Out of the 9 fraternity houses on campus, only two do not have a basketball hoop
or court: Phi Psi and Theta Delta Chi.
We would like to change that.
Phi Psi has
a large space along the Eastern side of the house that is hardly ever utilized, taken up
mostly by landscaping that we often forget even exists.
In total, there is over
1,089 square feet of available space that could be used for something, and our house believes
that a basketball court should be that something.
The court would provide an
excellent space for brothers to come hang out on the weekends or as a study break, and could
be the site of a great many cookouts.
The court would not impede upon any already used
land, and would serve as an additional asset to the house. It would also show a movement of
productivity within the Phi Psi house.
On the east and south sides of the
court would be a Phi Psi wall, built of engraved bricks with Phi Psi brother names. This is
where I need YOUR help. Building this basketball court is approximately a $11,000
project, and we are hoping to fund it entirely separate from our regular budget.
Each
brick would be purchased by an alumni, like you, and would be engraved with whatever message
you wanted to leave behind (appropriate of course).
We will have two sizes of bricks, 4”x
8” ($60) and 8”x 8” ($110).
4”x 8” bricks will create the wall along the edge of the
basketball court, while the 8”x 8” bricks will create a walkway along the edge of the entire
court.
This project
means a great deal to our house, not just for the construction of the court, but also the
connection it will build between us and our alumni, as well as the productive step that it will
show our house is taking.
Leave your mark one last time on Phi Kappa Psi and please join
us for the dedication dinner that will follow in October.