What’s better than playing a bunch of your favorite board games, meeting new people and getting to learn more about a new organization that is based on your love for English? Well anyone interested in this has the opportunity to be a part of it at 5:30 p.m tonight, Sept. 22, on the first floor of Bixler. Sigma Tau Delta, an international English fraternity, is sponsoring the Humanities’ Hobnob Game Night.

To anyone wondering what a hobnob is, it is a verb defined as, “to mix socially with people of higher social status.” The ways that Sigma Tau Delta mixes socially will be through a night of games, snacks, refreshments and good friends. Students with the following disciplines are invited to attend: English, French, political science and history, philosophy, religion and Spanish. Most of the board games will be centered on the disciplines and will include things like Apples to Apples and Boggle (English), Scrabble (English and, if you are creative, Spanish and French), Risk and Battleship (history), Trivial Pursuit (philosophy intellectuals), etc.

Lindsay Cameron, the vice president of Sigma Tau Delta, said there will be information about applying for Sigma Tau Delta at the event.

Members do not need to be English majors or minors but must have taken at least two English classes outside of English 101 and 102, and maintained a GPA in those classes of at least a 3.0. The group itself tries to do at least one major philanthropy/community service project a year, as well as a few little get-togethers with members and others from around the university. Matt Goldsmith, the president of Sigma Tau Delta, says the group wanted to try something new this year with the organization.

“This year we’re attempting to do an Early Childhood Literacy Seminar, where we explain to new and expectant mothers the benefits of spending time with and reading to newborns for their later growth,” he said.

For more information on Sigma Tau Delta, contact Goldsmith, Cameron or advisor Hilary Donatini, or attend the hobnob at 5:30 p.m. tonight on the first floor of Bixler.