Lambda Phi Nu Competitors

The Fraternity's mission is advancing the highest standards of friendship, scholarship, leadership and service for our members throughout life.

Pi Kappa Phi is a collegiate men's organization focused on providing a solid experience in key areas of male development including social interaction, scholarship, leadership and service learning. Pi Kappa Phi was founded on the premise of creating leadership opportunities for our members. Our founders exemplified leadership in the classroom, on the athletic field, in campus politics and within the community of Charleston. Leadership is the very root of our organization, and it is the concept of leadership that shall guide us to our future. Our Mission To create an uncommon and lifelong brotherhood that develops leaders and encourages service to others for the betterment of our communities. Our Vision A future where every Pi Kappa Phi embraces his role as a leader, puts service before self and improves the world around him.

Sigma Nu (ΣΝ) is a college fraternity that was founded by James Frank Hopkins, Greenfield Quarles and James McIlvaine Riley at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia, shortly after Hopkins witnessed what he considered a hazing ritual by upperclassmen at the Virginia Military Institute. Sigma Nu's existence remained secret until the founders publicly announced their new society on January 1, 1869, which is the fraternity's recognized birth date. The fraternity has 279 (active and inactive) chapters and colonies throughout the United States and Canada and has initiated over 227,000 members. The fraternity sponsors various programming including ethical leadership development through its LEAD program and philanthropic events through its Helping Hand Initiative. It recruits new members using its Values Based Recruitment method. Sigma Nu prides itself on its anti-hazing principles, upon which the organization was founded and continues to uphold through its anti-hazing initiative. The fraternity's values are summarized as an adherence to the principles of love, honor, and truth. Because of its military heritage, Sigma Nu retains many military trappings in its chapter ranks and traditions, and places importance on the concept of personal honor.