Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity
 

The Virginia Commonwealth University chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon was colonized the spring of March 24th, 2005 and chartered February 24th, 2007. Since 1856, Sigma Alpha Epsilon has initiated more men since its founding than any other fraternity with more than 300,000 initiated members. At present, ΣΑΕ has more than 11,000 undergraduates and more than 300 chapters in 49 states. The mission of Sigma Alpha Epsilon is to promote the highest standards of friendship, scholarship, and service for our members based upon the ideals set forth by our Founders and as specifically enunciated in our creed, "The True Gentleman."

The True Gentleman

The True Gentleman is the man  whose conduct proceeds from goodwill
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 humble 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)