April 17th, 2010

This past weekend was our Alumni weekend, in which many of our alums came back to visit! Many events happened, but the highlights of the weekend were a big Brother Unity event on Friday night, the many Alumni-held workshops that educated the active brothers on different aspects of Greek life, and the annual Banquet dinner on Saturday night. Pictures of the banquet are located on the Photos section, and a video that was presented will be uploaded soon. Thank you for Kenneth "Ash" Tow, Brian "M-Tech" Chan, Godfrey "D.R.A.I.N." Lee, Vincent "Kingpin" Wong, William "Villain" Wong, Warren "Sidewinder" Ng, Anthony "P.U.M.A." Li, Wei "Escobar" Shi, Shuo "Puffy" Sun, Mark "D-Sired" DeLeon, Hiep "Joe Boxer" Li, and Jian "Hades" Lin for coming down! Without you guys, this weekend wouldn't have been possible!

And a reminder on our hosted blood drive this week. This blood drive will be held this Thursday April 22nd at Alumni Hall. Please donate if you can! Each donation will contribute $4 to our THON efforts with teh Red Cross Blood Drive Club. If you cannot donate, volunteering would also be great! To volunteer for blood drive, you can go to volunteer.psu.edu and sign up! To reserve/schedule an appointment to give blood, please click here!Again, donating will help contribute to 2 great causes!

April 12th, 2010

Asian Awakening this year was a big success in terms of pleasing the crowd. This year, there were many amazing performances and everyone had a real surprise at what we had performed. We started out with a traditional Lion Dance. Following the Lion Dance was a modern twist to the Lion's routine. Finally, the brothers presented an exotic and effective work out routine to the crowd! All three of these were combined to create an an amazing performance! The video of the performance can be found in the Videos Section of the webpage. Here are some snippets at what happened during the performance:

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(Click on any snippet to enlarge)

Our event on drug abuse, which focused on marijuana use, happened this past Thursday on April 8th in Boucke. This program informed the audience on marijuana use, its effects, and how it is used throughout the world, particularly in Europe and Amsterdam. The program lasted for 1 hour long, and a documentary video was presented to the audience.

An update on an event coming up would be our hosted blood drive. This blood drive will be held on Thursday April 22nd at Alumni Hall. Please donate if you can! Each donation will contribute $4 to our THON efforts with teh Red Cross Blood Drive Club. If you cannot donate, volunteering would also be great! To volunteer for blood drive, you can go to volunteer.psu.edu and sign up! To reserve/schedule an appointment to give blood, please click here!Again, donating will help contribute to 2 great causes!

Finally, a reminder again that this weekend is our annual alumni weekend. We will be expecting a number of alumni to come back to Penn State. It will be a informative, but yet fun weekend!

March 28th, 2010

March has been a busy month for the brothers of Pi Delta Psi at Penn State. There were many events that we have taken part of. One particular one that we would like to announce that we have proudly done recently was aiding the sisters of alpha Kappa Delta Phi in cleaning up a local highway that they have adopted in the Adopt-a-Highway Program. On Sunday, March 28th, 2010, the brothers and sisters from both organizations spent a few hours cleaning up the liter that has been dumped by travelers. These highways usually run through the habitat of many animals, and this trash could really affect how they live. So cleaning up the trash that has been left there really mean something to many people, including us, because it helps those animals, and it also makes the environment a healthier and better place.

(Missing: Many people (9 people)... Picture was taken before everyone came back because of rain.)

Although March has been busy, there are a few more events that are worth mentioning that will be coming up soon! On April 10th, Penn State's Asian Pacific American Coalition is hosting its annual Asian-Cultural Awareness show called Asian Awakening. In this event, awareness of Asian culture is presented by many organizations, both Greek and Non-Greek, through a performance or two. These performances often feature cultural performances, modern performances, and presentations of cultural issues; these allow the Penn State community to know more about different Asian cultures and what is going on in the other half of the world. The brothers of Pi Delta Psi takes part of this event every year, including this year's. So come check us out; we have an awesome performance ready for you! This event will be occuring during Late Night at the HUB in Alumni Hall, starting at 9pm. Please come out and enjoy the performances!

Two more events worth mentioning: there will be a blood drive that we will be hosting soon and a drug-abuse program. The date and location of the blood drive will be announced later. Please come out and donate! Mention our organization's name, too! Every donation with the mention of our organization will donate $4 to our THON collection through the American Blood Drive Club. The date and location of the Drug-Abuse program will also be announced at a later date. Both events are planned to occur within the next two weeks, so come back and check often for details.

One last event that we would like to announce would occur during the weekend of April 17th. This weekend is dedicated to our Alumni, known as Alumni weekend. During this weekend, many of Penn State's Pi Delta Psi alumni are returning to visit. This is a weekend full of events, such as a banquet, lion shrine pictures, barbeques, workshops for current actives, etc. This will be a fun and memorable weekend, and you might just see us around campus. That weekend shows the dedication and unity that brothers will always have after they have crossed. Brotherhood is for life, and this act of coming back to visit and spend time with us in their busy working schedule after college really means something.

Come check the website after these events occur for pictures and updates!

February 20th, 2010

Pi Delta Ps Tau Chapter has been invited to perform at the WPSU's 18th Annual Connoisseur's Dinner and Auction, featuring Asian Chef Martin Yan. In celebration of Lunar New Year, the Annual Connoisseur Dinner featured an Asian Theme for the night. Although we did not stay long, we put around a 10 minute performance that pleased the crowd. Near the end of our performance, Martin Yan himself played a few beats on the drum! Thank you for inviting us to perform at this amazing event!

Pictures and an online article are located in the Multimedia Section of the webpage. Here is a direct link to the resulting webpage of the event.

February 14th, 2010

Pi Delta Psi wishes everyone here at State College and around the world Happy Lunar New Year! This holiday is celebrated by many Asian cultures and what better way to promote this holiday than perform what we are known here in State College for, Lion Dances! Throughout this week, we will be performing Lion Dances at various locations to help bring luck to the restaurants here at State College and to spread awareness of this joyful holiday. Although Lunar New Year fell on Valentines Day this year and many of the brothers had to return home to celebrate with their families, we still tried our best to let the community know how important this holiday is for the Asian community.

If you wish to come see the performances, listed below is the schedule of the place and time we will be doing the lion dance. These performances only last around 5 minutes, so if you wish to see them, please be there early!

February 15, Monday
- 4:30pm - Hunan Wok/Okinawa (on College Ave., next to McDonalds)
- 5:30pm - Fuji and Jade Restaurant
February 20, Saturday
- 2:00pm - College Buffet (next to Walmart)

February 21, Sunday
- 2:00pm - Big Bowl (on College Ave., next to the Mezzanine)
- 2:30pm - China Wok (on N. Atherton)

February 1st, 2010

Red Cross Pi Delta Ps Tau Chapter is hosting a blood drive this week on Thursday, February 4th, 2010. It will be located in Alumni Hall in the HUB from 10am-5pm. Please donate! Each blood donation will contribute $4 to the Four Diamonds Fund (THON)! Help those in need of blood and also for the kids with cancer! Be sure to mention Pi Delta Psi when you donate blood! Please be sure to register to donate blood before you actually go on Thursday! If you do not register before hand, you may not be able to donate on that day!

January 11th, 2010

Welcome back to another semester of PSU! We would like to announce that the Pi Delta Psi Fraternity, Inc. at the Pennsylvania State University has been promoted to Tau Chapter Status! After many accomplishments and feats since our establishment here at Penn State in April of 2003, the PSU Tau Chapter has advanced even further in achieving the goals the fraternity strive for. Thank you for the support from alumni and all the brothers!

In other news, be prepared to have some fun for the beginning of Spring 2010 during Rush week. The brothers here at Penn State have prepared many fun and exciting events for the next two weeks of school. Feel free to come out and enjoy yourself! Everything is free and there is no obligation to join. Most importantly, this is a great time for you to meet new people!

Front Flyer SP10
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For easier read:
1/15 (Fri) - Masquerade Party w/ the Ladies of aKDPhi - 8:30pm
1/16 (Sat) - Poker Night - 8pm
1/18 (Mon) - Basketball - 7pm
1/19 (Tues) - Billiards - 7pm
1/21 (Thurs) - Infosession and Wings @ Champs - 8:45pm
1/25 (Mon) - Bowling w/ the Ladies of aKDPhi - 8pm
1/26 (Tues) - Snowtubing w/ the Ladies of SOPi - 5:30pm
1/27 (Wed) - Infosession and Ribs @ Champs - 8:45pm
1/29 (Fri) - Tournament of Champions - 9pm
1/30 (Sat) - Back 2 School Banger - 10:30pm
1/31 (Sun) - Infosession - 5pm
2/1-2/2 (Tues) - Invites Only

If there are any questions or confusion of any sorts, you can contact us through our email at psupdpsi@gmail.com.
Questions could also be answered in a quicker manner by contacting our Rush chairs, who are as follows:

Peter "B.I.O. Hazard" Nguyen
(484) 557-2032
pxn5017@psu.edu

Kenneth "AND 1" Vidyanand
(215) 760-5226
kbv107@psu.edu

You can also join our facebook group by click here.
(http://www.facebook.com/#/group.php?gid=216656314354&ref=ts)

One last update: major revisions are expected for the website within this semester, so please bear with us if the website is down.

November 4-6, 2009

The brothers of Penn State's Pi Delta Psi Fraternity traveled to College Park, MD this weekend to participate in this year's THON efforts. If you do not know, THON is the largest student-run philanthropy in the world. The purpose of THON is to raise funds for awareness of cancer among children. Efforts to raise money for this cause is done all year round and in the spring, an event that takes place for a whole weekend is dedicated to THON. During this event, organizations who raised money can participate in a Dance Marathon (with some people actually staying up for over 36 hours dancing!).

Although the weather did not agree with us this weekend, we were able to accept a generous amount of donations from most of the residents there.

Great thanks to the brothers of the University of Maryland at College Park for hosting us and helping us out, and thank you Dan "Kratos" Oh for actually helping us by participating during the canning experience.




Pi Delta Psi from the Pennsylvania State University is officially recognized within the Penn State University community and is apart of the Multicultural Greek Council. The Penn State Tau Chapter is proud to be the first chapter of Pi Delta Psi to have formed in central Pennsylvania on April 19th, 2003. We have accomplished many feats while going through many trials and tribulations. Here you will find the information about us here at Penn State, and about our other 20 schools in which we have expanded to. We are always looking for the bright and eager minds of those who share the same views as us to further carry on our traditions. Currently we have over 40 members strong here at PSU. This year will be marking our 7th year of existence at PSU, and 16th year of existence nationally. We have grown to 25 universities nationwide, and we are still expanding. Currently we are the fastest growing Asian interest fraternity. Pi Delta Psi is here to unite everyone, through our four pillars of: Academic Achievement Cultural Awareness Righteousness Friendship/Loyalty For those who need further information please refer to the RUSH and ABOUT sections of our website, which are located on the navigation menu at the top. For other information, please email psupdpsi@gmail.com. Website is National Board Certified	April 17th, 2010 This past weekend was our Alumni weekend, in which many of our alums came back to visit! Many events happened, but the highlights of the weekend were a big Brother Unity event on Friday night, the many Alumni-held workshops that educated the active brothers on different aspects of Greek life, and the annual Banquet dinner on Saturday night. Pictures of the banquet are located on the Photos section, and a video that was presented will be uploaded soon. Thank you for Kenneth "Ash" Tow, Brian "M-Tech" Chan, Godfrey "D.R.A.I.N." Lee, Vincent "Kingpin" Wong, William "Villain" Wong, Warren "Sidewinder" Ng, Anthony "P.U.M.A." Li, Wei "Escobar" Shi, Shuo "Puffy" Sun, Mark "D-Sired" DeLeon, Hiep "Joe Boxer" Li, and Jian "Hades" Lin for coming down! Without you guys, this weekend wouldn't have been possible! And a reminder on our hosted blood drive this week. This blood drive will be held this Thursday April 22nd at Alumni Hall. Please donate if you can! Each donation will contribute $4 to our THON efforts with teh Red Cross Blood Drive Club. If you cannot donate, volunteering would also be great! To volunteer for blood drive, you can go to volunteer.psu.edu and sign up! To reserve/schedule an appointment to give blood, please click here!Again, donating will help contribute to 2 great causes! April 12th, 2010 Asian Awakening this year was a big success in terms of pleasing the crowd. This year, there were many amazing performances and everyone had a real surprise at what we had performed. We started out with a traditional Lion Dance. Following the Lion Dance was a modern twist to the Lion's routine. Finally, the brothers presented an exotic and effective work out routine to the crowd! All three of these were combined to create an an amazing performance! The video of the performance can be found in the Videos Section of the webpage. Here are some snippets at what happened during the performance: . . . . . . (Click on any snippet to enlarge) Our event on drug abuse, which focused on marijuana use, happened this past Thursday on April 8th in Boucke. This program informed the audience on marijuana use, its effects, and how it is used throughout the world, particularly in Europe and Amsterdam. The program lasted for 1 hour long, and a documentary video was presented to the audience. An update on an event coming up would be our hosted blood drive. This blood drive will be held on Thursday April 22nd at Alumni Hall. Please donate if you can! Each donation will contribute $4 to our THON efforts with teh Red Cross Blood Drive Club. If you cannot donate, volunteering would also be great! To volunteer for blood drive, you can go to volunteer.psu.edu and sign up! To reserve/schedule an appointment to give blood, please click here!Again, donating will help contribute to 2 great causes! Finally, a reminder again that this weekend is our annual alumni weekend. We will be expecting a number of alumni to come back to Penn State. It will be a informative, but yet fun weekend! March 28th, 2010 March has been a busy month for the brothers of Pi Delta Psi at Penn State. There were many events that we have taken part of. One particular one that we would like to announce that we have proudly done recently was aiding the sisters of alpha Kappa Delta Phi in cleaning up a local highway that they have adopted in the Adopt-a-Highway Program. On Sunday, March 28th, 2010, the brothers and sisters from both organizations spent a few hours cleaning up the liter that has been dumped by travelers. These highways usually run through the habitat of many animals, and this trash could really affect how they live. So cleaning up the trash that has been left there really mean something to many people, including us, because it helps those animals, and it also makes the environment a healthier and better place. (Missing: Many people (9 people)... Picture was taken before everyone came back because of rain.) Although March has been busy, there are a few more events that are worth mentioning that will be coming up soon! On April 10th, Penn State's Asian Pacific American Coalition is hosting its annual Asian-Cultural Awareness show called Asian Awakening. In this event, awareness of Asian culture is presented by many organizations, both Greek and Non-Greek, through a performance or two. These performances often feature cultural performances, modern performances, and presentations of cultural issues; these allow the Penn State community to know more about different Asian cultures and what is going on in the other half of the world. The brothers of Pi Delta Psi takes part of this event every year, including this year's. So come check us out; we have an awesome performance ready for you! This event will be occuring during Late Night at the HUB in Alumni Hall, starting at 9pm. Please come out and enjoy the performances! Two more events worth mentioning: there will be a blood drive that we will be hosting soon and a drug-abuse program. The date and location of the blood drive will be announced later. Please come out and donate! Mention our organization's name, too! Every donation with the mention of our organization will donate $4 to our THON collection through the American Blood Drive Club. The date and location of the Drug-Abuse program will also be announced at a later date. Both events are planned to occur within the next two weeks, so come back and check often for details. One last event that we would like to announce would occur during the weekend of April 17th. This weekend is dedicated to our Alumni, known as Alumni weekend. During this weekend, many of Penn State's Pi Delta Psi alumni are returning to visit. This is a weekend full of events, such as a banquet, lion shrine pictures, barbeques, workshops for current actives, etc. This will be a fun and memorable weekend, and you might just see us around campus. That weekend shows the dedication and unity that brothers will always have after they have crossed. Brotherhood is for life, and this act of coming back to visit and spend time with us in their busy working schedule after college really means something. Come check the website after these events occur for pictures and updates! February 20th, 2010 Pi Delta Ps Tau Chapter has been invited to perform at the WPSU's 18th Annual Connoisseur's Dinner and Auction, featuring Asian Chef Martin Yan. In celebration of Lunar New Year, the Annual Connoisseur Dinner featured an Asian Theme for the night. Although we did not stay long, we put around a 10 minute performance that pleased the crowd. Near the end of our performance, Martin Yan himself played a few beats on the drum! Thank you for inviting us to perform at this amazing event! Pictures and an online article are located in the Multimedia Section of the webpage. Here is a direct link to the resulting webpage of the event. February 14th, 2010 Pi Delta Psi wishes everyone here at State College and around the world Happy Lunar New Year! This holiday is celebrated by many Asian cultures and what better way to promote this holiday than perform what we are known here in State College for, Lion Dances! Throughout this week, we will be performing Lion Dances at various locations to help bring luck to the restaurants here at State College and to spread awareness of this joyful holiday. Although Lunar New Year fell on Valentines Day this year and many of the brothers had to return home to celebrate with their families, we still tried our best to let the community know how important this holiday is for the Asian community. If you wish to come see the performances, listed below is the schedule of the place and time we will be doing the lion dance. These performances only last around 5 minutes, so if you wish to see them, please be there early! February 15, Monday 4:30pm - Hunan Wok/Okinawa (on College Ave., next to McDonalds) 5:30pm - Fuji and Jade Restaurant February 20, Saturday 2:00pm - College Buffet (next to Walmart) February 21, Sunday 2:00pm - Big Bowl (on College Ave., next to the Mezzanine) 2:30pm - China Wok (on N. Atherton) February 1st, 2010 Pi Delta Ps Tau Chapter is hosting a blood drive this week on Thursday, February 4th, 2010. It will be located in Alumni Hall in the HUB from 10am-5pm. Please donate! Each blood donation will contribute $4 to the Four Diamonds Fund (THON)! Help those in need of blood and also for the kids with cancer! Be sure to mention Pi Delta Psi when you donate blood! Please be sure to register to donate blood before you actually go on Thursday! If you do not register before hand, you may not be able to donate on that day! January 11th, 2010 Welcome back to another semester of PSU! We would like to announce that the Pi Delta Psi Fraternity, Inc. at the Pennsylvania State University has been promoted to Tau Chapter Status! After many accomplishments and feats since our establishment here at Penn State in April of 2003, the PSU Tau Chapter has advanced even further in achieving the goals the fraternity strive for. Thank you for the support from alumni and all the brothers! In other news, be prepared to have some fun for the beginning of Spring 2010 during Rush week. The brothers here at Penn State have prepared many fun and exciting events for the next two weeks of school. Feel free to come out and enjoy yourself! Everything is free and there is no obligation to join. Most importantly, this is a great time for you to meet new people! (Click on image for larger view) For easier read: 1/15 (Fri) - Masquerade Party w/ the Ladies of aKDPhi - 8:30pm 1/16 (Sat) - Poker Night - 8pm 1/18 (Mon) - Basketball - 7pm 1/19 (Tues) - Billiards - 7pm 1/21 (Thurs) - Infosession and Wings @ Champs - 8:45pm 1/25 (Mon) - Bowling w/ the Ladies of aKDPhi - 8pm 1/26 (Tues) - Snowtubing w/ the Ladies of SOPi - 5:30pm 1/27 (Wed) - Infosession and Ribs @ Champs - 8:45pm 1/29 (Fri) - Tournament of Champions - 9pm 1/30 (Sat) - Back 2 School Banger - 10:30pm 1/31 (Sun) - Infosession - 5pm 2/1-2/2 (Tues) - Invites Only If there are any questions or confusion of any sorts, you can contact us through our email at psupdpsi@gmail.com. Questions could also be answered in a quicker manner by contacting our Rush chairs, who are as follows: Peter "B.I.O. Hazard" Nguyen (484) 557-2032 pxn5017@psu.edu Kenneth "AND 1" Vidyanand (215) 760-5226 kbv107@psu.edu You can also join our facebook group by click here. (http://www.facebook.com/#/group.php?gid=216656314354&ref=ts) One last update: major revisions are expected for the website within this semester, so please bear with us if the website is down. November 4-6, 2009 The brothers of Penn State's Pi Delta Psi Fraternity traveled to College Park, MD this weekend to participate in this year's THON efforts. If you do not know, THON is the largest student-run philanthropy in the world. The purpose of THON is to raise funds for awareness of cancer among children. Efforts to raise money for this cause is done all year round and in the spring, an event that takes place for a whole weekend is dedicated to THON. During this event, organizations who raised money can participate in a Dance Marathon (with some people actually staying up for over 36 hours dancing!). Although the weather did not agree with us this weekend, we were able to accept a generous amount of donations from most of the residents there. Great thanks to the brothers of the University of Maryland at College Park for hosting us and helping us out, and thank you Dan "Kratos" Oh for actually helping us by participating during the canning experience.

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