Why should you join Phi Mu Delta?
What Can a Fraternity Offer Me?
Why Join a fraternity? What does a fraternity offer me? These are probably the questions you are asking yourself
now that you are being rushed by a number of Greek letter fraternities.
Actually the answer to both of these questions remain much the same as they were in 1776, the year the first
secret Greek letter society was founded.
The college fraternity of today satisfies a definite need as it has in years past. What is that need?
It is natural for us to seek the friendship of others. We find ourselves on a college campus, participating in a common
experience with others of our own age, and it is only natural that we seek the companionship of those we find to be
particularly friendly. The fraternity chapter, consisting of men of common interests and ideals supplies the environment.
Fraternities can mean many things to many people. They can mean academic benefits, varied social life, personal involvement
with others, chances to develop personal and group leadership capabilities, the opportunity to make friends for a lifetime,
or a balanced combination of all these elements.
Fraternity life offers the types of social living you've looked forward to in college... Good living conditions, the
companionship of close friends, the feeling of "belonging", a home away from home, and many other benefits.
But a fraternity is much more than simply a place to live. A fraternity is a way of life. Many of the benefits is can provide
its members are in the form of supplementing the offerings in college.
Sharing common experiences in the pursuance of a college education can be fun - but our first job at college is academics.
While other factors, both of social and academic nature, are of value in your development into a well rounded individual, it
is the knowledge gained through diligent study which can reap the greatest rewards.
In most national fraternities, each freshman has at least one mentor, commonly known as a "big brother, " whose responsibility
is to help provide the confidence and influence in making the college experience successful. In many cases, your "big brother"
will become one of your closest friends and someone you can always count on being there when you need them.
Fraternity brotherhood is an opportunity. It's an opportunity to meet a lot of different people who have varied views, maybe
like your own, and maybe completely different. Brotherhood is being able to get along with various people and appreciating each
person for his own opinion.
-Taken from the Phi Mu Delta National Rush Pamphlet
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