When posts from Sigma’s private Facebook group were posted online this May, it opened the curtains on an ugly culture that reigned in the Salem, Oregon-based brotherhood. Seventeen minors were cited this June after police responded to shots fired from an AK-47 at their Jonesboro, Arkansas, residence, and charged with possession of alcohol, possession of a controlled substance, and possession of drug paraphernalia. Alpha Gamma Rho, Arkansas State University The bounty included 57 tabs of LSD, 69 grams of mushrooms, 48 grams of opium, 22 grams of marijuana. State Police seized $10,000 worth of psychedelics from the Kappa house after two 19-year-old brothers scored 107 grams of ecstasy from undercover officers. (Disclosure: the author belonged to a fraternity).Ĭonfessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy: Inside Dartmouth’s Hazing Abuses To the millions of students returning to campuses this fall, here are the 10 worst houses in America, places where sexism, racist acts and automatic weapons are alarmingly commonplace. Still, membership is surging – participation is up 25 percent from 2007 according to the North-American Interfraternity Conference. Ten were killed in 2012, the most fatalities in at least a decade. Since 2005, 59 students have died in incidents involving frats, about half of which were alcohol-related (six other students were paralyzed). The aim of the awards was to recognize publishing achievement at Jesuit colleges and universities the categories of the humanities, the sciences and professional studies.America’s fraternities have a problem. In 1979, Alpha Sigma Nu created the Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit Book Awards. In addition, Alpha Sigma Nu granted charters in 1993 to both Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, California and Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, however the Jesuit School of Theology affiliated with Santa Clara University in 2009 and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology re-affiliated with Boston College in 2008. These chapters were given charters as follows: University Īlpha Sigma Nu joined the Association of College Honor Societies in 1975.Īs of 2016, the society has 32 chapters: 28 Jesuit Colleges and Universities in the United States, 2 Colleges in Canada, 1 in South Korea, and 1 in Spain. On March 30, 1973, the two, Alpha Sigma Nu and Gamma Pi Epsilon merged. In 1930, Alpha Sigma Tau became Alpha Sigma Nu. It had the same purpose as Alpha Sigma Nu, but the two societies remained independent of each other. In 1925, a women-only society, Gamma Pi Epsilon, was founded. In 1921, the second chapter of the society was founded in Creighton University in Nebraska, United States. Furthermore, Catholic higher education institutes found their students being overlooked in other honor societies at the time. He sought to emulate the various honor societies present in the country at the time. He was the dean of journalism at Marquette University, in Wisconsin, United States. In 1915, the original society, Alpha Sigma Tau was founded by John Danihy, S.J. Alpha Sigma Nu currently has over 90,000 lifetime members and admits around 1,000 new members each year. It is present in 32 Jesuit institutions of higher education, 28 of which are in the United States. The society is open to both men and women of every academic discipline in the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and other Jesuit higher education institutions worldwide. Founded in 1915 at Marquette University as Alpha Sigma Tau, it adopted the current name in 1930. ΑΣΝ is a member of the Association of College Honor Societies. The Key of the Society bears the three Greek letters ( ΑΣΝ) together with the Eye of Wisdom.Īlpha Sigma Nu ( ΑΣΝ) is the honor society of Jesuit colleges and universities. "Alpha Sigma Nu, the honor society of Jesuit institutions of higher education, recognizes those students who distinguish themselves in scholarship, loyalty and service."
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