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1. Fastest Growing Fraternity at Florida State
2. Dance Marathon Champions Spring 2008
3. Collectively Awarded over $5,000 in scholarships Summer 2008
4. 2007 Thomas A. Gehring Award for Nation’s Most Improved Chapter
5. 2007 Philanthropic Achievement Award
6. 2007 Most Involved Alumni Award
7. 2008 Thomas A. Gehring Award for Nation's Best Chapter
8. 2007-2008 Gold Division Intramural Champion (more points than any other fraternity)
9. Host 2008 Chi Phi Southeast Regional Leadership Alliance
10. Host 2008 Chi Phi Fraternity Congress in New Orleans, La
11. 40 consecutive years on campus Spring 2008 (Feb. 10, 2008)
The Chi Phi Fraternity at Florida State University received its charter on February 16, 1968. On that date we were formally designated as the Nu Delta Chapter. Today, Chi Phi is becoming the all-around fraternity. We are a strong brotherhood with deep roots. We participate in every IM sport and won our intramural division this year. We won by more points than any other fraternity in the past nine years. We realize that without the university the fraternity could not exist. We make sure that studying and academics are a top priority. Our chapter was awarded close to $6,000 in individual scholarships this year. We also believe in giving back to the community. We perform various community service events throughout the semester. Over the past year our brotherhood has raised over $10,000 for various charities and performed over 1,500 community service hours. Chi Phi was crowned Dance Marathon champions last semester as well. Finally, Chi Phi believes in making leaders on campus. Our brothers are involved in all facets of campus life including Emerging Leaders, Order of Omega, Alpha Phi Omega, Army and Air force ROTC, IFC rush, public relations, and orientation committees, Marching Chiefs drum line, Torch, FSU Fishing Club, Dance Marathon Catering, Public Relations, and Event Management Captains, Relay For Life Executive Board, Seminole Student Boosters Executive Board, Phi Eta Sigma Honors Society, Student Alumni Association and Scalphunters to name a few.
Chi Phi is a lot of work, but it is also a lot of fun. Our house is the closest fraternity house to Doak Campbell Stadium, making our football tailgates second to none. You can always catch us in the front lawn heckling opposing fans and hanging out with sorority girls. This year we had live bands at each of our tailgates making our house the place to be for pre-game festivities. The Spring is full of social events in order to make up for the lack of a football schedule. Chi Phi hosts an annual hayride and socials and crushes are held throughout the semester as well. A social is where we rent out a bar and invite another sorority to join us. They are usually themed which makes them a lot of fun. A crush is similar but it is open to any girls that want to come instead of just one sorority. In the Spring we also have our annual party at Buddy’s which is a lakeside party in March. Our final event in the Spring is our annual formal which will be held in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Chi Phi is taking over Florida State’s campus. This year we will be celebrating 40 consecutive years on campus. We invite you to be a part of the next 40.
National history:
The Chi Phi Fraternity, as it exists today, is the outgrowth of three older organizations, each of which bore the name of Chi Phi. These organizations were the Chi Phi Society, founded at the College of New Jersey (Princeton); the Chi Phi Fraternity, established at the University of North Carolina; and the Secret Order of Chi Phi, founded at Hobart College.
The first of these older organizations, the Chi Phi Society, which is known in the history of the Fraternity as the Princeton Order of Chi Phi, was established at the College of New Jersey, later Princeton University, on December 24, 1824, by Robert Baird, then a tutor in the college and later a prominent Presbyterian clergyman. Also involved in the formation of this secret Chi Phi Society were a number of faculty members of both college and seminary as well as undergraduates of both institutions. This society ceased to be active in 1825.
Thirty years later, in the winter of 1853-54, John MacLean, Jr., found among the papers of his uncle, John MacLean, president of Princeton University, the old constitution, minute book, and ritual of the Chi Phi Society of 1824; and with these as his guide, he united with Charles Smith Degraw and Gustavus W. Mayer in reorganizing the old society at Princeton along "modern lines."