Page 2 - The Rho Extra - Spring 2016

Chapter News

From the can fully represent a fraternity ready
for the 21st century. We partnered with
Chapter President the local Champaign police in order
to launch a new yearly philanthropy

It has been an exhilarating event called Dunk-A-Cop that made Brothers teamed up with the University of Illinois Police Department to
year for Rho Chapter. over $500 and put us on the local news.
We’ve continued to build
We have also made great strides
to reenergize alumni involvement
on our past successes and with last year’s golf outing and participate in our Dunk-A-Cop philanthropy event and raised over $500 for the
forged ahead by persevering upcoming events for this year, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and the Special Olympics in under four hours.
against all of the obstacles that which include a meetup at Arlington Park in things stand today, we’ve never been in a better
have challenged us along the July and another golf outing in August. Rho position to have sustainable growth and I cannot
way. This year Rho chapter Chapter as a whole has come together in ways wait to see what the upcoming year has in store
oversaw an expansion of that seemed all but impossible a year ago.
6 great men that will eventually help lead for us. With my time as President coming to a close,
We have gone through I can say with absolute certainty that I have never
the chapter to new heights. We have also a decent amount of been more proud to be a Phi Kap than I am today.

found a central housing location close to internal restructuring, Watching my brothers grow into better people

campus that we are going to be able to use but the end result has and helping to facilitate their personal growth has

as a base for future Rho Chapter events. produced a much more been an experience that I could never forget.

Our GPA cumulatively is the highest refined and cohesive ΦΚΣ

it has been in years with both spring and Even brother Robert Post’s puppy, organization that is - Devin Rice
fall semesters surpassing 3.0. We have Charlie, joined in on the fun. capable of handling a
completely updated our bylaws so that they plethora of situations. As

> Chapter Spotlight: Joseph W. Rock
Editor’s Note: Representing the chapter as Spotlight is Joseph Rock
of Deerfield, IL. Joey earned his bachelor’s degree in computer Outside of school, what do you like to do
science and is scheduled to graduate this May with a master’s degree. for fun?
Currently serving the chapter as Academic Chair, and past Secretary
and Social Chair, Joey has been a strong leader and respected voice In those moments when the eternal grind of my
in the fraternity. His knowledge and skills were noticed by Google and master’s program is not so bad, I try to get some
he was offered a job with the company in New York after graduation. physical activity in. I belong to an on-campus
To help prepare for his future, Joey has interned at Volition, Amazon, Japanese Jujitsu group. It’s a lot of fun, but trust
and with Groupon as a programmer. On campus, he is a member of me; after three years, they are still beating me
the Illini Jujitsu group. He also enjoys hitting the gym, playing the up. In the meantime, I’ve been working on a
piano and drums, and designing his own video game. hobby video game project and exposing myself
to all the local music I can get my ears on.
What do you enjoy most about being a Why are you interested in computer science?
member of the chapter? Any plans for after graduation?
Once you digitize something – you know,
Between the time I joined as a sophomore turn it into 1s and 0s – you can manipulate It’s all coming to a close soon and I’m slated
and my last semester on campus, Rho Chapter that information, make conclusions from it, to enter the workforce come summertime. I’ll
has been a tight-knit group of friends. It’s and pump it back a response to the real world. be leaving my friends and family in Chicago for
fantastic that on any given night, if I need to There are researchers using computer science a new life in Manhattan, so the plan is to get a
relax from the coursework, there will be a few to discover cancerous genes in our DNA, lot of quality time with the loved ones. As well,
brothers who want to get together. It doesn’t neutralize missiles in the sky, and yes, even since I won’t be getting those nice, long student
matter who’s there; we mesh together well. make Netflix experiences smoother. vacations, I’ll be doing a bit of traveling. I’ll be on
the Birthright Israel trip during graduation time.
Joey (center) getting lunch with some Which internship do you feel has helped
you get the most experience? Joey with his three brothers and a few of his
2 friends at Champaign’s Miga. cousins at a family reunion in sunny California.
This summer I got to work at Deep Silver
Volition, a video game developer based here
in Champaign, Illinois. I think a lot of people
hear that I worked for a game company and
somehow get the notion that I played games
all summer. On the contrary, it was proper,
full-time work. My team had me work through
robust system architectures and had me writing
code from the consoles powering the game to
the distributed networks that closed the loops.