Photo by BOB HALLINEN / Anchorage Daily News
UAA student John Wilcox was rejected by a fraternity so he started his own, Phi Omicron Delta, with UAA as the charter chapter.
John Wilcox, a fifth-year "super senior" at the University of Alaska Anchorage, has a shaggy haircut, ripped jeans and an eyebrow ring. He describes his spiritual persuasion as druid and wears sandals without socks exclusively. Even in the snow.Sig Ep is clean-cut and bookish? Who knew?
Still, Wilcox was surprised last year when his application to join the clean-cut, bookish UAA fraternity, Sigma Phi Epsilon, or Sig Ep, was denied.
That's how POD, UAA's first and only local fraternity, began. Phi Omicron Delta will celebrate its one-year birthday in the fall
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"There were people concerned about the way I dress, some were concerned that I was a Satanist," Wilcox said. "And, they discussed my shoes."
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