Meet Reese Cruz (Northern Colorado, Mu Tau, '22)! He shared his PIKE story with us in honor of #PrideMonth:
"Growing up, I never felt like I could truly express who I was as a person. When going through middle school and high school, it was hard to make friends with guys, I was missing the idea of brotherhood. When I enrolled in college, I was able to express more of my natural personality and learned a valuable lesson that 'judgment towards you is only what they see on the outside, not what you believe towards yourself inside.' I wanted to meet more people but didn’t really know where to begin. I tried student organizations within my major, and nothing gave me the companionship I needed. That wasn’t until I found PIKE, which gave me the outlet to be myself and showed me the ways of brotherhood, making me feel like a man.
When I decided to rush, and walked into PIKE for the first time, I knew it was a group of brothers that would accept me for who I am, fill in the missing brot...