It was the autumn 1988 Christmas/Graduation party at the Pi Kappa Alpha chapter at the University of Maryland, the place I first noticed a fraternity rag sheet. As brothers and their dates mingled and downed drinks, a pile of photocopied, stapled pages appeared.
The entrance web page learn, “The 4 Pi’s,” and everybody raced over to learn the newest version, which was written by the graduating seniors to roast the brothers who nonetheless had extra time left in faculty.
Now, I’ve the previous copies of ragsheets, however I’m not going to indicate the contents of them, as a result of many of the stuff in there didn’t age effectively.
However the problems with the 4 Pi’s sometimes had columns of what was “In” and “Out” for that semester, in addition to “golf equipment” that made enjoyable of brothers for the way they dressed, dumb stuff they’d performed, the place they’d be in ten years, and many others.
A type of predictions that was fairly shut was for Scott Van Pelt, and it mentioned he’d be doing colour commentary on NBC. About ten years after commencement, he was ending a stint on the Golf Channel and off to ESPN, the place he nonetheless is in the present day.
As I paged by that first problem I’d seen, I noticed my title got here up within the “America’s Most Needed Membership,” as a result of I’d gotten arrested at our pledge camping trip.
The problems of the 4 Pi’s that got here out on the fall commencement events had the everyday trash speak, in addition to “stocking stuffer,” the place the seniors left issues behind for brothers.
I used to be often a little bit anxious on the commencement events about what is perhaps within the rag sheets about me.
Sometimes, the worst I bought was being on an inventory of fellows who have been “whipped” by their girlfriends. There have been humorous digs right here and there in direction of me, however another guys would get destroyed by phrases.
By the point the commencement occasion for spring 1993 got here round, I used to be completely satisfied to get my probability to work on the 4 Pi’s with the opposite graduating seniors, and we put out the largest version throughout my time in the home. We had heaps to say.
In the long run, there have been laughs, emotions harm, and reminiscences.
