October 2002 Meeting Notice

DISTRICT COURT JUSTICE TO ENLIGHTEN SIGS

With the vast majority of court proceedings occurring at the district court
level, Justices of the Pease have heard and seen it all!

District Court Justice Jacqueline B. McVay will address the Phoenix Sigma Chi
Alumni Chapter this month on her experiences, standards and philosophy in the
courtroom.

The meeting will be held Wednesday, October 9 at the Phoenix City Grill, 16th
Street and Bethany Home Road. Drinks at 6PM followed by dinner at 6:30 and the
speaker at 7PM.

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ASU Update

All nine of the House Corporations with houses on Alpha Drive held a
meeting last night in which we discussed ASU’s stated intention to
the Board of Regents that they will seek to reacquire our
properties. We held discussions with a top Condemnation Attorney
(that we will probably be retaining) on the steps and process that
ASU will have to go through to attempt to take our properties from us.

If you would like to be helpful you may want to call your Legislator
to let them know some simple statistics.

1. The State Budget Deficit next year is projected to be $1 Billion.
2. The Universities already have deferred maintenance on existing
facilities to the tune of $239 million.
3. The cost to reacquire the buildings from us (at least) $3 million
x 9 buildings/properties = $27 million plus the legal cost when we
fight them in court.
4. Greeks at ASU have higher GPA’s than the General Student Body at ASU
5. Greeks at ASU have higher graduation rates than the General
Student Body at ASU.
6. Greeks make up only 9% of the Student Body but contribute 70% of
the charitable giving to the Universities.
7. The Houses on Alpha Drive already serve a public purpose in that
we are deed restricted to provide Student Housing at ASU. Housing is
already in short supply around campus and ASU does not need to make it worse.

When the Sig Chapter at UofA lost the old “Plaster Palace” it damaged
some ties with their Alums who do not really feel that the current
House is “their” house. I do not want to see that happen to us at ASU.