[Kevin]

Sigma Nu was originally founded to combat the hazing practices perpetrated by another group on the VMI campus.

At my chapter, I'd like to think we're similar in a lot of ways. Being a founding member, I'd never even considered going Greek until a friend of mine at work approached me about this interest group that was forming. I, like most believed basically everything I'd heard about fraternities at my campus (one of them had just nearly been kicked off of campus because one of their members (drunk) ran over a pledge who had passed out in the middle of a road (drunk) at one of their retreats. Maybe my suspicions about Greek Life weren't ill-founded.

3 years later, we received our charter. I'm still very proud whenever I attend meetings to hear the actives using our fraternity's principles as litmus tests for what we should or should not do or say.

Why do we exist? My fraternity gives a basis of principle and honor to our men in a world of moral relativism. It's hard to put it exactly into words but if ya'll had been able to attend our active chapter elections last night you would have heard some firey speaches about love honor and truth and what those virtues that we stand for mean to our members. I guess if you had to put it to words, that's why we exist.