A MESSAGE FROM THE GRAND CONSUL - Week 4

Post date: Sep 01, 2019 4:35:40 PM

Well, the membership on the Sigma Chi International Facebook page is up over 500 in the last 3 weeks. Please keep up your efforts and invite brothers who are your friend and are in good standing. We should go over 16,000 members in the next week+. Let's keep that going and move on to 17,000.

I will now post on this page instead of the International page as it is shareable and it will auto-post to the International page and the History page. As an administrator, you can link this page to yours. Keep up the good work to spread the word. I cannot move the posts I have made in the last few weeks as it would re-post to everyone. So, this begins a weekly session with my brothers....

With many of our chapters either finishing the recruitment cycle and starting P4B or about to start after this weekend, I thought it appropriate to discuss "What should our new pledges expect from us?"

First they should expect what we represented to them. A lifetime journey founded in the principles of true friendship , commitment to judicial fairness, and an environment conducive to learning. Expecting anything less is like sleeping with one eye open. You want to believe what the salesman told you, it is just that you instinctively partially distrust the process. Let's commit ourselves to delivering on what we promised. Then our "salesmen" can tell a young recruit, this is true because I just went through it myself. If we are truly recruiting using values based recruiting methods- it works both ways. We have to show we have and live our values- values we are asking them to make a lifetime commitment to.

They need to know that they are truly safe while in our P4B program. Hazing is an insidious problem in our fraternal world and you will hear more on my plans on this shortly. If you were at KTLW 2019 this month, you heard the PUSH parents talk about the unspeakable pain of losing a child- and losing them to hazing. Hazing is just plain incompatible with the concept of true brotherhood and our P4B program. They must not even have to think that is a possibility- there are just too many other things to learn and absorb. Also, their parents need to support our commitment to the personal and professional development of their son. They should not give it a second thought that hazing and violence is a possibility for their child. It must be a shared trust for the partnership to work.

We must create an environment through the learning continuum that they understand that they are on a lifetime trajectory for learning and personal development in both their undergrad and alumni lives. Learning in Sigma Chi should not end with graduation. One door closes- another one opens and we will have learning opportunities for all brothers in the coming years. We must create a value partnership with our host universities- the university will teach calculus- we will teach life skills.

We must truly create a living environment that embodies all that true brotherhood can mean. Knowing you are never alone, that you can unburden your soul to your brothers at any time, and that you will always find it here. You will find something in Sigma Chi that you cannot find anywhere else.

Well, I am off to Salt Lake on Wednesday for the groundbreaking for the new Women's Cancer Research Center on Thursday and then the annual Huntsman Gala. Will work a trip to the University of Utah to visit with the actives and the new pledges and then flying to New Orleans on Friday to award a Significant Sig medal and certificate to brother Sean Payton- coach of the New Orleans Saints. More on that later.

See the Facebook post here: https://www.facebook.com/104175454293680/posts/109311323780093/

NEXT WEEK: WHY WE NEED TO EXEMPLIFY THE SPIRIT OF PHILANTHROPY.

IN HOC,

-Steve Schuyler, ARIZONA 1979 - 71^th Grand Consul

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