For the first time at the University, a historically and predominately black fraternity has a house on fraternity row.

Theatre arts senior Anthony Brown, the campus relations chair for Kappa Alpha Psi, said the fraternity just returned to campus last fall after taking a five-year leave of absence due to low enrollment. Having a house is expected to increase membership, he said.

The fraternity currently has 15 members living in a house on the 1000 block of University Avenue.  more >>

Local veterinarian and animal lover Dr. Vernard Hodges will be leaving this morning for the Gulf Coast.

He won't know what he'll see when he gets there, but he knows he can't just sit by and do nothing.

"My area of expertise is pets," said Hodges. "I couldn't just sit here and keep watching them. I feel the need to go."   more >>

On September 7, 2005, Africare welcomed five senior members of the Third District of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. The Third District includes 40 chapters in Virginia and the District of Columbia. Members presented Africare President Julius E. Coles with a generous donation to the Tsunami Relief Effort in East Africa.

Chairman of the Chapter Subcommittee, Brother Charles D. Chambliss, Jr., said, “the effort is a response to the appearance that more attention and resources were needed to address the impact of the tsunami on East Africa and the drain of funding to African based programs generally.”   more >>