Tau Kappa Epsilon Claims Snow Statue Honors

From Michigan Tech Communications:

The winners have been announced in the Snow Statue Competition at Michigan Technological University’s Winter Carnival. This year’s theme is “Myths and Tales of the Past in Our Frigid Forecast.”

Judging took place early Thursday morning following Wednesday’s all-nighter.

Download a map of all statue locations here.

For the second time in the past three years, Tau Kappa Epsilon took first place in the month-long statue division. The winning entry, located along US-41 in front of the Administration Building, is “Behold a Frozen Thor, Mighty God of Viking Lore.”

Once again this year there were three divisions in the month-long competition— men, women and co-ed. Prizes were awarded to the top three statues in each division. The top three scores among all the statues were placed in the “Overall Month Long” section.

Second place in the overall section went to last year’s winner, Phi Kappa Tau, for “A Sword is Drawn from a Stone and a King Ascends an Icy Throne.” Their entry is located in front of their house at 1209 Quincy St. in Hancock. Third place overall went to Delta Sigma Phi, “, in its Prime Frozen Time.”. All three groups competed in the men’s division of the month-long competition.

In the women’s division, Delta Phi Epsilon took the top spot with “A Creature of Purity and Grace Caught in This Frozen Place.” Second place was awarded to Delta Zeta for “Tangled in the Wind and Snow, to Houghton Rapunzel Must Go.” Alpha Sigma Tau took third with their entry “Beware of the Brrr-muda Triangle”.

In the co-ed division, the winner was the team of Sigma Tau Gamma and Theta Chi Epsilon for “Epic Written in Ice and Snow Showing Heroes and Dragons from Long Ago.” Four Wheelers of Michigan Tech captured second place in the co-ed division with “The Myths at Tech are Commonplace, You Can Always Find a Parking Place.”

In the all-nighter category, St. Albert the Great University Parrish repeated as the overall all-nighter winner, followed by the Lutheran Campus Ministry-ELCA and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship was third. All three groups competed in the co-ed division.

Moose Lodge captured the top spot in the men’s division followed by Sigma Kappa Upsilon Mu, with the Men’s Rugby Club in third.

Phi Delta Chi was the lone entry in the women’s division of the all-nighter competition.

Here are the full results:

Month-Long:

Overall:
1. Tau Kappa Epsilon
2. Phi Kappa Tau
3. Delta Sigma Phi

Men’s:
1. Tau Kappa Epsilon
2. Phi Kappa Tau
3. Delta Sigma Phi

Women’s:
1. Delta Phi Epsilon
2. Delta Zeta
3. Alpha Sigma Tau

Co-ed:
1. Sigma Tau Gamma & Theta Chi Epsilon
2. Four Wheelers of Michigan Tech

All-Nighter:

Overall:
1. St. Albert the Great
2. Lutheran Campus Ministry- ELCA
3. InterVarsity Christian Fellowship

Men’s:
1. Moose Lodge
2. Sigma Kappa Upsilon Mu
3. Men’s Rugby Club

Women’s:
1. Phi Delta Chi

Coed:
1. St. Albert the Great
2. Lutheran Campus Ministry- ELCA