Alpha Omicron Pi hosts open house this weekend
Jordain Carney
Issue date: 2/27/09 Section: News
After watching the construction of their house during the fall semester, members of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority finally will welcome members of the university and community into their new home 10 a.m. Saturday.
"Everyone is invited to attend," said Meagan Murphy, AOPi vice president. "We would love for people to come and look around our wonderful new home."
The house cost more than $6 million to build and took less than a year to complete from the groundbreaking on Jan. 26, 2008, to when sorority members began to move in.
Prior to its new home on Maple Street, across from the Inn at Carnall Hall and beside the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house, AOPi members lived in the Phoenix House on Arkansas Avenue, between the Farmhouse and Pi Kappa Alpha fraternities.
AOPi was established on campus in August 2006, and the sorority headquarters has planned to build a house on the UA campus since then, Murphy said.
"Everyone is excited. It is better than I could have imagined," said Murphy, who remembers going through recruitment and seeing plans for the house in the fall of 2007.
Murphy said her favorite part about the new house is either the work-out room downstairs or the media room.
"The media room is such a great place to sit, hang out and watch movies with your friends," she said.
Not only are AOPi members proud of their new house, but other members of the Greek community are celebrating, as well.
"The AOPi house is a great addition to our Greek community," said Parice Bowser, director of Greek Life. The house will be a positive living environment for its members, "and the structure will be able to stand as a legacy full of tradition for years to come."
Bowser, who saw the house in December while it was being decorated, said she thought it was awesome.
"I would like to send heartiest congratulations to the women of Alpha Omicron Pi as they dedicate their magnificent new home on Maple Avenue," Chancellor G. David Gearhart said. "The house is a beautiful new addition to the university and has greatly improved the aesthetics of Maple Avenue.
The addition of the AOPi house enhances the UA's strong sorority program, as well as the entire Greek program, he said.
"Everyone is invited to attend," said Meagan Murphy, AOPi vice president. "We would love for people to come and look around our wonderful new home."
The house cost more than $6 million to build and took less than a year to complete from the groundbreaking on Jan. 26, 2008, to when sorority members began to move in.
Prior to its new home on Maple Street, across from the Inn at Carnall Hall and beside the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house, AOPi members lived in the Phoenix House on Arkansas Avenue, between the Farmhouse and Pi Kappa Alpha fraternities.
AOPi was established on campus in August 2006, and the sorority headquarters has planned to build a house on the UA campus since then, Murphy said.
"Everyone is excited. It is better than I could have imagined," said Murphy, who remembers going through recruitment and seeing plans for the house in the fall of 2007.
Murphy said her favorite part about the new house is either the work-out room downstairs or the media room.
"The media room is such a great place to sit, hang out and watch movies with your friends," she said.
Not only are AOPi members proud of their new house, but other members of the Greek community are celebrating, as well.
"The AOPi house is a great addition to our Greek community," said Parice Bowser, director of Greek Life. The house will be a positive living environment for its members, "and the structure will be able to stand as a legacy full of tradition for years to come."
Bowser, who saw the house in December while it was being decorated, said she thought it was awesome.
"I would like to send heartiest congratulations to the women of Alpha Omicron Pi as they dedicate their magnificent new home on Maple Avenue," Chancellor G. David Gearhart said. "The house is a beautiful new addition to the university and has greatly improved the aesthetics of Maple Avenue.
The addition of the AOPi house enhances the UA's strong sorority program, as well as the entire Greek program, he said.
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