{"id":5517,"date":"2022-08-12T12:29:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T17:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=5517"},"modified":"2022-08-18T19:58:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T00:58:03","slug":"after-years-of-confusion-psi-decides-to-just-become-a-frat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/12\/after-years-of-confusion-psi-decides-to-just-become-a-frat\/","title":{"rendered":"After Years of Confusion, PSI Decides to Just Become a Frat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leadership of PSI, formerly known as the Phoenix Sustainability Initiative, announced this week that after years of being mistaken for Psi Upsilon, it would just give up and become a frat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe at PSI have always been at the forefront of environmental advocacy at UChicago. We stood for sustainability, eco-friendly infrastructure, and environmental justice,\u201d said the club in a recent press release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s all done. We\u2019re a frat now, motherfuckers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new frat, officially named \u201cPSI, no, not that one\u201d, will begin recruiting in April in honor of Earth Day. Though hazing is ostensibly banned by the group\u2019s charter, a confidential source informed The Dealer that pledges would have to undergo a variety of \u201cgreen tests\u201d to prove their commitment to the group. These tests include \u201cgetting branded with community-sourced, hormone-free blowtorches, chaining pledges to trees and forcing them to derive their nourishment from mother earth, and solving the water crisis in Flint, Michigan within five days of rushing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PSI U could not be reached for comment on this development, as the entire frat was unconscious (it\u2019s Sunday morning).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new frat, officially named \u201cPSI, no, not that one\u201d, will begin recruiting in April in honor of Earth Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2081,"featured_media":5519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5517"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5544,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5517\/revisions\/5544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}