Stephen Yeargin

I am attending my first “Family Day” as an alumnus of Sigma Phi Epsilon after skipping last year’s event. Samantha and I drove up this morning for the lunch and had a bit of car trouble. It probably would not be as distressing if we had not just paid for repairs to my vehicle. I [...]

Interesting find on Facebook this evening.
No, I am not heading to UT Martin this weekend to partake in the events pictured. I believe that these kind of events are specificly the reason that fraternity and sorority memberships are on the decline despite increases in university enrollment. The public backlash across the nation is coming to [...]

Stephen B. Shanklin, my former college fraternity adviser, was recently elected to serve as our national president at the 50th Grand Chapter Conclave in Atlanta, Ga. Here is a link to his acceptance speech focusing on the future of Sigma Phi Epsilon.
Related: On the Shoulders of Giants - Conclave 2007

This week marks a year since we decided to move to Nashville. Eventually leaving our college town was never in doubt, but some circumstances hastened that departure. In hindsight, it was arguably the best move we could have come up with, but at the time I had quite a few mixed feelings about it.
This weekend [...]

One of my jobs as an alternate is to sit in on committee meetings and the like, mine being Bylaws Purple. We handle all sorts of resolutions that deal specificily with modifying the Grand Chapter Bylaws, and in effect the local bylaws of every chapter.
So after a heated morning in committee (none of the resolutions [...]

So rather than being able to write a little while at the conference (which I’m still doing), I’m limited to posting these a lot later than I wanted to. More on that later.
I arrived at the hotel a little past 1 p.m. this afternoon. It wasn’t very clear what I was supposed to do [...]

August arrived with little fanfare, although I was surprised that I missed Al Gore launching a television network in the headlines. My take on Current TV is that it looks like VH1 or MTV before they became hyper-obsessed with reality television. I don’t see it being added to the UT Martin lineup anytime soon, however.
There’s [...]

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It’s a big relief now that this past week is over. Two days of The Pacer/SPJ “Newspaper Design Crash Course” has worn me out, coupled with Tennessee Kappa Family Day festivities. I hope to get photos up on the Web site as soon as I track down the owners of the digital cameras. The training [...]

So much for a smooth transition to a new server. What I figured would be just a plug-in-and-turn-on operation ended up taking almost half a month. Just goes to show you get what you pay for; in my case it is free.
We’ve swept through these last few weeks quickly, churning out several issues of the [...]