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  About Acacia Fraternity
Acacia isn't the oldest, or the largest, or the most famous college fraternity, but its origin is distinctive
Acacia Fraternity was founded on May 12, 1904 at the University of Michigan by fourteen Master Masons.
fraternity house would be free of the social vices and unbecoming activities that for years had been a blot on
www.uiowa.edu /~acacia/about.html   (419 words)

  
  Acacia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Acacia is a genus of shrubs and trees of Gondwanian origin belonging to the Subfamily Mimosoideae of the Pea Family (Family Fabaceae), first described from Africa by Linnaeus in 1773.
Acacia armata is the Kangaroo-thorn of Australia, Acacia giraffae, the Camelthorn of Africa.
Acacia heterophylla from Réunion island, and Acacia koa from the Hawaiian Islands are excellent timber trees.
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 Acacia Fraternity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Acacia was one of the charter members of the North-American Interfraternity Conference in 1909.
Acacia Fraternity was founded on May 12, 1904 by a group of 14 Freemasons attending the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Acacia Fraternity became International in 1988 at the 45th Conclave with the petitioning of two Canadian chapters the University Of Western Ontario Chapter and the Carleton University Chapter.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Acacia_Fraternity   (965 words)

  
 Fraternities and sororities - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fraternities are all-male or mixed-sex; the female-only equivalent is called a sorority, a word coined for Gamma Phi Beta in 1874.
In the case of fraternities and sororities that have disaffiliated from a national organization, the Greek letters chosen for the name of the organization are often a derivation of the previous name (for example, Phi Tau is the former Tau chapter of Phi Sigma Kappa) and thus bear no special secret meaning.
Though the Delta fraternity protagonists were meant to be portrayed positively in the film, it is often used by those skeptical of fraternities to describe the dangers of the binge drinking culture seen in fraternities.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fraternities_and_sororities   (3456 words)

  
 ACACIA - History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Acacia isn't the oldest, or the largest, or the most famous college fraternity, but its origin is distinctive and its record distinguished.
Acacia Fraternity was founded on May 12, 1904 at the University of Michigan by fourteen Master Masons.
The members were to be motivated by a desire for high scholarship and of such character that the fraternity house would be free of the social vices and unbecoming activities that for years had been a blot on the fraternity life of the nation.
www.ucoacacia.org /history.htm   (363 words)

  
 History of Acacia Ohio Chapter
The members of the newly formed Trowel Fraternity petitioned Ohio University in January of 1947 to become recognized as a student organization of young men around the campus possessing the state or quality of being brothers commonly referred to as a local fraternity.
Trowel Fraternity was then informed that it first had to serve a two year probationary period before the group could be formally recognized as a local fraternity.
The recolonization of Acacia Fraternity at Ohio University began in the fall of 1987 during the expansion of the university's Greek System.
oak.cats.ohiou.edu /~acacia/history.html   (796 words)

  
 Acacia Fraternity: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Acacia distinguishes itself from other fraternities by being one of three national fraternities that uses a word instead of Greek[For more info, click on this link] letters.
Acacia is also the only national fraternity to have a Greek[Click link for more facts about this topic] word rather than Greek[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link] letters as its name.
The badge[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] of Acacia is traditionally made of gold inlaid with rubies and pearls along the edges.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ac/acacia_fraternity.htm   (1237 words)

  
 Acacia Fraternity - Missouri Chapter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Distinguished men in every field of endeavor and every sector of community and national life have acclaimed thier college fraternity membership as one of the most significant factors in their personal growth, because fraternity living offers insights and experiences that cannot be found in any classroom or textbook.
Acacia's policy is that each chapter maintains a fun yet responsible social policy that promotes responsible choices and the dignity of every individual as well as zero tolerance for illegal activities.
Acacia understands that many people have negative opinions about fraternities and that some of those opinions may even be well founded.
www.acaciamu.org /links.htm   (558 words)

  
 IFC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Acacia National Fraternity was founded in 1904, while the Shippensburg chapter was chartered in 1967.
The goal of the fraternity is to secure members of highest quality, permanent in their allegiance to the Fraternity, not only during college days but throughout life.
The objectives of the fraternity are the promotion of friendship, the development of character, the diffusion of liberal culture, and the advancement of justice.
www.ship.edu /~deanstu/Greeks/Ifc/IfcFrat   (763 words)

  
 Acacia Fraternity | Why Join Acacia?
Moreover, the Acacia Fraternity Foundation assists deserving Acacians with cash scholarships — over $200,000.00 in scholarships and educational grants were awarded by the foundation during the 2002-2003 academic year alone.
Acacia Fraternity is dedicated to building leaders by providing a wealth of leadership opportunities for our members.
Acacia's policy is that each chapter maintains a fun yet responsible social policy that promotes responsible choices and the dignity of every individual as well as zero tolerance for illegal activities, including underage consumption of alcohol.
www.acacia.org /about_rush.htm   (266 words)

  
 Kansas State Collegian: Acacia fraternity returning to campus 08/30/01   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The fraternity was kicked off of campus for no less than five years, but in April 2000, alumni pleaded with the Fraternity Council of Presidents to lessen the sentence.
The outpouring of Acacia alumni from Kansas and the rest of the Midwest is what has impressed Robel and the rest of the university, she said.
Acacia will have to follow the same recruitment guidelines as all other fraternities -- no alcohol is allowed at recruitment activities and no high school seniors sign until May of their senior year.
www.kstatecollegian.com /stories/083001/new_acacia.shtml   (647 words)

  
 Cornell Acacia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
At Acacia, we take pride in being one of the top fraternities at Cornell and we believe strongly in five aspects of college life: academics, brotherhood, social activity, campus/community involvement, and athletics.
Fraternity men represent a very small percentage, only two percent, of the male population in the United States.
Fraternity men have gone on to hold many of the top positions in our nation, from the business world to the political arena.
www.cornellacacia.org /rush.php   (577 words)

  
 KSU Acacia - History of The KSU Acacia Fraternity
In order to preserve the future of Acacia at K-State, the Acacia Board of Directors was created in 1999 to reinvent the fraternity and deliver a new experience to today's college student.
Comprised of approximately twenty-five men, the board is responsible for coordinating National Acacia Fraternity policies as appropriate in the operation of the Men of Acacia chapter.
Acacia is striving to recruit young men who are dedicated to lifelong improvement and strive for excellence in leadership, scholarship and character.
www.ksuacacia.org /natfrat/ksuhistory.asp   (322 words)

  
 ::Go Greek::
The main purpose of Acacia Fraternity is "to strengthen the ties of friendship; one with another".
Acacia Fraternity is a group of men, working together, playing together, and helping each other through these unforgettable years we spend in college.
Acacia offers many academic resources such as tutoring in nearly any field of study, in house study room, ADSL internet access to every room, an academic scholarship, and group study hours.
www.uwgreek.com /frat/frats/acacia.html   (338 words)

  
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The University of Vermont Judicial Council on Saturday banished the Acacia fraternity until the year 2000 as punishment for a hazing incident with racial overtones.
Fraternity members could not be reached for comment on the latest turn of events.
The fraternity´s president, Jeff Hall, is out of town for the weekend, according to someone who answered the phone at the fraternity house on College Street on Saturday.
www.uvm.edu /~culture/uvm/acaciasusp.html   (523 words)

  
 ACACIA - Latest News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
They are also celebrating their International fraternity’s centennial anniversary.
Acacia Fraternity is a social Greek fraternity that began at the University of Michigan in 1904.
Acacia is recognized by the North American Inter-Fraternity Conference which Acacia is a founding member.
www.ucoacacia.org /news4.htm   (238 words)

  
 Pa Freemason Sept 04 Acacia Fraternity
The Acacia Fraternity began with a simple meeting between two old friends during the fall of 1903 in the University of Michigan library when these two Masonic brothers, William J. Marshall and Charles A. Sink, began lamenting the death of the University's Masonic Club of which they were members.
During Acacia's Centennial Conclave, held in Indianapolis, IN on July 21-24, the future of this great fraternity was decided by its delegates when an aggressive strategic plan was adopted to ensure the future of the Acacia Fraternity for another hundred years.
Acacia's Masonic heritage was emphasized in the strategic plan, and chapters are being ever more so encouraged to reach out to their local Masonic lodges to form relationships that will be mutually beneficial.
www.pagrandlodge.org /freemason/0904/acacia.html   (960 words)

  
 Kansas State Collegian: Acacia fraternity returns to campus after 3-year hiatus 08/29/02   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Riley, an Acacia alumnus, helped lead a task force that conducted a two-year study project to rebuild the chapter, which lost Interfraternity Council standing in 1999 for violating hazing and alcohol policies.
Joseph Thomas, Acacia's president and junior in architectural engineering, said fulfilling the goals of the leadership program is one of the chapter's top priorities.
The fraternity members also recently moved back into their house on Lee Street and are completing renovations.
www.kstatecollegian.com /stories/082902/new_acacia.shtml   (601 words)

  
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We, of course, are familiar with the significance of the SPRIG OF ACACIA.
It is in the role of PYTHAGORAS that the candidate for membership in ACACIA assumes the obligation in the third degree of its ritual.
This house was sold to another fraternity in 1967 and a new fifty-man house, at a cost of $225,000.00, was constructed on the lake and occupied in 1969.
www.masoniclight.com /papers/16acacia.txt   (1071 words)

  
 Why Rush Acacia at IWU   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Acacia is found traditionally at the better colleges and universities throughout the country, and internationally.
Acacia is a business as well, and the experience of making the business succeed is one that will help all of us in developing the necessary skills needed to get ahead in the real world.
Acacia wants independently strong people that will not conform to what the fraternity wants them to be, but brings their strength to Acacia, and makes Acacia what the individuals want it to be.
www.iwu.edu /~acacia/rush.html   (473 words)

  
 Acacia Fraternity at The Ohio State University
Acacia is the name of a far Eastern evergreen tree that can grow in the most rugged of conditions.
Acacia provides lifelong memories and also networking with other chapters and alumni from around the United States and Canada for when you are ready to graduate and find a carreer out in the real world.
Fraternity pledges are expected to learn about the fraternity they pledge through a process called pledge education, which prepares them for membership.
acacia.org.ohio-state.edu /rush.htm   (626 words)

  
 ACACIA Fraternity - The Penn State Chapter
Acacia Fraternity is dedicated to building leaders by providing a wealth of leadership opportunities for our members.
Members of Acacia are encouraged to participate in intramural sports, a system in which athletes of all caliber find camaraderie and physical challenge.
Acacia's policy is that each chapter maintains a fun yet responsible social policy that promotes responsible choices and the dignity of every individual as well as zero tolerance for illegal activities, including underage consumption of alcohol.
www.acaciapsu.com /rush.html   (266 words)

  
 Acacia Fraternity - Missouri Chapter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Members were to be motivated by a desire for high scholarship and of such character that the fraternity would be free of the social vices and unbecoming activities that for years had been a blot on the fraternity life.
The 13th Chapter of Acacia was founded on May 17th 1907 by a handful of men that looked for a fraternal experience that fostered the ideals they cherished as Freemasons.
The men that have been chosen to launch the maiden voyage of Acacia into the 21st Century have been chosen because they understood joining this brotherhood is a lifelong commitment that will teach them how to seek Truth and give Light.
www.acaciamu.org /news.htm   (651 words)

  
 Network for Good :: Organization Details
The Foundation provides educational grants to Acacia Fraternity, Inc. to provide educational materials and leadership training services to its 1700+ student members on 36 college and university campuses across the U.S. and Canada.
The Acacia Fraternity Foundation exists to provide scholarships to student Acacians and support the worthy educational and leadership activities of Acacia Fraternity.
As the Acacia Fraternity continues to work with its strategic plan created in 2004, the AFF will review the educational goals of the SP and identify ways in which to more aggresively campaign for financial support these new programs.
www.guidestar.org /pqShowGsReport.do?partner=networkforgood&npoId=488414   (504 words)

  
 Anti-Masonic Examples: Acacia Press
Acacia Press was convinced the world had conspiracies galore and they were right there with loads of books to sell that would 'prove' it.
In their mind (although it was most likely that Acacia Press was but one individual), the Masons were responsible for American President John Kennedy's Assassination ("The organization that could have pulled off the Kennedy assassination cover-up is American Freemasonry.") and you could have read a VERY detailed explanation of why they thought so here.
Acacia Press also asserted that the actions and activities of John Quincy Adams, a president of the United States nearly two hundred years ago, and of a political party that existed for about six years in the very early part of the 1800s both have major relevance today.
www.masonicinfo.com /acacia.htm   (960 words)

  
 Why name it after a tree?
Acacia originated from a group of masons who wanted to form a fraternity unique to the Greek system.
And Acacia was choosen for its symbolic overtones.
Acacia members agreed that the unusual name is a conversation piece, but it also has its disadvantages.
www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/1991/12/12-05-91tdc/12-05-91dnews-07.asp   (537 words)

  
 Cornell News: Acacia fraternity awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Steven L. Stein, Class of 1973, was presented the award by chapter president Thomas Balcerski, Class of 2005, at the Fall Scholarship Banquet of the Cornell chapter Sept. 12.
The Award of Merit is Acacia's highest honor, recognizing individuals who have rendered outstanding service to the fraternity or attained a high position in their community or profession.
Stein said the strength of Acacia is that it allows its members to be strong individuals.
www.news.cornell.edu /releases/Sept04/Acacia.awards.lgk.html   (359 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The OSU Chapter of Acacia Fraternity is a group of college men from a variety of backgrounds working together to succeed academically and have fun in college.
Acacia is not your average "frat", we don't like snobbery or cockiness.
Acacia also offers lifetime membership in a fine International fraternal organization that stands for excellence and service.
www.orst.edu /groups/acacia/chapter.html   (389 words)

  
 Indiana Acacia Alumni > Home ( DNN 3.1.0 )   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Acacia was subsequently the only top team left in the main field with the ability to chase ATO.
Unfortunately for Acacia, under the yellow flag, Arnesen extended his lead on the field from a quarter lap to a half lap without race officials taking corrective action.
Brother Frake’s dedication to his fraternity, academics and sports was the spring board to a becoming a successful and dedicated news reporter, father, husband and brother.
www.indianaacacia.org /alumni/Home/tabid/127/mid/474/ShowAll/True/Default.aspx   (1128 words)

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