The Founding
This is the school and city that Sigma Nu was founded in.
These are Sigma Nu's three guiding principles.
What are Love, Honor, and Truth?
This was the first Greek Letter Society founded.
What is Phi Beta Kappa at William & Mary, 1776?
This is the year that Gamma Chi was founded.
What is 1896?
This is the fall quarter GPA requirement to initiate into the chapter.
What is 3.0?
These three men founded Sigma Nu.
Who are James Frank Hopkins, Greenfield Quarles, and James McIlvaine Riley
This is the official flower of Sigma Nu.
What is the Classic Five-Petaled, wild, white English Floribunda (White Rose)?
These three fraternities form the Lexington Triad.
What are Alpha Tau Omega, Kappa Alpha Order, and Sigma Nu?
The Gamma Chi chapter holds these two "firsts" in fraternity history.
What are being the oldest fraternity in the Northwest and the first chapter house on campus?
This is the maximum number of excused absences you can have from LEAD.
This was the name Sigma Nu went by before becoming a Greek Letter Organization.
What is the Legion of Honor?
This man, a founding Knight of the Beta Iota chapter at the University of Mount Union, wrote the Creed.
Who is Walter James Sears?
This was the original purpose of fraternities.
What is to be a literary society?
This man was the first initiated into the Gamma Chi chapter and has the pin of ΓΧ1.
Who is John J. Lindsay?
This is the standard for being "on time" to a LEAD session or other house event.
What is 5-10 minutes early?
This founder was the first Eminent Commander of Sigma Nu.
Who is James McIlvaine Riley?
This symbol of another organization provided the basis for Sigma Nu's badge.
What is the White Cross of the French Legion of Honor?
This is the primary difference between a fraternity and other social college organizations.
What is lifetime membership?
This building on campus is named after a member of the Gamma Chi chapter.
What is Meany Hall (or Drumheller Fountain)?
This is the maximum amount of time a candidate can take to initiate.
What is three quarters?
Francis H Smith, the superintendent of VMI during the founding, holds what honorary title in Sigma Nu?
What is "spiritual founder?"
This structure on the grounds of our founding institution is an official symbol of the fraternity, symbolizing protecting the fraternity from outsiders.
What is the Limit Gate?
This was the first lasting "social" fraternity.
What is Kappa Alpha Society at Union College, 1825?
This architect designed our house, built in this year.
Who is Ellsworth Storey in 1916?
This is the date of your initiation.
What is Friday, January 15th?