(WCCO)
Minneapolis
From Big Easy to the
Mini-Apple, three
students from Tulane
University have
decided to take up
their fraternity
brothers' offers and
move to Minneapolis,
at least for the
semester.
The three students
headed north because
of Hurricane Katrina
and now feel right at
home, thanks to their
frat brothers.
In less than a week,
the three students are
already into the
spirit of the
University of
Minnesota's homecoming
preparations at Delta
Kappa Epsilon
fraternity.
The "Deke"
frat brothers from
Cajun Country are
learning the Gopher
traditions of building
homecoming house
fronts and floats.
"I can't believe
they do that, we don't
do any of that
stuff," said
Tulane student Robert
Lewis. "It takes
hours and hours. It's
fun though."
The students came to
Minnesota just days
after evacuating New
Orleans, La.
"They bent over
backward for us, just
to get us signed up
for classes and
registered in one or
two days," Lewis
said.
The large campus has
not intimated the
students. They said
their ties to the
fraternity have made
it feel smaller.
"We just came in
immediately,"
explained Tulane
student Phil Sweeney.
"We've never met
these guys and they
opened their doors,
opened their hearts to
us."
Their northern
brothers are just as
complimentary.
"They fit in
great here,"
explained fraternity
president Dave
Jennings. "They
get along with
everyone and they've
been working so hard
to help with our
homecoming
preps."
All three Tulane
students live in the
same dorm. Each got
his own room, but they
don't have much to
fill it with.
Still, they say the
rooms are much better
than Tulane's.
"They're big,
they've got the air
conditioning going and
the mattresses are
comfortable,"
Sweeney explained.
"And there are
lots of hot girls
around too."
The fraternity held a
fund-raiser for
Katrina victims last
night at the chapter
house.
