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Page 3 Fall 2014 Initiates St. Baldrick’s Preview 771 Zachariah Swint My name is Stephen Haley and I am the new Philan- 772 Andy Leekung thropy Chair for DU. This spring, we will once again 773 Cameron Walker be raising money for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. 774 Phillip Reeder For those that are not familiar with St. Baldrick’s, it is 775 Aaron Ackerman an organization that raises money for the fight 776 Joseph Lesniak against childhood cancer. All those who volunteer for 777 Renato Maues the organization collect donations from friends and 778 Rohith Ravi family in exchange for a pledge to shave their heads 779 Alec Hendrix in a show of solidarity with children affected by can- 780 Matthew Clark cer. Last year, we did very well, raising about 781 Zach Jacob $12,000, coming in third overall out of the fraterni- 782 Chris Nowack ties at Tech. This year, however, I believe we can do 783 Jacob Webber even better. To do that though, we will need your 784 Jude Nifong support. Our team page is located at https:// 785 David Aylward www.stbaldricks.org/teams/gtdu2015. Any amount will go a long way. If you have any questions, contact me at shaley0204@gmail.com. Spring 2015 Pledge Class Following a very successful Spring rush period, we have recruited seven new associate members that we believe have the potential to be excellent members of Delta Upsilon: Caelan Radford Sai Naidu Zachary Broderick Matthew Wallace Andres Filmer Karim Badawy Jasper Narvil Campus Involvement Update Recently, there has been a surge of DU involvement in high places on campus. Several brothers have po- sitions with IFC, Georgia Tech’s Interfraternity Coun- cil: Matt Naugle is Vice President of Recruitment, and Ryan Burke holds the position of Social Chair. In ad- dition, brothers Jon Cordova and Brian Swanson hold positions in TEAM Buzz (Director of Projects and Director of Finance, respectively), a group that hosts an annual day of service for the city of Atlanta that draws a lot of participation from the Georgia Tech student body.