1. Old picture, and curious where it was taken. 2. If I ever haze (laps, push-ups, etc.) it is always for a purpose. Balanced Man was created to eliminate needless hazing activities coming out of the 1980s like goat fucking, paddling, elephant walking, gold showers, hot seating, and other forms of degradation. When a guy joins my fraternity I treat him with the respect of a young man seeking to earn our letters through hard work and dedication that he made a vow to do so ie. pledge. I do not look at him as a piece of shit not worthy of my oxygen because I did the same process 3 1/2 years ago. When I did it, the older brothers went by the quest book, added their own stuff, and showed me respect as I gave them double. That fellow fraternity men, is the standard of SigEp and balanced man. Many fraternities regardless of letters have an excellent, well meaning pledgeship while others don’t. I’m confident in being in the former group.
VDBL
HAHA, coming from a traditional SIGEP chapter, you balanced men Pussy Geeds can suck my dick. Being hazed even by stupid shit brings brothers together, both the ones getting hazed and the ones hazing. Band of brothers, you should rent it.
Brooksbrothersfrat, comparing WWII airborne training to fraternity hazing is not only idiotic it shows you have no concept of leadership development. You guys have sure alot of division between your Balanced Man and traditional chapters.
You act like the BMS chapters have a choice… if nationals make you a BMS chapter there is nothing you can do… and we haze harder than some of the traditional chapters I have been to. Just because you’re traditional doesn’t mean you haze, and because you are BMS doesn’t mean you don’t haze, the guys in the chapter dictate how much hazing there is. VDBL
Ultimately, I have nothing to prove to anybody on this site. I went through a modified balanced man, earned my letters and have done plenty of shit to continue to earn them every semester. That is the primary goal of everybody who joins a fraternity. Earn your shit and then prove that it was worth it over the next several years, then graduate with pride looking at future networking opportunities, ways to live as a gentleman, and never dishonoring the letters earned.
Every SigEp builds leaders, every chapter goes through the necessary shit you’re talking about. I’m just saying balanced men chapters are fucking gay, they bring our house a bad name. A bunch of pussies who get initiated the moment they signed. I talked to guy from a chapter at Creighton, he told me they’re initiation was siran wrapping a room and spraying them with beer. Thats how it is at chapters all over the country. Therefor Balanced men=GDI’s.
I don’t know what you heard about that Mr Brooks. I and everybody else at my chapter goes through sigma ritual when we join, 8 weeks later through phi ritual and 8 weeks later epsilon, which for traditional chapters is initiation. Getting “initiated” when joining is just recognizing them a somebody with the rights of a brother in that they have a vote in meeting and deserve basic human respect. However, we call them pledges, they know not to talk to much, the have mandatory events, DD shifts, risk management, and they have other limitations. We keep them lower than full brothers while still retaining their humanity and personality.
There is no reason why every SigEp has to be a loser.
However that being said I personally do not consider them to be a fraternity, I call them a social club, or at certain chapters (ie most of the ones in Connecticut Yale and Quinnipiac being the two I know suck dick) a support group. I know people in SigEp qualify what happened to them as hazing, but it is not. You were created because you didn’t want to get hazed. Hazing creates brotherhood, and brotherhood is what makes a fraternity. So maybe you and you’re other friends in SigEp are close, but you will never have the bond that real fraternity members have with their brothers. That doesn’t mean that you and other SigEp’s can’t rage and have a good time, but don’t come on this site and pretend like you know what brotherhood is.
fuck the balanced man program, it turns young men into pussies for the rest of their life. if you want to join SigEp Go Traditional, the only to do it. i pledged a traditional chapter, i got hazed and there is no other way i would want it cause i earned my way into the fraternity. Balanced Men NF. Traditional Men FAF
Coming from a recent sigep alum, the balanced man program only fucks the chapters who don’t have enough money to get the fucking IFC off their back. VT SigEp, TFM.
SigEp does two semesters of hazing one semester until you go through Phi then Another semester of hazing until you go through Epsilon. After a year worth of hazing you are a full time brother and know all of the ritual and secrets. SigEp. FAF
nice pic, geed.
14 years ago at 7:22 pm1. Old picture, and curious where it was taken. 2. If I ever haze (laps, push-ups, etc.) it is always for a purpose. Balanced Man was created to eliminate needless hazing activities coming out of the 1980s like goat fucking, paddling, elephant walking, gold showers, hot seating, and other forms of degradation. When a guy joins my fraternity I treat him with the respect of a young man seeking to earn our letters through hard work and dedication that he made a vow to do so ie. pledge. I do not look at him as a piece of shit not worthy of my oxygen because I did the same process 3 1/2 years ago. When I did it, the older brothers went by the quest book, added their own stuff, and showed me respect as I gave them double. That fellow fraternity men, is the standard of SigEp and balanced man. Many fraternities regardless of letters have an excellent, well meaning pledgeship while others don’t. I’m confident in being in the former group.
14 years ago at 10:07 pmVDBL
HAHA, coming from a traditional SIGEP chapter, you balanced men Pussy Geeds can suck my dick. Being hazed even by stupid shit brings brothers together, both the ones getting hazed and the ones hazing. Band of brothers, you should rent it.
14 years ago at 11:47 pmsweet pic though, makes me proud
14 years ago at 11:48 pmbrooksbrothersfrat- there aren’t many of us traditional SigEp chapters left. nationals is a bunch of geeds, fuck balanced man
14 years ago at 4:22 amI would expect non SigEps to talk shit to me not my own brothers, thanks guys.
14 years ago at 6:19 amBalanced men = geeds
14 years ago at 7:07 amSigEveryones fighting with each other on TFM. NF.
Then again, I’ve seen 2 SigEps at my school fighting each other because they didn’t know they were brothers (and I did). SigEp is pathetic.
14 years ago at 9:13 amBrooksbrothersfrat, comparing WWII airborne training to fraternity hazing is not only idiotic it shows you have no concept of leadership development. You guys have sure alot of division between your Balanced Man and traditional chapters.
14 years ago at 9:48 amI second everything you said Year Around Frat. VDBL.
14 years ago at 10:42 ambalanced man are geeds, traditional is the way to go. If you don’t go traditional then get the fuck out.
14 years ago at 11:28 amYou act like the BMS chapters have a choice… if nationals make you a BMS chapter there is nothing you can do… and we haze harder than some of the traditional chapters I have been to. Just because you’re traditional doesn’t mean you haze, and because you are BMS doesn’t mean you don’t haze, the guys in the chapter dictate how much hazing there is. VDBL
14 years ago at 12:37 pmUltimately, I have nothing to prove to anybody on this site. I went through a modified balanced man, earned my letters and have done plenty of shit to continue to earn them every semester. That is the primary goal of everybody who joins a fraternity. Earn your shit and then prove that it was worth it over the next several years, then graduate with pride looking at future networking opportunities, ways to live as a gentleman, and never dishonoring the letters earned.
14 years ago at 12:19 amGreat post, Year Around Frat. It’s clear that you’re a mature MAN, unlike these other children.
I can’t believe you people that are talking shit. I’m not a Sig Ep, but you’re making the organization nationally look very bad.
14 years ago at 2:48 amEvery SigEp builds leaders, every chapter goes through the necessary shit you’re talking about. I’m just saying balanced men chapters are fucking gay, they bring our house a bad name. A bunch of pussies who get initiated the moment they signed. I talked to guy from a chapter at Creighton, he told me they’re initiation was siran wrapping a room and spraying them with beer. Thats how it is at chapters all over the country. Therefor Balanced men=GDI’s.
14 years ago at 2:17 pmThis pic makes me proud as fuck though.
14 years ago at 2:18 pmI don’t know what you heard about that Mr Brooks. I and everybody else at my chapter goes through sigma ritual when we join, 8 weeks later through phi ritual and 8 weeks later epsilon, which for traditional chapters is initiation. Getting “initiated” when joining is just recognizing them a somebody with the rights of a brother in that they have a vote in meeting and deserve basic human respect. However, we call them pledges, they know not to talk to much, the have mandatory events, DD shifts, risk management, and they have other limitations. We keep them lower than full brothers while still retaining their humanity and personality.
14 years ago at 4:52 pmThere is no reason why every SigEp has to be a loser.
However that being said I personally do not consider them to be a fraternity, I call them a social club, or at certain chapters (ie most of the ones in Connecticut Yale and Quinnipiac being the two I know suck dick) a support group. I know people in SigEp qualify what happened to them as hazing, but it is not. You were created because you didn’t want to get hazed. Hazing creates brotherhood, and brotherhood is what makes a fraternity. So maybe you and you’re other friends in SigEp are close, but you will never have the bond that real fraternity members have with their brothers. That doesn’t mean that you and other SigEp’s can’t rage and have a good time, but don’t come on this site and pretend like you know what brotherhood is.
14 years ago at 5:22 pmfuck the balanced man program, it turns young men into pussies for the rest of their life. if you want to join SigEp Go Traditional, the only to do it. i pledged a traditional chapter, i got hazed and there is no other way i would want it cause i earned my way into the fraternity. Balanced Men NF. Traditional Men FAF
14 years ago at 3:00 pmBalanced men haze for a year, traditionals less then a semester.
13 years ago at 7:33 pmTHIS IS A 10.0 ON THE FRAT RICHTER SCALE
14 years ago at 3:40 amComing from a recent sigep alum, the balanced man program only fucks the chapters who don’t have enough money to get the fucking IFC off their back. VT SigEp, TFM.
14 years ago at 2:05 amUVM SigEp? been there, done that, you guys are all ugly. Vermont does not even know what greek life is brrraah.
14 years ago at 2:40 pmVirginia Tech, not Vermont
14 years ago at 2:23 pmi’d hit it and quit it.
14 years ago at 3:30 pmtoo bad every major fraternity has a picture exactly like this…
14 years ago at 7:10 pmSigEp has sex with fruit for initiation. I think that “balances” them.
14 years ago at 1:28 amsecond
14 years ago at 10:11 pmHanging out with total sluts. NF. Having them pose nude behind a rush banner for your fraternity. Still NF.
14 years ago at 1:43 amSigEp does two semesters of hazing one semester until you go through Phi then Another semester of hazing until you go through Epsilon. After a year worth of hazing you are a full time brother and know all of the ritual and secrets. SigEp. FAF
13 years ago at 7:47 amBalanced Man = NF
13 years ago at 1:50 am