that baby clean. I've got to admit, I haven't thought about O Xi much in recent years, but the demise sure brings back memories. Bill Anderson Pledge Class Beta ----- In all honesty, if it wasn't for OXi, I probably would have transferred out of UVA after my first semester. I ended up at the Deck for a rush party with some random people and by golly it changed my life. Today has been an interesting journey of memories - my pledge party when the brothers stole our keg of Killians and raced it down the street, the unfortunate year of Six Cups, the oscar-worthy pledge skit script (after all this time I can still recite the entire Monty Python and the Holy Grail), the ill-fated Beer Olympics "endurance" event, and about 10 years of nearly annual golf outings. Mostly I find myself thinking about the great friends I made and will have for life. OK, enough sentiment, this event really makes me want to toast a Beast Light - well, maybe not. Christine Return to omicron-xi.org |
