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There are countless benefits that you will reap by becoming a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. We are one of the few resources on campus that provide you with so many opportunities by being part of one organization.
Some areas that you will benefit from include:
- Scholarship
- Friendship
- Diversity
- Networking
- Athletics
- Leadership
- Social
- Involvement
- Service
Some of Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s accolades include:
- First…Fraternity founded in the South
- First…Fraternity to establish a leadership school
- First…Fraternity to establish a national publication
- First…Fraternity to establish a student loan fund
- First…Ranked nationally by the Gallup Poll and the Heller Survey
- First…Ranked fraternity programming for the True Gentleman Initiative by American Fraternity Advisors
- Largest…National membership with over 260,000 brothers
- Largest…Fraternity alumni association
Sigma Alpha Epsilon Returns to Capital Hill
Sigma Alpha Epsilon currently has 11 brothers serving in Congress, and the 2004 Congressional and Gubernatorial elections saw several members of the Fraternity voted into political office. They are:
- Governor Haley Barbour (R) of Mississippi (Mississippi '69)
- Governor John H. Lynch (D) of New Hampshire (New Hampshire '74)
- Senator Max S. Baucus (D) of Montana (Stanford '63)
- Senator Peter B. Domenici (R) of New Mexico (New Mexico '55)
- Senator John Sununu (R) of New Hampshire (Massachusetts Institute of Technology '86)
- Senator Johnny Isakson (R) of of Georgia (Georgia '66)
- Senator Mark Pryor (D) of Arkansas (Arkansas-Fayetteville '85)
- U.S. Representative Allen Boyd (D) of Florida (Florida State '69)
- U.S. Representative David Dreier (R) of California (La Verne '74)
- U.S. Representative Paul E. Gillmor (R) of Ohio (Miami of Ohio '61)
- U.S. Representative David L. Hobson (R) of Ohio (Ohio Wesleyan '58)
- U.S. Representative Ralph S. Regula (R) of Ohio (Mount Union '48)
- U.S. Representative John B. Shadegg (R) of Arizona (Arizona '72)
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