RSVP for Homecoming, Work Weekend, and Homecoming '95 Revisited
RSVP today for the Phi Kappa Theta Homecoming Dinner on Saturday, October 10. Dinner will be at 11016 Magnolia.
We will start the evening with a happy hour at 4:30pm. Enjoy a beverage, catch up with old friends, see how the house looks today, and learn about what the Alumni Board has been up to. Beer, wine, and non-alcoholic beverages will be available. At 6:00pm, help yourself to a hearty baked potato and chili bar! A variety of toppings will be available, including vegan options.
Please RSVP on our website by Monday, October 5 to make sure you don’t miss out. Tickets for alumni and their guests are $35 each. Tickets for Undergraduates and their guests are $20 each. If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to Ken Nagano at nagano@ohioalphabeta.org. We look forward to seeing you at Homecoming!
Sign Up Today for the Fall Work Weekend
Do you feel like working up an appetite before the Homecoming Dinner, or possibly working off the dinner the next day? On Saturday, October 10 and Sunday, October 11, we will be holding our Fall 2026 Work Weekend. We will be doing an assortment of small projects around the house from about 9am to 4pm on both days. The number of volunteers has a direct influence on the projects we choose to do, so your advance registration via the website is much appreciated.
Even if you are unable to assist with projects, we encourage you to drop by and say hello during the day, especially if you can’t make it to the Phi Kappa Theta Homecoming Dinner on Saturday night.
And if you can’t make it all, consider supporting us in spirit. Most of the funding for our projects comes from donations by brothers such as yourself.
The Absolutely True Story of Glick 4 Queen as told by Nathan Kossover ‘01
It’s Fall 1996. I am a freshman. I walk along the narrow path between AW Smith and Bingham on the Case Quad and see the chalking “Glick 4 Queen”. It is small and under a slight outcropping that protects it from the worst of the elements.
As an associate member of Phi Kappa Theta that fall, I learned that the chalking is a remnant of brother Adam Glick ‘97’s campaign for Homecoming Queen in Fall 1995. Yes, Homecoming Queen. He officially came in second, but it was widely assumed that he won and that the Homecoming Committee put its large and humorless hand on the scales to swing the outcome. After his appearance in the Homecoming court, the rules were changed to bar male students from running for Homecoming Queen in the future.
Approximate Location of the Glick 4 Queen Chalking
It’s May 2001. After graduation, I walk past the chalking one last time. It is extremely faint, but “Glick 4 Queen” is still discernable. It had a good run but is clearly going to lose its battle with the elements soon.
It’s Homecoming 2016. Many brothers are in town for the 75 for 75 celebration. Neal Pence ‘01 and Joe Reed ‘03 are staying at my house, and the three of us decide to walk around campus before the evening’s festivities. We wander past Bingham and AW Smith, and are completely blown away to see that the Glick 4 Queen chalking has clearly been recently redone. It’s in big bold letters, far larger than the tiny chalking we recall from college.
That night at the 75 for 75 celebration, we learn that at some point in the intervening 15 years the undergraduate chapter has started having the associate members redo the chalking every semester. The undergraduates know that Glick ran for Homecoming Queen back in 1995, but all else has been forgotten, including who actually started the tradition of redoing the chalking. Glick is very amused by this, as well as a reddit thread from 2015 he stumbled upon bemoaning the disappearance of at least one iteration of the chalking.
The chalking as of November 2025. This is dramatically larger than the original chalking, which at least in the memory of Nathan Kossover ‘01 was about the size of the ‘G’ in this picture.
Homecoming 2026 approaches. 31 years after Glick 4 Queen was first chalked on campus, it’s time to hear the full story, as told by Adam Glick ‘97 himself. Let’s turn it over to Glick.
The Absolutely True Story of Glick 4 Queen As Told by Adam Glick ‘97
First, a little historical context. At the time, there were five sororities on campus - Alpha Phi, Phi Mu, Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Xi Delta and Sigma Psi. While there were non-Greek candidates for Homecoming Queen, pragmatically speaking the winner was whichever sorority could muster the most members and friends to get to the polls. This was a system that was ripe for disruption by a candidate motivated to stir the pot.
I was reading the rules when I realized that there was absolutely nothing in the rules that prevented me from running for Homecoming Queen. My original idea was to run for both Homecoming King and Homecoming Queen at the same time to see if I could win both elections simultaneously. The Homecoming Committee was not happy about this and let me know that I could only run for one position. I opted to run for Homecoming Queen because (a) nobody actually cared who was Homecoming King (b) it let me push people’s buttons around their perceptions of gender and what was appropriate (c) it was funnier. The chapter had been willing to sponsor me if I ran for Homecoming King, but definitely were not interested in sponsoring me for Homecoming Queen, so some friends got the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Alliance to sponsor my campaign instead.
I had some really great help from a couple of good friends who helped me make a bunch of pop-culture related fliers and some catchy slogans like “Vote for Glick, he’s got balls!” We printed a ton of fliers and pretty much wallpapered campus, and put some blurbs in the student newspaper, The Observer. We also chalked all over campus, which was the origin of the original Glick 4 Queen chalking. For extra fun, I wore a sandwich board around campus on the day of the election. This led to the Homecoming Committee trying to kick me out of the cafeteria for “electioneering at the polling place.” Since I had just come in to vote, they had to allow me in and then I went outside and encouraged people to vote.
We were never provided a final vote tally, which led to some speculation about vote tampering, but in the end I came in second place, which made me the “Homecoming Princess.” My assumption is that with one candidate from each of the five sororities, most of their candidates could not get enough votes to beat my outsider campaign. The vote also came at a time when there was a cultural shift happening. Gay rights were becoming a lot more accepted but there was still a lot of contention and concern around the topic. Younger students tended to think that voting for me was fun and subversive while older students were more skeptical.
That year the Observer, opted not to publish a picture of the Homecoming Court, which for my sake is probably just as well because this was before cell phone cameras or social media so everyone is spared the image of me in a dress in the parade along with my goatee and the very embarrassed Homecoming Prince who was paired with me. Said prince was my friend Dan from another fraternity who took being matched with me in the parade pretty well considering that he had taken the election a lot more seriously than I had. As part of my campaign I had promised to wear a dress to the Homecoming Dance if I won, but since I came in second I went with a suit and tie and enjoyed the evening.
A few interesting things came out of the campaign. First, I had multiple people come up to me on campus and thank me for running. I have to admit that while I enjoyed messing with the system and people’s preconceptions, I wasn’t trying to make a big statement as much as I was trying to poke fun at people who took these things too seriously or who felt that people couldn’t just be who they wanted to be.
One of those people who took things too seriously was one of the deans, who pulled me into a meeting. It was clear that he wasn’t a fan of what I was doing, and he tried to get me to admit that this was my way of coming out of the closet. For some reason he was one of many people who thought that I must be gay because I was running for Homecoming Queen, although at this time I was dating a woman from Phi Mu. The dean seemed to really care about it and wouldn’t let it go, but thankfully there was nothing but that one meeting and I didn’t receive any kind of official sanction.
Some of my brothers were also not big fans of the campaign, to put it mildly. Although the fraternity hadn’t officially sponsored my campaign, they thought it reflected poorly on the chapter as a whole. It was the topic of some heated discussion in a chapter meeting, to the point where some brothers actually wanted to kick me out of the fraternity. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed.
It is very entertaining to me that of all the things I did on campus as an undergraduate, somehow this campaign is the one thing I’m remembered for. It’s even more entertaining (and slightly disturbing) that a random chalking from my Homecoming Queen campaign has led to an enduring fraternity tradition, but it makes me smile every time I think about it. I’m grateful for those that helped me with the campaign as well as the brothers that keep this fun little piece of Phi Kap history alive today.
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Adam Glick ‘97
Adam Glick ‘97 as featured on the 1995-1996 composite and today.
