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One of Sigma Chi's founders, Issac M. Jordon, put together a set of seven characteristics which is the criteria for membership into Sigma Chi. It is better known as "The Jordon Standard", and it goes as follows:

The confidence of the founders of Sigma Chi was based upon a belief that the principals which they professed and the ideals for the fraternity which they sought were but imperfectly realized in the organizations by which they were surrounded.

The standard with which the fraternity started was declared by Issac M. Jordon to be that of admitting no man to membership in Sigma Chi who is not believed to be...

• A man of good character,
• A student of fair ability,
• With ambitious purposes,
• A congenial disposition,
• Possessed of good morals,
• Having a high sense of honor and
• A deep sense of personal responsibility

+ Objectives +

• To cultivate and maintain the high ideals on which Sigma Chi was founded: Friendship, Justice, Learning.
• To foster and preserve high academic standards.
• To train the undergraduate in leadership responsibility and install the idea of good citizenship.
• To take inspiration from The White Cross and follow the principles outlined by our founders to a life of fulfillment.
• To stimulate participation in college programs and to develop close cooperation between Sigma Chi membership and college officials, faculty, and other student organizations.
• To provide a helping hand of brotherhood for the achievement of purposeful living both in the college community and in the years that follow.

+ Obligations +

• That you will regard application to scholarship as your first duty to yourself, your college, and your Fraternity.
• That you will accept the teachings and traditions of the Fraternity with sincerity and respect and that you will do the utmost to interpret the ideals of the Fraternity in your daily life.
• That you will conduct yourself as a gentleman at all times and do nothing that will reflect discredit on your home, college or Fraternity.
• That you will adequately and promptly discharge all financial obligations and responsibilities.
• That you will use every honorable method, in thought, word, and deed, to support and advance the interests of the Sigma Chi Fraternity and of every worthy brother; and that you will be cheerfully obedient to the rules and regulations of the Fraternity and your chapter.
• That you will participate in worthwhile campus activities, provided that such activities do not interfere with scholarship; and that you will strive to take the fullest advantage of your educational opportunity.
• That you will diligently discharge all of the obligations place on you by your family, your Alma Mater, and your nation; and that you will ever regard these duties as having lifelong duration.

The Sigma Chi Fraternity is a Secret Greek Organization that has practiced the same ritual since 1855. Because the fraternity was created as a secret organization it's ritual can only be experienced by an initiated member. All members that have gone through the process are required to take an oath never to reveal the secrets of the process. Because it is secret, this does not mean that there is hazing or any mistreatment involved. There are plenty of secret organizations that are not Fraternities that also do not haze such as a lodge, or your church. The Sigma Chi Fraternity has high ideals and hold them, our ideal do not include any kind of hazing whether it is physical, or emotional. The Sigma Chi Fraternity simply takes young college boys and turns them into men that are prepared for a successful life in a career by teaching them how to cooperate with others that possess different temperaments, talents, and convictions. The Fraternity also builds a leader out of a member by giving him the opportunity to take on an office in the fraternity giving him responsibility.

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