The Alpha Omega Chapter recently held its yearly major election cycle and congratulates the following brothers on their election to office: Camilo Cabrera – Consul; Walter Herring - Pro Consul; Patrick Hayes – Annotator; Michael Philips – Magister; Karl Francel – Kustos; Natt Oliver – House Manager; Brad Busby – Tribune; Brady Haugh, Connor Lanman, Garrett Delgado – Social Chairs; Tommy Kramer, P.J. Franklin, Johnny Leganski – Recruitment Chairs; Billy Olson – Public Relations Chair; and Zach Hoberg – Risk Manager. Our chapter recently hosted Mission 365 with facilitator Bob Wilson. Many new concepts were brought to the attention to the juniors and seniors, like addressing the concerns of prospective members, and the recently initiated brothers got a preliminary sense of what Recruitment is like as an active member. Steven Mandell, Consul Emeritus, believes Alpha Omega is now focused on "finding the Sigma Chis among our recruits." This outlook will be applied to Spring Recruitment, which will take place from March 27th to April 9th and host an arcade night, dodgeball, an alumni smoker, and a weekend barbeque, among other events. Alpha Omega is maintaining its strong relationship with Stanford Project on Hunger by doing weekly breakfast feeds at the Palo Alto Opportunity Center and is looking forward to fundraising for the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah through Derby Days 2011 which will host a sorority bake sale and a dunk tank competition. The chapter is also looking to serve as academic mentors and coaches in athletic activities for students of the East Palo Alto Charter School.

After the completion of an extremely successful recruitment period, the Alpha Omega chapter of Sigma Chi is proud to welcome 20 young men as pledges of the Fraternity. Our Magister, Chris Riklin, looks forward to preparing them to be active members, and the chapter as a whole looks forward to getting to know the pledges both during Spring and in the Fall. Congratulations, Pledge Class of 2010, get ready for the best 3 years of your life.

Andrew Adams -- Belmont, MA

Ryan Ballenger -- New

While Winter Quarter has been even more cold and wet than what we've come to expect at Stanford, the brothers of Alpha Omega have certainly not let this get us down. The lull that typically accompanies such weather on this beautiful campus couldn't penetrate our Chapter, rejuvenated by changes both on campus and off. We had several brothers return to campus from Australia, Barcelona, Beijing, Berlin, and Oxford with a new perspective of the world and a new appreciation for college life.