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"We will definitely be having it again and hopefully for years to come. It's for such a good cause." Featuring 20 contestants from Alpha Tau Omega... the event helped raise money for the sorority's national philanthropy, the Children's Miracle Network.

Special awards winners were named first, with ATO senior Nicholas Gregory taking home the "People's Choice" award.

Simpson students heart consensual sex, or so the T-shirts say.

Alpha Tau Omega fraternity sold baby blue T-shirts with white lettering reading "I love consensual sex"... All proceeds were donated to the Planned Parenthood on the south side of Des Moines.

The University of Delaware's Alpha Tau Omega fraternity is formally appealing the university's decision to suspend it.

Any appeal will go before the university's appellate board in early April. The fraternity members will be able to stay at their house while the appeal is considered.

the last thing Jesus Cuellar had on his mind, as he and his brother traversed the USC campus on their way to meet up with a friend, was becoming a central figure in the ongoing drama engulfing the school's Greek system...

When the paper followed the undercover report with an article about two fraternities' racy fund-raisers - one at Alpha Tau Omega that featured young women dousing themselves with water and alcohol during a bull-riding competition...

Lawmakers compromised Monday to allow fire marshals to inspect sorority and fraternity houses located on state property...

Six months ago, a blaze at the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house at the University of Mississippi [web/tickets] killed three students.

The ancient Greeks have their claims to fame. They are remembered through fantastic mythology of gods and goddesses, and celebrated through the Olympic Games. Albion College's Greek organizations have legends of their own...

Closing ceremonies and the announcement of the winning team will take place Saturday, April 2 at 1 p.m. on the fraternity quad located between Sigma Nu, Alpha Tau Omega...

A University of Delaware [web/tickets] fraternity has appealed a university decision to suspend it a second time because of alcohol and safety violations. University of Delaware's Alpha Tau Omega fraternity members Wednesday filed an appeal...

The University of Delaware's Alpha Tau Omega fraternity is formally appealing the university's [web/tickets] decision to suspend it. ...

Any appeal will go before the university's appellate board in early April. The fraternity members will be able to stay at their house while the appeal is considered. ...

The Alpha Tau Omega fraternity celebrated the 20th anniversary of its signature service project by presenting a $100,000 check to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

ATO St. Jude Chairman Matt Sturdivant says getting to spend time with the children at St. Jude is a truly rewarding experience. "It makes you feel good about yourself. You go down to the hospital and see the little kids and they are just so happy," Sturdivant says...

A University of Delaware [web/tickets] fraternity's second go-around in the school's judicial system has again resulted in the fraternity being suspended because of alcohol and safety violations. Alpha Tau Omega has until Wednesday to appeal the guilty ruling and the resulting four-year suspension...

Members of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity at the University of Tennessee at Martin pushed through Dyersburg Tuesday in an effort to raise more funds for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

This year marks the 20th annual ATO Wheelbarrow Push, which every year has benefited patients at St. Jude. The organization has raised more than $465,000 since the fund-raiser's inception in 1986. This year's goal is $100,000, said ATO member Brent Simpson...

While candidates in the Student Government Association presidential election were speaking to various student organizations for support, others were lining up to endorse different candidates...

Carson Thoma, president of Adams' fraternity, Alpha Tau Omega, spoke positively of Adams' leadership qualities...

Every Friday afternoon the shoulders of Drew Hilton, Glen Arbor sophomore, get a brief workout. This has nothing to do with basketball-Hilton is a member of the Albion College men's basketball JV team-but rather, it is part of an off-campus program in which he participates...

Turner started the program by recruiting men's basketball players. One of the players, Ben Feeney, was the president of Alpha Tau Omega, so it wasn't long before a group of ATOs was coming to the school as well...

Sanctions issued for more than half of Albion's chapters

... Alpha Tau Omega (ATO) was charged with violations of the Statement of Relationship, including having unmonitored doors during what was originally viewed by the administration as an open party on Jan. 22. ATO was not found responsible for violating the policy, which requires all fraternities and sororities to notify the Interfraternity Council or Panhellenic Council, respectively, of parties it plans to host.

Matt McKenzie, Grand Ledge junior and president of ATO, attended the hearing regarding the matter and explained that the gathering was not a planned party. However, the fraternity was accused of and admitted to having open containers of alcohol in common areas of the house, including the first floor and stairwells. This violation resulted in the chapter being placed on social probation for the remainder of the semester...

More than six months after fire ravaged the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house and killed three sophomores on the University of Mississippi campus, the investigation into the cause of the fire has been closed without providing answers...

The report from the Federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms is most notable, not for what is says... but what it doesn't say. There's plenty of information here... but plenty more that's been left out, or just plain blacked out.

In all 99 pages of the report, there's hardly a single page without dozens of black marks, marks which mostly omit people's names, but other information as well.

It was supposed to put the final note on last fall's devastating fire at the Alpha Tau Omega house...

Several MSU fraternities and sororities will soon have some charitable landscaping done to their front yards. Within the next several weeks, at least 17 greek houses will have drop boxes for Volunteers of America, a Christian nonprofit community-service organization, installed on their properties...

Alpha Tau Omega, 251 W. Grand River Ave.

An attempt to save Reno's historic Hillside Cemetery may soon be under way after a nonprofit organization was proposed this weekend to take the lead in preservation efforts...

Michael Pennington, Alpha Tau Omega alumni chairman, said the nearby fraternity and its alumni could help, especially in raising money to improve a private road called 10th Street that runs east-to-west through the cemetery...

The University of Tennessee Martin chapter of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity is hoping to raise $100,000 by the end of the weekend for the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis. They'll be in Jackson today to raise some of those funds...

A Samsung wireless cell phone. A wallet. A set of car keys. Alpha Tau Omega fraternity members retrieved these bits of normal life after a fire consumed their house on campus, and three fraternity brothers within - William Townsend, Jordan Williams and Howard Stone - died before dawn on Aug. 27...

"I really hope this final report will close the book," Alford said. "The ATOs are ready to do that, and the victims' families are ready to do that."

Read the final ATF report. (17MB PDF)

Sebastian Bens stood triumphantly next to a makeshift social lounge he and fellow students had almost completed constructing.

... a place to relax and listen to music during the event, which featured other attractions like video game tournaments, limbo contests and a moon jump. ...Alpha Tau Omega fraternity co-sponsored the party to benefit The Women's Center of Tarrant County.

Though the lounge collapsed minutes before the event started, fraternity members quickly fixed the problem. Bens, an undeclared freshman and fraternity member, was determined to finish building.

"Screw studying," he said. "I got to build this thing. That's what I'm all about - keeping the love." ...

Members of the UTM Interfraternity Council attended the Southeastern Interfraternal Conference in Atlanta from February 17-20.

Fourteen members representing the Interfraternity Council attended the conference: ...Taylor Moody of Alpha Tau Omega...

In the 90-year history of the University's [web/tickets] SGA, only seven people have beaten the Machine candidate for SGA president. ..

The Machine is a "select coalition of traditionally white fraternities and sororities designed to influence campus politics."...

Zac Riddle, a member of non-Machine fraternity Alpha Tau Omega, flatly denied being the organization's candidate. ...

...fraternity and sorority members who don't live in the Greek houses but still reside on campus only have parking passes designated for where they live. ...

Zac Sanders, Sigma Chi fraternity member, and Zach Walker, Alpha Tau Omega fraternity member and public relations senior, wrote the "Animal House Parking" resolution. "It's not right if you're paying dues to a fraternity or sorority if you can't park there,"...

The Isla Vista Recreation and Park District (IVRPD) unanimously voted at its meeting Thursday night to issue a 900 percent permit fee increase for a fraternity's invitational volleyball tournament.

Three people attended the meeting ... where IVRPD decided to charge Alpha Tau Omega $500 and require a $1,000 security deposit for the use of Greek Park ... Board members said damage sustained by the park during a Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity event last year necessitated the increase. ...

The brothers of Alpha Tau Omega at the University of Tennessee at Martin will begin their annual wheelbarrow push through West Tennessee to collect money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital ...

... and defeated the Alpha Tau Omega team of Tyson Brown, Mickey Hart, Brinkman Murray, Brad Pierce in the final round with the final question. ...

John Kitson summed up the day by saying, "It was a lot of fun, the questions were really random, everyone was having fun at an academic event, even when smart isn't usually considered cool."

Four University of Missouri-Columbia fraternities this fall decided to forgo the usual Homecoming festivities and instead raised money for local youths at risk. Rather than spending money on house decorations, members of Alpha Tau Omega, Beta Theta Pi, Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Pi Epsilon hosted a carnival and raised $17,000 for The Intersection, an independent, not-for-profit agency ...

Because of the fraternities' dedication to the agency, The Intersection has created a Greek chair on its board of directors. The first member to fill the seat is ATO President Greg Hawver.

Forty-eight hours of hard work paid off for all those involved with the Interfraternity Council/Panhellenic Dance Marathon (THON) when the record-breaking total of $4,122,483.65 for pediatric cancer was announced. THON, believed to be the largest student-run philanthropy in the nation, took place Feb. 18 to 20, and with 704 dancers raising money for the Four Diamonds Fund, the event made national news for its staggering numbers and efforts. For the 10th year in a row, Alpha Tau Omega fraternity (ATO) and Zeta Tau Alpha (ZTA) sorority took first place for the most money raised...

The winners of Baylor University's 52nd annual All University Sing were announced, Saturday, Feb. 26, in Waco Hall. ... Alpha Tau Omega ... placed second with "I Love the 80's,"...

People's Choice Awards, which were voted on by audience members, also were awarded. Alpha Tau Omega and Kappa Chi Alpha's act, inspired by a 1986 senior prom, won two People's Choice Awards for best music selection and best theme development...

For the incoming leaders of Emory's [web/tickets] Greek community, Greek Week offers a chance to revive an ideal of unity that traces its roots back to ancient Greek societies. It's also a time each year for cleaning up the image of fraternities and sororities on campus...

College junior Jonathan Rio was elected IFC president for the second year in a row...

Rio, a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity... said they are eager to help spread the message of a positive and united Greek community throughout the University.

"Often what you hear about Greeks places negative stereotypes on us," Rio said. "I want to solidify Greeks' roles on campus as social leaders, meaning that the Greek community has a lot to offer in terms of philanthropy and creating a social atmosphere."...

Duke University is about to become just a little bit classier. This fall, Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, whose primary tenets are summed up by the acronym CLASS-"character, leadership, academics, sportsmanship and service"-will begin formally recruiting new members...

In charge of finding a new fraternity was an inter-organizational group called the Expansion Committee, led by Ivester. This group included Assistant Dean of Students Todd Adams, Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs Zoila Airall and two fraternity chapter presidents-junior Brian Vetter of Sigma Epsilon and senior Chris Carlberg of Alpha Tau Omega...