Waking for sunrise activities, wearing uniforms and complying with orders, pledging an ACU social club has often been likened to the experience of boot camp. However, unlike his fellow pledges, Joshua Hollers can empathize with the parallel. At 36 years old, the junior business management major traded a life in Marine blue for that of Frater ... [Read More…]
The Optimist Print Edition: 10.30.13
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Fright of Frat: Frater Sodalis scares with 31-year tradition Haunted Island fundraiser
Frater Sodalis' haunted house is back for Halloween...and back from the dead. The 31-year club tradition takes a turn for the zombie-pocalypse, a theme sure to scare you half to death. As the longest-running haunted house in Abilene, planning for the club's creepy annual event began at the beginning of September and members went to work on the ... [Read More…]
ZP pledges get in, Pi Kappa still waiting
Zeta Rho has nine new members as of Wednesday night. The girls' club brought their pledges into their sisterhood after two and a half weeks of pledging. New and old members celebrated the growth of their sisterhood through reminiscing about pledging. "After we got in we took a ton of pictures, ate cupcakes and laughed with one another about our ... [Read More…]
Clubs welcome spring pledges
Three social clubs are preparing for spring pledging to begin with Bid Night on Friday night. Men's clubs Frater Sodalis and Pi Kappa will join women's club Zeta Rho in the abbreviated spring pledging season. The three clubs had the smallest pledge classes of the 11 clubs on campus last fall. On fall Bid Night, which was Sept. 28, eight men ... [Read More…]
Three clubs preparing for spring pledging
Frater Sodalis, Pi Kappa and Zeta Rho social clubs are offering spring pledging this semester. Rushes for these clubs began Tuesday and will continue up until Bid Night on Feb. 1. Spring pledging is only two and a half weeks as opposed to five weeks in the fall. Victoria Sun, sophomore youth and family ministry major from Plano, said she was too ... [Read More…]
Frater Sodalis Haunted House
This year the Frater Sodalis social club put on a haunted house with the theme "An Island Lost in Time". Video/Editing by: JP Festa ... [Read More…]
Frats scare in ‘Lost Island’
This Halloween, Frater Sodalis cebrated 30 nights of fright with their haunted house "The Island Lost in Time." For 30 years, the men's social club, Frats, has hosted a haunted house in the fall as a fundraiser for the club. Wesley Racca, the fundraiser for Frats, said the Bermuda Triangle inspired this year's theme. "It's a place where anything ... [Read More…]
JMC Network Newscast November 3, 2011
This week on the JMC Network Newscast we take a look at the Shinnery Review workshop, the Frater Sodalis Haunted House and Sadie Hawkins week. Hosted by Farron Salley and David Singer ... [Read More…]
Frats partner with McMurry group to create a haunted Buffalo Gap Historic Village
By Mallory Sherwood, Managing Editor Shrieks of terror will fill the night as students and members from the Abilene community roam the countryside at Buffalo Gap's Historic Village "Haunted Village" beginning Friday. Frater Sodalis, a men's social club, partnered with Buffalo Gap's Historic Village and a social club from McMurry University this ... [Read More…]