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...tension throughout the fraternity. But despite these conflicts between love and brotherhood, she has enjoyed her term as the sweetheart and says she counts the brothers among her closest guy friends. “I am honored that they chose me,” she says. “[Sigma Chi] is very good nationally...
Appropriately enough, current Sigma Chi Sweetheart Katharine S. Widland ’04 met her boyfriend, Ruben Marinelarena ’02-’03, when she bid on him at a date auction hosted by sorority Delta Gamma. Since their first date, Widland has been a fixture at fraternity events. She and Marinelarena even stayed at the Sigma Chi house in Daytona, Fla., last intersession. Jacquet said Widland’s selection began earlier this semester, when the chapter nominated several sweetheart candidates. At a meeting two weeks later, the brothers held a vote in the same...
After the meeting, Marinelarena, a Marine reservist who was activated in January, called his girlfriend from a base in North Carolina to congratulate her on her election and to serenade her with “The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi,” the fraternity’s traditional song, written in 1911. It is as if the song was written for Widland: “The blue of her eyes and the gold of her hair / Are a blend of the western sky / And the moonlight beams on the girl of my dreams / She’s the Sweetheart...
...Sigma Chi chapters nationwide, the serenading of the sweetheart is one of the rituals of the pledge process. Pledges are required to memorize the slightly dippy song and to perform it for the sweetheart. Jacquet admits that the pledges’ lack of musical talent sometimes results in a pathetic rendition, but Widland says she enjoys the performances. “It’s the only time in my life when I can have 51 guys call me ‘sweetheart’ and not have my boyfriend get mad,” she says...
...colleges where Greek life dominates students’ social lives, and fraternities tap kegs in their very own houses, the role of the sweetheart is more active. Just ask Cara A. Sequino, a friendly sophomore who is the Sigma Chi sweetheart at the University of Miami, as well as a member of the Delta Gamma sorority. In a typically sweet-hearted gesture, she delivered candy and Britney Spears cards to the brothers in celebration of Valentine’s Day. She serves as a consultant on the coolness of the rushes during the pledge process and then attends...