Advantages
These are the real advantages to joining a fraternity:
85% of the Fortune 500 executives, 80% of U.S. Presidents since 1900, and 100% of the Apollo 11 astronauts were all members of a fraternity
The academic portion of your university career is one significant determinant in your future success. The primary purposes of the fraternity system is to encourage and develop high scholastic achievement among its members. Just over 50% of students in a university or college end up graduating. However, if you belong to a fraternity, your chances of graduating increase to over 70%! Fraternity members help each other succeed!
Usually, the only way a person gets involved in a philanthropic event, is to do it with a group of people. On your resume, you need volunteer experience. The fraternity is an excellent way for you to donate your time for a good cause. Nationally, Delta Sigma Phi works with the March of Dimes.
Each fraternity participates in the numerous competitive sports in the Campus Recreation Intramural Leagues and in inter fraternal sports like the IFC Hockey Tournament. It’s difficult to get a group of people on your own to play team intramural sports, outdoor paintball, or to get a softball game together on a Sunday afternoon. Fraternities offer all of this along with the pride of sportsmanship, team spirit, and competition!
In the fraternity, you will be “in charge” of an event or a duty. Everyone in the fraternity is a leader, whether you’re an officer, an executive, on a committee, or just a participant. You will learn by doing. You’ll learn how to manage a budget, run effective meetings, speak in public, motivate others… skills that will help you in college and throughout your life. These days it takes more than just a degree to get a good job – it takes leadership experience.
Brotherhood is the foundation of the fraternity experience. Every man contributes to this aspect. Brotherhood combines the concept of individualism within the framework of mutual cooperation. As a fraternity brother you will form friendships unlike any found in other organizations. Brotherhood is not conformity. No fraternity is made up of members who are exactly alike. By choosing to become a member of a fraternity, you will meet brothers who grow to become your closest friends, those who will cheer you on when you’re successful and who will support you when the going gets tough.
Let’s say you’ve graduated or are just looking for a summer job. Now what? In today’s economy and job market, it’s going to take more than looking at want-ads and job postings. You need to network with people. The fraternity is one of the best ways to do just that. Using the resources of fraternity members like alumni, you may find that job you’re looking for – that head start in life, all because you joined a fraternity. What an investment!
Now assume you’re planning a trip to another city in North America. You need a place to stay, but you don’t want to spend too much dough. Fraternity membership allows you to travel to other fellow chapter houses to meet brothers and have a place to stay for free! Sometimes, one chapter will get a bunch of guys together and plan a road trip and stay at several chapters along the way. And when you arrive, although you may have never met these brothers before, you have a fraternal bond, and you’re more than just a guest in their home, you’re instant friends. All this mushy brotherhood stuff may be hard to believe at first, but it’s genuine.