Citizenship

First off found a new show everyone should check out

Party Down

Found it on netflix really flipping funny

On to Citizenship

What does it mean to me?

For me citizenship is really just a community of people having similar ideal (or values) that band together for a greater goal. Now this not only applies to a country, but even a smaller group. States, Cities, Universities and even fraternities. So I am going to talk about the level that effects me everyday.

Fraternities are small communities containing people with similar values that have banded together for a greater goal of brotherhood. So now what does it mean to me? To be a good citizen, one must be a good brother.

To be a good brother is not hard. All I ask of my brothers is to be kind and to care for one another. For them to realize that the whole is greater then the parts. That no one is better then FIJI itself. Actually Kaseman just put a sign in his room "More Phi Gamm Less Self." Being brothers allows us to work together and have a bunch of unique ideas. So to be a good brother one must be able to hear multiple ideas and help form an goal that will better the group as a whole.

I only ever ask my brothers to do these simple things, if I did not believe that I do not already due these myself.

Here's a fun video

THUNDER SNOW!!!!!!!! NEXT SNOW TORNADOES

As always

PROUD to be AMERICAN

and DAMN PROUD to be a FIJI

My Ritual

Good evening guys, hope the weather finds you well!

Currently watching the American Skins with Ozzy

(not as good as the British version)

On to the more serious topic of living the Ritual,

As a man of Phi Gamma Delta, we are required to place three values in order. Scholarship, Fraternity, Self. I live my life by these values. My daily ritual includes all of these. Besides everyday having class, I take a scholarship to a different level. For me, scholarship does not equal grades, but a purpose of learning. Everyday, I try and learn something new about a subject I have little to no knowledge about. Essentially, my head is full of random facts. Don't know why, but its something I started a long time ago.

Fraternity. This I always place above myself. I love all my brothers and will do almost any for them. I say almost most anything, because currently I don't see myself being able to kill someone. As most of my brothers know, when someone asks for help, I am one of the first to jump up. As part of my daily ritual, I try to spend as much time as possible helping my brothers, or often just spending time with them. Even as I write this I am watching t.v. with Garrison, Cox, and Ozzy.

Self. This might be the 3rd most important in my life at FIJI. Its one I take very seriously. I enjoy my alone time. This is often the time in my day when I am able to reflect on what happened. I am able to determine whether, I did obtain knowledge for the day, or have been a good brother. If I determine I have not been, then I am to reflect on how to improve next time. If everything was done, I am able to look forward to my next day.

I try to live my life according to the ritual, some days I do not, but more then not, I am able to.

To go along with my recent posts I include a video. This blog contains the guy before Bill Nye the Science guy. Julius Sumner Miller's experiments often don't quite work, but this guy continues as if they did, often with some hilarious one liners. If you have never seen one of his videos please watch this one and many more on youtube

ENJOY!

Funny?

As always

Proud to be an American

and Damn Proud to be a FIJI

-Weaver

I am Proud to be Both a Buckeye and a FIJI

I wished to start this week with this crazy good video.

Every time I hear Carmen Ohio I get chills. This video shows how much FIJI is involved with this campus.

There is no better combination then being both a Buckeye and a FIJI

As always

Proud to be an American

and damn Proud to be a FIJI

-Weaver

The Odyssey

If your a fan then don't read.

Also I will not be including anyone's name or fraternity or sorority out of kindness

Website: The Odyssey

Where to start with this.

The odyssey is a student run news magazine, made for greeks, by the greeks. This is not the problem. I have no issue with celebrating the great things our community does, or presenting articles about issues facing our community.

Lets look at last weeks edition. On the cover shows a bunch of fraternity men enjoying a football game. Taking a closer look reveals a beer sitting on someones lap. Is this the image we want to portray to our community. I could go further into the cover, but I would have to name names.

On top of that I have no problem saying the editing is very, very poor. Don't get me wrong, I am not the best writer, but I think I could do better.

I can go on for hours, so just ask me about it sometime and I will gladly tell you

Oh and hears a kick-ass recruitment video

As always, Proud to be an American

And Damn Proud to to be a FIJI

-Weaver

Values #1 Friendship

First I know the time I am posting this most of you will not have read it, but I have thought deeply on how to write this and came up with a solution. I plan on writing about one of my values every week. So your looking at at least 3 blogs from me a week. (One for class, one of my values, and one about something completely different) Get pumped. Alright here we go

Friendship

Before I begin funny story about the word friend. Since I am dyslexic words like friend were very difficult to spell, until my of my teachers told me to remember it like this. FRIday is the END of the week. That way I don't switch up the i and the e. Anyways.........

What exactly is friendship?

A friend is someone who bails you out of jail. A true friend is someone who sits with you in the jail cell and says "Wow. That was fun." I like this quote solely because its a great example of a true friend. While I believe friendship is there to push us further, but it is also there to keep a good head on our shoulders. With that being said friendship is a two way street, not only do my brothers care for me, but I also care for them. I will do almost anything for my brothers. Whether thats simply going to the library with them, to staying up all night talking about their issues. One of FIJI's sayings is "not for college days alone" and this could not be more true. We are not only a group of men with similar values, but a great group of friends. I don't look at brotherhood as a task I have to do, but just a time to hang out with some of the best people. Now a word from our super creepy talking dinosaur that looks after kids

I hope you didn't have your headphones in and everyone just heard you were listening to Barney. Suckers.

But really the meaning is there behind the creepiness.

Look forward to next week were we will go through my next value. Its a surprise

As always proud to be an American

and Damn Proud to be a FIJI

-Weaver

Hot Chocolate

Alright first let me apologize for the lack of blogging, I have several that I am writing, they just are not quite done, ill release them latter this week look for 4 or 5.

Anyways wanted to share this story, that happened to me over the weekend. During Sorority formal recruitment, I helped pass out hot chocolate to the poor, cold potential new members. Which was fun, most girls didn't take any, but at least said thank-you. Expect for this one girl when asked if she wanted one she said "Not from YOU!". I was not happy with this response and put a huge downer on the rest of the day.

So Sunday came around and we put our little hot coco table up again and began handing out the beverages. More girls actually stopped and talked to us, and took more hot coco. So we were feeling that maybe the day was turning around and maybe yesterday just had all the bitchy girls or something. Then one girl stopped and talked to us. She said she didn't need any but wanted to thank us for doing this and to apologize for yesterday.

Now I am not positive that she is the same one that was so rude the day before, but I am almost positive she is. After thanking us for standing out in the cold and giving hot coco to those who wanted it, she told us exactly why she was to hostel. I guess there were several sororities telling their girls that, the guys handing out hot coco threw water balloons at them two years ago. This took me back that people would say such things about FIJI. We assured the girl that it was not us, but it got me thinking. I asked around to the seniors and found that we had not thrown water balloons at the potential new members. We were told by many girls that there fraternities down the street that were cat calling and calling out numbers as girls walked by. (This really helps the greek image right?) Heres what I learned from the weekend

1) Your reputation is everything.

2) Don't Judge someone without knowing the whole story

3) Hanging with your brothers in the freezing cold could not have been more fun

4) People take notice of the small things, even if as simple as holding the door open for people or passing out hot chocolate

5) FREE HOT CHOCOLATE according to Taylor Yohe "Those words don't even go together"

And because I love the song so much

As Always Proud to be an American

and damn proud to be a FIJI

-Weaver

FIJI Till I Die

Location: Scholars Lounge at the Thompson Library

Time: 7pm

Current Music Selection: Top 25

ME

My name is Nick Weaver and I am currently in my third year while studying electrical engineering at THE Ohio State University. I have been part of greek life since I joined in winter of '09. I am dyslexic (thank God for spell check). So ill try my hardest to spell everything right, but no promises. Another cool fact about me is I am left handed. My family is something I hold very close to my heart. My sister had a seizure a few years back and almost died, so i am very protective of her. I love my parents and grandparents. I miss my grandpa very much.

Ice Hockey has been a large passion of mine since I was a child, sadly unlike LeBitch I was not able to take my talents to anyplace (mostly because I am not good enough). I still skate and play when I get the chance. I am a Blue Jackets fan first and then a Red Wings fan second. A Bengals fan and a Cavs fan. I love Germany and would love to live there for a few years. I have taken German since I was in 7th grade and have been there twice. The first time I was there, the world cup was going on, might have been one of the craziest times in my life. One thing I hold very dear to my heart is my patriotism. I have no fear showing that I am an American. I am damn proud to be an American and a Phi Gamm.

Why FIJI

My experience with Phi Gamma Delta began long ago, when I was young I noticed a tattoo below my dads left ankle, he told me it was his fraternity. What I didn't know then was just how much FIJI was going to shape my life. When I graduated high school, the discussion came up if I was going to go greek or not. I had always heard the Animal House stories from my Dad and his friends, but I didn't know if I was really cut out for that. Surprisingly at no time did my dad pressure me into joining FIJI, or even going greek.

Coming to campus and exploring the different fraternities, I soon found myself questioning if I wanted to be part of greek life. Most of the houses were in shambles and it seemed that most people seemed to drink most of the day. Now don't get me wrong, I have nothing against drinking, but there is more to life. And just as I was about to give up I visited my Dad's fraternity, Phi Gamma Delta.

Here I found something completely different then the animal house version my Dad had told me of. The house was clean, the guys were nice and didn't seem to be pressuring me to join when they first met me. Soon I wasn't rushing anywhere, I was just making friends. I received my bid, and I have not looked back. I hold all of my brothers close to my heart. My Dad and his friends are very pleased that as they say made the right decision. My Dad and I are closer then ever. They are always pushing me to make myself better, whether its going to the gym, or studying. Without them I don't know where I would be.

This Class

I am looking forward to this class. This will be a great chance to get to know many of my brothers on a more personal level. While at the same time being able to discuss the problems of the greek community and how to change stereo types.