By now, we hope we have convinced you that fraternity membership is a
beneficial thing, and that Lambda Chi Alpha is one of the best fraternities
around. Of course it is our belief that it is THE best!
If you are
interested in joining Lambda Chi Alpha at AUM, this is the initial actions you
should take and a summary of what you should expect from there.
1. Fill out a
recruitment information form and send it to us. We will contact
you and make you aware of our recruitment and other events so that we may have
the opportunity to meet you.
2. After you
have attended a sufficient number of our events to allow our members the
opportunity to know more about you, you will be brought up for a vote of the
membership to determine whether or not you'll be extended a "bid." A
bid is an offer to join our fraternity. In the simplest form, the question for
our members is whether you can benefit from membership in our fraternity and
whether our fraternity will likely benefit from you becoming a member.
3. Assuming that you
are offered a bid, once our recruitment period has ended, you will go through
an association ceremony and become an associate of our chapter. Associates are
provided pins to wear in order to display to others that they are an associate
member of Lambda Chi Alpha.
4. After you become
an associate member, our chapter will soon conduct a Big Brother - Little
Brother ceremony. The purpose of this ceremony is to match each associate with
an initiated member. That initiated member will be the associate's "Big
Brother" and assist in mentoring and educating the associate member about
our fraternity and other aspects of Greek life. We have an officer within our
chapter whose sole function is educating our membership through a Fraternity
Education ("FRED") program. That officer will oversee the process
with the assistance of a Big Brother-Little Brother coordinator to see to it
that every associate member receives a proper fraternal education.
5.
Eight-to-ten weeks after you are associated, you will be brought up before the
membership a second time in order for it to vote on whether you will be
initiated. The membership will consider each associate's participation with
and representation of the chapter, overall morale and excitement about Lambda
Chi Alpha, and other things, including academic and financial responsibility.
Upon receiving the necessary vote, the associate will be allowed to
participate in our fraternity's initiation ritual and thereafter become an
initiated brother once he has successfully completed the initiation ritual.
Lambda Chi Alpha's initiation ritual is universally used among all chapters
and has been in existence, virtually unchanged, since 1913.
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