We here at Washington Alpha are traditional and will remain that way as long as at least one of my boys has some say in our fraternity. We almost got shut down last year and we had nationals sending everybody they could out to us to give us a BMP sales pitch and threaten to take our charter away unless we droppped traditions that are 90 years old in favor of a program that might make the university like us a little bit more. We have always had one of the biggest houses on campus, always ranked top 5 in grades, and have been turning out balanced men since 1912. Hell Oscar Draper, Grand President-1928, who wrote the Creed of Sigma Phi Epsilon (page vii, LROB) put in a year of pledgeship and experienced the same week of initiation that everyone since has done in my house. EVERYTHING we do has meaning and is revealed during "I" week or pledgeship. True, the BMP program has a lot going for it, and has helped many chapters. Ive visited other houses, both BMP and traditional, and formed my own opinions from what Ive seen. So let me invite you to visit my house, and I will show one of the biggest, strongest, and most respected brotherhoods you've seen. But be forwarned, walk through the red door without being fully initiated and shit will hit the fan.