For a change there is a little good news for the “Greeks” on one California campus, who have been under attack at various institutions across the country for a wide variety of reasons.

The brick fraternity house with an ivy-covered front lawn and green shutters still bears its national seal above the main entrance, although it has been unoccupied by brothers for more than a decade.

For the first time since 2003, the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity, which sits on the corner of Strathmore and Landfair, is admitting new members.

The Phi Kappa Sigma house, originally established at UCLA in 1927, was disbanded by UCLA in 2003. Today, it has reopened and began rushing new members this spring, said Mark Logsdon, a Phi Kappa Sigma International Fraternity expansion consultant.

Phi Kappa Sigma became a substance-free house in 2000. Alcohol violations caused the UCLA fraternity to be shut down. There are 45 other chapters of the fraternity around the country, Logsdon said.

Phi Kappa Sigma wants to be associated with a school of high academic integrity such as UCLA, Logsdon said. He added that bringing a substance-free house back to UCLA will create well-rounded individuals and give UCLA something it does not already have.

Though the house has been almost completely devoid of the fraternity’s members for nearly a decade, many alumni still remember their time as brothers vividly.

Al Scates, a Phi Kappa Sigma brother and former UCLA volleyball coach of 50 years, graduated from UCLA in 1961. He said his favorite moments as member of the fraternity were the weekly dinners and the jukebox in the basement that played 35 versions of the The Olympics’ song “Hully Gully.”