The Purdue Pi Kappa Phi chapter added 20 men to its initiation roster on Feb. 5 in a ceremony at Camp Tecumseh.
The newest members bring the number of initiated members at the Omega chapter to 2,292 since its founding in 1922. Three of the newly initiated were legacies – two blood brothers of current undergraduates and another who is a brother-in-law of an Omega Pi Kapp.
Those initiated include:
- Nate Baacke, exploratory studies, Medfield, Massachusetts
- Zane Barnett, finance, Westfield, Indiana
- Lawrence Coan, business management, Middlebury, Indiana
- Tanner Corns, business management, Goshen, Indiana
- Luca Hansen, exploratory studies, Brighton, Michigan
- Henry Gebke, first-year engineering, Indianapolis, Indiana
- Greg Gottlieb, data science, Carmel, Indiana
- Nathan Guzek, kinesiology, Valparaiso, Indiana
- Carson Harrison, animal sciences, Speedway, Indiana
- Will Krebs, engineering, Angola, Indiana
- Ryan Lampe, management, Centerville, Ohio
- Steph Maramaldi, first-year engineering, Wellesley, Massachusetts
- Elijah Marcov, finance, Indianapolis, Indiana
- Nick Reid, exploratory studies, Naperville, Indiana
- Adam Smith, business analytics, St. Louis, Missouri
- Jackson Smith, visual communications design, Speedway, Indiana
- Tim Steele, mechanical engineering technology, Westfield, Indiana
- Ben Stizman, computer science, Fishers, Indiana
- Krishna Vadlamani, finance, East Windsor, New Jersey
- Jake Veldman, first-year engineering, Raleigh, North Carolina