After a 100 year run of campus involvement, Sigma Nu fraternity is no longer part of OU.
At the end of last semester, the members of Sigma Nu decided to forfeit their charter for the time being.
Sigma Nu’s last president, Ben Weinstein, cited low membership and the hope for a new beginning as the deciding factors to forfeit their charter.
“It was nothing disciplinary,” said Weinstein. “Our recent membership numbers just weren’t what we would have liked, so we are voluntarily leaving the OU campus and are looking forward to a fresh beginning. We took a vote, and we think this will be for the better good of Sigma Nu at OU.”
They have chosen to postpone hosting their annual philanthropies, Concert for the Kids and Burgers at the Beach, both of which raise money for St. Jude Children Research Hospital.
In the wake of Sigma Nu’s departure, OU’s Interfraternity Council now has seventeen active chapters. Sigma Nu is the second fraternity to leave the Interfraternity Council in recent years, along with Kappa Sigma fraternity.
Notable alumni of the OU chapter of Sigma Nu include: OU’s first Heisman winner Billy Vessels and Tommy McDonald, a college and professional football hall-of-famer.
Erik Leeviraphan, chapter advisor to Sigma Nu, said the fraternity is planning to be back and active on the OU campus in two years. The alumni of Sigma Nu have already begun a campaign to raise funds for a new chapter house, which should begin construction in the next year.
