Sigma Nu (ΣΝ) is an undergraduate secret-letter college fraternity that was founded by James Frank Hopkins, Greenfield Quarles and James McIlvaine Riley at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia shortly after Hopkins witnessed a severe hazing ritual by upperclassmen at the Virginia Military Institute. Sigma Nu prides itself on its anti-hazing principles, upon which the organization
was founded and continues to uphold through its anti-hazing initiative. The fraternity's values are summarized as an adherence to the principles of love, honor, and truth. Because of its military heritage, Sigma Nu retains many military trappings in its chapter ranks and traditions and places importance on the concept of personal honor. To believe in a Life of love,
To walk in the Way of honor,
To serve in the Light of truth;
This is the Life, the Way, and the Light of Sigma Nu;
This is the Creed of our Fraternity
