Fraternity Life at Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College is a commuter school, and as such some of the things that we all come to expect from college life based on our traditional conceptions of college just aren't the same here. However, Brooklyn College does have a very active Greek Life. Fraternities and Sororities make college life more fun, more exciting, and they give you a taste of what most people expect when going to college.
Fraternity life certainly makes college more fun, but fraternity is much more than that, it gives you invaluable life experience in many different ways. It allows you to get irreplaceable business and work experience especially in dealing with people. It gives you the opportunity to grow as a person and among other things participate in charity endeavors and other pursuits that will help your community and the people in the world around you.
Being a member of a Fraternity is something special; it requires a great deal of commitment and only certain people can ever be part of one. You have to be the type of person that is willing to do anything for other people. You must be the kind of person that will always offer a helping hand, when it is necessary. You have to be the kind of person that will always be there for his Brothers in the good times as well as the bad.
Fraternity means Brotherhood; it's something that is sacred to us. It is fun to be in the Greek system at Brooklyn College, there are many parties and mixers that make college life fun, and that make this commuter school more like a residence college, however Fraternity is something much more than that, it is a life long Brotherhood, which is just that, it's a Brotherhood, we consider Brothers of Sigma Alpha Mu just as close as blood relatives.
The type of experience you will receive if you are selected to pledge Sigma Alpha Mu cannot be compared to anything else. The memories that you will make will always be with you. And the Brothers that you will meet may be your closest friends for the rest of you life.
We encourage anyone interested in joining our fraternity to spend some time with the Brothers, we encourage anyone that is interested; to go to a rush party or a mixer and see what joining would mean, and meet the men who are Brothers of our Fraternity.
Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity is not a four year commitment; being a Brother is a life long commitment. It is a commitment to live up to and exceed the ideals that make us who we are. If you do, you will find that you are a better person for it, you will discover that your Fraternity, your Brothers are people that you always want to have by your side, if it's not helping you with something, then it's just Monday night football, but no matter what, you will discover that without your Brothers by your side you will not feel whole.
We offer membership to any man of good moral character, the type of men that can be our Brothers are hard to find, we hope you are one of the unique men that are capable of having a life long bond with true Brothers. We hope that you will consider joining our fraternity, but you must have great character within you to be one of our Brothers.
Sincerely Yours,
Mike Usher, Past Prior