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...training involved three-day maneuvers and enduring military-strength pepper spray, said his girlfriend of a year and half, Kate S. Widland ’04, who said she traveled to North Carolina twice over the past few months...
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...
...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 of Sigma...
...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...
...partners, Gregory N. Price ’06 and Thomas L. Widland ’06, earned their spots on the team last month by finishing first and second in an open contest held by the Computing Contest Club...