Alum Initiates

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Here's Alpha Sigma Phi's rules on membership, from their constitution and bylaws:

ARTICLE II. MEMBERSHIP

Section 1. Membership: Membership shall be acquired only by male persons,

A. Who are not members of (1) any viable, general Greek-letter fraternity of college grade and national in scope, or (2) any other group antagonistic to fraternities;

B. Who are likely to be intellectually, morally and socially of benefit to the Fraternity;

C. Who shall have been duly elected by secret vote of a Chapter in good standing or approved by the Grand Council;

D. Who have been duly initiated in accordance with the Rituals of the Fraternity or acquired by merger of another fraternity, and

E. Who fully understand that the mission of Alpha Sigma Phi is to create and perpetuate brotherhood.

Section 2. Classes of Membership: There shall be three classes of members: Undergraduate, Faculty, and Alumni.

A. Undergraduate members are all members regularly enrolled in attendance at an institution of learning at which they were initiated or at which the member and chapter have agreed to affiliate the member, and at which the Chapter of Alpha Sigma Phi is in good standing. Except as directed by the Grand Council, undergraduate students qualifying for membership under this section are not eligible to be Alumni members.

B. Faculty members are members on the faculty or staff of the institution of learning at which a Chapter exists. Faculty members may be formally initiated upon election by a Chapter in good standing or at the invitation of the Grand Council. The Grand Council has authority to waive fees for initiation of faculty members. Faculty members have the same rights, privileges and obligations as alumni members.

C. Alumni member are all members who do not qualify as undergraduate or faculty members.

D. There shall be no local, social, honorary, or associate memberships, nor any membership status other than as listed in Sections 2A, 2B, and 2C, above, all of whom are duly authorized and recorded by the Fraternity Headquarters.

Section 3. Members-at-Large:

A. After investigation and approval by the Grand Council a member of a colony or a former colony or interest group of Alpha Sigma Phi, or of a local fraternity which had petitioned Alpha Sigma Phi for colony status, or a former pledge of a chapter of Alpha Sigma Phi who left the college and chapter in good standing, may be initiated by direction of the Grand Council as a member-at large of Alpha Sigma Phi.

B. Alumni of Phi Pi Phi Fraternity and Alpha Gamma Upsilon Fraternity whose chapters were not chartered in Alpha Sigma Phi and who are initiated by Alpha Sigma Phi are members-at-large of Alpha Sigma Phi.

C. Members-at-large are alumni members of Alpha Sigma Phi unless enrolled in undergraduate work at an institution of learning where Alpha Sigma Phi has an active or inactive chapter may be enrolled on the roster of the chapter with consent of the chapter, if active, the alumni board of an inactive chapter, if active, or by direction of the Grand Council if there is no active chapter or active alumni group.

Our one famous M-A-L was Jonathan Burns, the son of the late Grand Secretary Emeritus Ralph Burns. Brother Jon was a grad of WooP (The United States Military Academy at West Point, which does not have fraternities or sororities except their own 4th Class system) and was initiated an M-A-L in 1980, He is now a member of the Grand Council. Recently, we initiated a member who was a former pledge of one chapter and waited something like 25 years to finally pursue initiation.