Benefit Show for Hurricane Ondoy

On November 13th, Alpha Psi Rho and Andres Bonifacio Samahan of San Diego State University through a Benefit show for the victims of Hurricane Ondoy. Hurricane Ondoy was a Hurricane that hit the North part of the Philippines. Ondoy dumped a total of 455 millimeters of rain in Quezon City alone in 24 hours, compared to the 250 millimeters of rain that Hurricane Katrina brought to New Orleans in Louisiana in the United States.

The show did not have an admission cost but people that went could choose to donate. Some of the brhothers working that night was Scott Chen, Kim Impreso, Justin Villanueva, Justin Calica, and David Tong.

Overall the concert was successful raising around $500.

The gentlemen of Alpha Psi Rho would like to thank the many people that donated for this cause.

Marching for the Lolo's

On July 26, 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a military order conscriptingthe Philippine Commonwealth Army and Old Philippine Scouts under the U.S. Armed Forces. Along with this order came the promise of full benefits as veterans of the US military. However, in 1946, the US Congress passed the Recission Act which reversed this promise stripping these soldiers of all the benefits promised. While the House of Representatives has passed the "Filipino Veterans Equity Act of 2008," which would make one-time payments of $15,000 to Filipinos who are U.S. citizens and $9,000 to non-citizen Filipino veteran, the Senate has not acted on the legislation passed by the House. Out of every single country allied with the US during WWII, the Philippines is the sole nation that has not received benefits for their veterans. This past Wednesday, November 11, 2008, hundreds marched including the gentlemen of Alpha Psi Rho in solidarity to recognize and support the struggle to give the remaining 18,000 out of over 200,000 veterans the rights and honor they deserve in defense of freedom.

This One Was for you JP

October 27th was the Championship Game for the united sorority and fraternity council intramural football. The two teams were Alpha Psi Rho and Gamma Zeta Alpha.

Although it was a very hard season for the football team, Football Captain Jon Dalupan managed to get Alpha Psi Rhos first Football Championship. The finishing score was 12-6.

This was the very first football championship won by Alpha Psi Rho and the game was dedicated to Jeremy Pallon. We have you and your family in our hearts brother. Rest in Paradise.

Thank you everybody for your support and come watch us this upcoming Spring defending our title as the Spring 08 Basketbal Champs.

ABBAS
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Big Bear Summer Retreat 09

From Aug. 14th through Aug. 16th, the Gentlemen of Alpha Psi Rho had their annual summer retreat. We handled business and also had some fun. Work hard play hard. Some of the Lady Rhos also came up to enjoy the weekend. This year it was at Big Bear. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.

Yep, fun weekend.

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Tri Brhotherhood in SD

On July 24, Summer of 2009, the brhothers of Alpha Psi Rho had a tri brhotherhood with all there three chapters down in San Diego. Cal State University Northridge and San Marcos made the trip down to kick it with the brhos of Alpha Chapter. In the Afternoon, all 3 chapters and lady rhos met up at South Mission Beach to chill and eat some bbq. There were games of Volleyball, Football, and Basketball.

Later that night, all the brhos gathered up at Westfalls to chill and mingle with brhos they barely see. The night ended with CSUN heading back up to L.A. The Brhothers of Alpha Chapter would like to thank Beta and Gamma for coming down and kicken it with us. We know it was a long drive so we greatly appreciate a lot of you guys comin down. Also a special thank you to the many old school brhos for comin out and spendin some of your time with us.

Alpha Psi Rho Conquers Cowles Mountain

On July 10th, B.J. Gerona planned a brhotherhood hike in Cowells Mountain. The trail we normally use is Mission Trails so this was a first time we would have the hike at Cowells. The time we were supposed to meet was 6:30 at Westfalls but some came a little late and we left Westfalls at 7:30.

We got to Cowells Mountain around 8:00. We stretched and got ready and as we were doing that, we saw other hikers with there professional gear on and walking sticks. We joked around how we were not properly ready for this and looked at the trail we were going to take. I believe it was the Big Rock Trail? I think it was a 5 out of 5 trail meaning the most difficult. I also found the trail that we took online, heres what the website said,

"This most difficult approach to Cowles’ summit is also the most beautiful".

We started the hike and Jon D. almost got us lost the first minute taking the wrong trail. Thankfully some hikers passed us and told us the right trail. The first 10 minutes felt like we were just going through peoples backyards. Then we started going further in and it turned into a real hike.

Rough footing, hedges, and steep hills. This hike was longer than the Mission Trails hike. From the guide, I think it was a full 5 miles going up and back. We got to this fork and for a second I thought we reached the peak but turns out it was only the half way there part. We took a small break, pictures, and Charlee took a crap in the bushes.

This is how it went:

"Hey, whered charlee go?"

"Idk, probably in the bushes"

"Charlee!!, where are you!"

(Hear a fart in the bushes, but no response from charlee)

Mid way point

After Charlee took care of business, we continued on. We ran up this long hill and when we got on top, we saw a long windy road that looked like it was the end. Fastened up the pace and stopped by a part where it had a really nice view.

After that, we went a little bit further and we finally got to the top. The feeling of accomplishment came to us when we touched the rock.

Took a couple of video footage when we were at the top and we saw the whole San Diego Region. We saw Chappy and State and a bunch of other areas. We then took a group picture and made our way down the mountain.

Lake Murray

Chappy

State

Alpha Psi Rho

We Above Everything

It was challenging going down since it was really slippery. We got to the place where it forked and then took the trail that we thought we took going up. Turns out, we took the wrong one and came out of the mountain in a different starting location. The phrase of the day was, " I dont remember this!"

The part of the hike coming down that for sure told us we werent on the right trail was that we passed by a little river and bridge. We looked at the trail guide and turns out, we were just half a mile from where we started so we just jogged and saw our cars down the road.

Alpha Psi Rho Conquers Cowells Mountain.

July 10, 2009.

Brhos: B.J. Gerona, Daniel Jung, Charlee Soumountha, Justin Enriquez, John Dalupan, Jon Miranda, Kim Impreso, David Tong.

ABBAS

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Doin' Work

The Brhothers of Alpha Psi Rho are putting in major work hours at petco for the ten year Anniversary coming up in Spring of 2010.

Thursday: Jon Miranda, Jason Vicente, Kim Impreso, Justin Villanueva, Ron Pascual, Andrew Delmundo, William Phan, and Kenny Tran





Friday: Jon Miranda, John Dalupan, Kim Impreso, Jason Vicente, Justin Villanueva, Andrew Delmundo, Chris Alquizar, Jerry Lu, and Nathaniel Gepila


Sunday: Jerry Lu, John Dalupan, Jason Vicente


10 Year is going to be Dope!!