Last but not least, we have a strong academic reputation with a chapter and new member class GPA consistently above the all men’s and all fraternity averages. Other social highlights include the White Rose formal in New Orleans, White Star beach weekend at Hilton Head, Woodstock Weekend, Octoberfest in Helen, GA, Alamo Scout-Founder’s Day, date nights, sorority socials, band parties and legendary tailgates at the house closest to Sanford Stadium. Sigma Nu hosts Jam For Cam annually and with over 10,000 attendees making it one of the largest philanthropy events amongst Greek Life organizations, raising over $120,000 for skin cancer charities honoring our late brother Cameron Fearon. Continuing this tradition, the active brothers are engaged as ethical leaders in every major organization on campus. Edge, and Emmy Award winner Kyle Chandler (pledge) along with hundreds of successful business leaders, lawyers, doctors, and community volunteers. The Chapter has initiated over 2800 men including two former Georgia Governors, four US Congressmen, two Cabinet officials, and business leaders like AFLAC CEO Dan Amos, CNN CEO Tom Johnson, ESPN’s Mark Schlabaugh, SEC Network host John T. We are the only fraternity at UGA to ever receive the award and only the second in Sigma Nu (Congrats Ole Miss 2019). In 2012, Mu Chapter Number IV was recognized with the Chapter of Distinction Award by the National Interfraternity Conference for excellence among the 5500 chapters in all college fraternities nationwide. The Chapter has won Sigma Nu’s highest honor, the Rock Award at the last five biannual conferences, signifying a decade of sustained excellence. Known as Mu Chapter Number IV, it’s the oldest Sigma Nu chapter in continuous existence. Shortly after the anti-fraternity law was repealed the Chapter was reestablished as Mu Chapter, based on the new system of using Greek letters instead of Roman numerals to identify chapters. He initiated four men before the anti-fraternity laws forced the Chapter to disband. Upon graduating first in his class in 1873, Bonham accepted a position at UGA as a physics professor in the fall and founded Chapter IV. James Bonham, a first-year cadet at VMI in 1869 was initiated by the founders in the inaugural year of the fraternity’s existence. This time both brothers rushed to the door, only to find the hallway completely empty.Sigma Nu was founded by three cadets at the Virginia Military Institute in 1869 in direct opposition to hazing, With the purpose of building men of Honor and developing ethical leaders for society, Sigma Nu is one of the ten largest fraternities nationwide with nearly 200 chapters and over 230,000 initiates. As they sat and wondered what it could be, the door of the 3rd floor bedroom slowly opened, paused halfway, and then slammed shut. The power to the house was working perfectly, the windows were shut and there was no one else in the house. Neither one had an explanation for the strange phenomenon. Not quite sure whether or not to believe him, the roommate on the 3rd floor told his friend of the door opening and closing and his light shutting off all by itself. "Oh it was you," he said, "well, you didn't scare me." Unsure of what he was talking about, the young man explained that he had been in the basement reading when he heard someone come inside, and so he was searching the house. Upon entering his friend's room, his brother appeared relieved. As he resumed reading, the other brother continued to search the house and made his way upstairs. The light turned on, but there was no one around. He walked back to his room and hit the light switch. Agitated, he walked into the hall to confront his roommate, whom he thought must have been bored and decided to joke with him, when suddenly, the lights shut off, leaving him in the dark. Meanwhile, on the third floor, the other Sigma Nu brother was reading in his room, when his door slowly opened, then shut, and opened again. He walked up the stairs and found no one on the first floor, but continued to search the home. Since he hadn't heard his friend leave the house, he wondered who would be entering the house unannounced. The young man was surprised, knowing that his brothers left Gettysburg to stay at home for the summer, except for his frat brother on the third floor. As the brother in the basement read his book, he heard the sound of the front door opening upstairs, someone taking off a raincoat, and walking up the stairs. One was reading in the basement and the other was in his room on the third floor. One rainy night during a summer holiday, two students were living in the spacious home. Many houses on West Broadway have reported sightings of strange phenomenon, but the Sigma Nu house has had more than its share of happenings. A fraternity house is often the place of pranksters, but this frat house boasts a ghostly prankster.
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