SARF - sounds like something I used to do after a long hard night at the local watering hole.
Some people call them Greek RAs. Some call them narcotic officers. To the university, though, they’re SARFs — graduate students who live in fraternity and sorority houses to provide chapters with advice and keep things in order.
Most fraternities and all sororities have house directors, who live with chapters, are accountable to their housing corporations and deal mostly with housing concerns. But the university is hiring SARFs — student assistant residential fellows — to live with chapters and give them anything from advice on housing issues to programming suggestions and policy infractions. Heidi Biffl, housing coordinator for the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, said she’d like SARFs to eventually replace house directors in fraternity and sorority houses.
The office is hiring eight SARFs to move into houses by August 1, and it began the SARF program two years ago in Pi Kappa Alpha and Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternities. Sigma Phi Epsilon President and junior physiology and neurobiology major Jon Hodax said his chapter has grown quite attached to Tiki Ayiku, its SARF.
“All of the brothers really love her,” he said. “[SARFs are] more knowledgeable and more prepared to help you out ... they’re very hands-on, they’re very willing to be involved.”
Now we know where the prospective RS candidates can go when the Foundation stops paying the stipend.
