THE TRUE GENTLEMEN
The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe.
John Walter Wayland
Virginia, 1899
Rushing SAE
"The Fraternity...grew quietly and silently from a seed planted in the hearts of its eight founders long before they dreamed what the fruit of that seed would be. The seed was friendship. From a college companionship, in which these eight men shared, there was a gradual evolution which resulted in the birth of the fraternity."
- Billy Levere
Why would you want to be a brother of Sigma Alpha Epsilon?
-SAE was the first national fraternity to be established in the deep south, having been founded at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, on 9 March 1856.
-SAE was the first fraternity to have a national headquarters (Evanston, Illinois) and the first to build its own headquarters building (The Levere Memorial Temple)
-The temple is the only national college fraternity headquarters to have a chapel.
-SAE was the first fraternity to establish a leadership school. Started in 1935, Leadership School has over 32,000 graduates.
-SAE is the number one national fraternity, as rated by the Gallup poll.
-SAE has the greatest number of initiates of any national fraternity at over 254,000 men.
-SAE has 212 chapters in 47 states, plus 9 colonies and 175 alumni associations.
-SAE's fraternity magazine, the Record of Sigma Alpha Epsilon has been published continuously since 1880.
-SAE has education and leadership consultants who each chapter to assist with management and programming, especially scholarship and career development.
-SAE has a student loan program to assist undergraduate brothers with their education.
-SAE has an awards program to recognize outstanding contributions of SAE alumni, undergraduates, chapters, and others to the development of individuals and to the betterment of life in their community.
-SAE requires all chapters to conduct dry rush, and the fraternity has a strong policy against hazing.
-SAE encourages pledge programs which enhance each individual's personal growth.