Organization Formerly Known As Lambda Chi At UCF Publicly Rushing With The Selling Point Of “No Rules”
My time at UCF was chock-full of conflict with OFSL and even my fraternity’s nationals. You throw a few unregistered summer parties and turn your backyard into an illegal, but very profitable, bar operation and suddenly the university starts to give a damn about your existence. If anything I was just being efficient. No need to waste both paper and the precious time of the administration with something you clearly would have nixed from the get-go.
It was through these constant struggles with the school and chapter officials that the idea of going underground gained some serious traction amongst brothers, all with me sitting in the driver’s seat of the bandwagon. We never went through with it. Frankly, we didn’t have the balls. Plus I could see the disappointment in my big brother’s eyes, who at the time, was a recent grad and heavily involved as a fraternity advisor. I just couldn’t destroy something he put so much time and effort into with one swift, rash movement. Reason prevailed.
However, when your nationals pulls your charter, there’s no reason not to go scorched earth. That’s what the organization formerly known as Lambda Chi Alpha at UCF is currently doing, and in a very public way.
Usually Greek organizations that go off the school’s grid typically try to stay afloat quietly, but not the Gazoni family.
Personally, I love this move and their zero fucks mentality, but I’m not big on the rebranding. Maybe it’s just me, but this move has more of a Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Hulk Hogan, N.W.O. professional wrestling vibe going on than the guido, mobster family thing they went with. Missed opportunity there.
Sneaky best part about all of this is that one of their huge selling points is the amount of pull they have at local bars. Typically, we’d advertise the amount of brothers that had internships at Lockheed Martin, Siemens, or even my whole NBC Sports connection, but not these guys. They want you to know that they’re 100% in the Greek game to rage. You just got to respect that kind of commitment.
No idea how this plays out over the next few months, but to say I’m intrigued would be the understatement of the century..
h/t Knight News
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Come on Dan, I told you before that it’s spelled “Gazoni” not “Gozani.”
10 years ago at 7:01 pmBurton guster
10 years ago at 9:42 pmNWO can suck it, D-GenerationX for life
10 years ago at 10:34 pm“Anything a real frat should be able to do”
10 years ago at 10:41 pmaka how fraternities ever began in the first place. RFM.
10 years ago at 11:08 pmFraternities began by gathering a group of like-minded men who held the same moral stigma. Not by gathering a group of like minded men who want to rage.
10 years ago at 8:41 pmActually, fraternities started as a way to have better access to textbooks and libraries, and we’re originally called literary societies
10 years ago at 11:12 amSounds like Guido stuff. I thought Sigma Chi were the greaseballs at UCF.Looks like the greek ghetto just got more ghetto.
10 years ago at 9:21 amHere’s the problem with this idea.
And I think it’s a great idea.
One of the benefits of having a registered organization with a national affiliation…
Legal protection.
Greek organizations have a liability policy of around 1MM. The terms are absurd (the contract is void if someone brings more than a 6 pack to a party), but it’s still there.
For example, when that chick died at the Sigma Chi house at UCF, certain legal protections were triggered. Nationals got to work and they were covered.
What would happen with this “unofficial” organization if something similar happened? Wno’s liable?
Are the founders forming it under an LLC or through non-profit status?
I hope for the best because OSC and OFSL at UCF are a bunch of douchebags. But they may end up finding out what the term “vicarious liability” means.
10 years ago at 5:35 pmAs much as I would like them to succeed, one major slip up and they will get sued for millions and Nationals won’t back them.
10 years ago at 9:41 am