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is
the number 1 rated fraternity by the Gallup
Poll. |
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is
the number 1 rated fraternity by Heller Survey. |
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is
the number 1 rated fraternity by Bantas for 35
years. |
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is
the number 1 rated fraternity by Playboy on
19/20 campuses. |
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has
been rated the number one national fraternity
for more than 53 years (of 60) by the College
Survey Bureau. |
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has
the greatest number of initiates of any
International Greek Letter at 256,000 men. |
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requires all chapters to conduct dry rush, and
the Fraternity has a strong policy against
hazing. |
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has
raised more money for community service in the
past year than any other Greek organization. |
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has
Education and Leadership Consultants who visit
each chapter to assist with management and
programming. |
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was
the first International Fraternity to be
established in the deep south, having been
founded at the University of Alabama,
Tuscaloosa, on March 9, 1856. |
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was
the first fraternity to have a International
headquarters (Evanston, Illinois) and the first
to build its own headquarters building (The
Levere Memorial Temple) The temple is the only
International college fraternity headquarters to
have a chapel. |
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was
the first fraternity to establish a leadership
school. Started in 1935, Leadership School has
over 32,000 graduates. |
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has
212 chapters in 49 states, 9 colonies and 175
alumni associations. |
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has
a quarterly fraternity magazine, The Record,
published continuously since 1880. |
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has
a student loan program to assist undergraduate
brothers with their education. |
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has
an awards program to recognize outstanding
contributions of Sigma Alpha Epsilon alumni,
undergraduates, chapters, and others to the
development of individuals and to the betterment
of life in their community. |
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encourages pledge programs which enhance each
individual's personal growth. |
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was
the first Fraternity to offer a toll-free hazing
hotline available for all members, pledges and
parents. |
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offers a scholarship program |
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 Rush is nothing more than a process of making friends. It brings men
together of different interests, backgrounds, and philosophies for
the initial exchange of ideas which form a base for the growth of
the most solid friendships. As a process of forming friendships,
rush is the oldest and most basic chapter operation in Sigma Alpha
Epsilon. Indeed, it is the force which formed the fraternity. Its
effect is described in the first pages of William "Billy" Levere's
Three Volume History of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. |
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"The Fraternity...grew quietly and silently from a seed planted
in the hearts of its eight founders long before they dreamed what
the fruit of that seed would be. The seed was friendship. From a
college companionship, in which these eight men shared, there was a
gradual evolution which resulted in the birth of the fraternity."
- Billy Levere
And so the ideal of friendship, so important to SAE's beginning,
remains an integral part of the rush process. Even as rush is a
means of establishing friendships, it is also a function of
survival. It must be done to continue the chapter, to improve it, to
maintain its strength and make it better.
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