Why Be Different?

College comes with a lot of stereotypes, a lot of facts, and a lot of myths. You already have people telling you what to expect, what you have to sign up for and at what level you have to graduate in order to find the right job, so you can marry the right person, have the right house, so you can raise the perfect kids, send them to the right school so they can get the right job….this is all noise and its tearing our society to pieces.

I implore you to break away from the mold. I beg you to identify your values. I beseech you to find other folks who share those values and in your journey through college and life you will never feel alone, and never feel like you are far from those things that matter most.

Over 86,000 men pledged a fraternity last year.  They came to college maybe believing a lot of the hype about partying, skipping classes, and the ubiquitous alcohol consumption.  What the majority of those men found was a chance to not only join a group of men with shared values, they found a group of scholars who place a premium on academics not for just the purposes of getting a job but for the growth of character.  They found a group of men who share a bond that is grounded in the values of brotherhood and service.  These 86,000 men began a journey that, along with their college experience will take them much farther than 4.5 years of higher education.   Their fraternity journey is one of lifelong duration.  These 86,000 new members belong to one of the largest organizations on the planet; the fraternity movement.

The stories you hear and the reports you watch that depict the alcohol laced debauchery of “Greek life” are the results of men with shared values that have deviated from those of true fraternity. They place a premium not on scholarship, character development, or service, but rather on depravity and laziness. The values of fraternity are lost on those who do not find in those values a call to action and realization that the world expects so much more of the fraternity man.

I beseech you to break the mold, I beg you to part ways with the status quo, I implore you to expect more from your college experience.