Delta Chi has operated as a colony at Marshall University in West Virginia since 2003, and is finally being rewarded with a charter. It joins its sister chapter at West Virginia University Institute of Technology as the only Delta Chi chapters in the state. Five years is a long time to persist as a colony before achieving official chapter status; former Delta Chi recruitment chair Brandon Irby commented that usually it only takes "a few years for a new colony to develop to get students graduated." Why the Marshall colony was an outlier is not specified, though they were hardly idle while they strove towards their ultimate goal of a charter, participating in numerous charities and initiating over a hundred brothers in their half-decade existence.
Notable is Mr Irby's comment on the diverse brotherhood that the Delta Chi at Marshall encompasses: "We have people from everywhere, the Ivory Coast, Saudi Arabia, New Jersey. You can get a feel for a ton of different cultures just sitting down and talking to our fraternity." New Jersey culture?
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