About Mu Zeta

"We, the Brothers of Mu Zeta, believe that the Mission of Lambda Chi Alpha, Mu Zeta, is to foster a lifelong Brotherhood, to strive for the best Academic Standards, and to prepare our Members to become positive Role Models and Leaders in our Community; through the development of Leadership Skills, Service to the Community, and the creation and promotion of a positive and complementary Academic and Social atmosphere."

The vision of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity is to prepare and encourage collegiate men of good character, high ethics, and noble ideals to contribute positively to the world in which they live.

The mission of Lambda Chi Alpha is to offer the best fraternal experience, focusing on personal character development through leadership, scholarship, community service, and positive social experiences.

The Mu Zeta Chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha is the fraternity's thirteenth chapter, and the first on the West Coast. Since its foundation at the University of California, Berkeley on December 15, 1913 the Mu Zeta chapter has initiated over 1300 members.

The Brothers participate in such broad areas of study such as Electrical Engineering/Computer Science, Molecular Cell Biology, English, Political Science, Anthropology, American Studies, Biological Engineering, Architecture, etc.

The Chapter's Annual Daffodil Festival is the longest running philanthropy event on campus, and raises over $3,000 each year, with the help of the sorority women on campus, for the support of local charities.

Chapter activities include, weekly brotherhood events such as broomball, paintball, bowling, movie nights. We also have Semester Parties, Brotherhood retreats, and Destination Unknown.

Brothers also enjoy the opportunity to live at the chapter house with cheap rent, meals, and a five minute walk to campus.

Lambda Chi Alpha was founded by Warren A. Cole, while a student at Boston University, on November 9, 1909; with the expressed objective purpose of bringing about the association together of college students of good moral character in the various collegiate institutions within the United States and Canada; to promote honorable friendship, to cultivate intellectual excellence, to secure for members the greatest advantages in college life, to establish brotherly love, mutual aid, close personal connection between alumni, undergraduates and college, and to bind them together for mutual pleasure and interest in college as well as after life by testing each with courage, self-control, obedience, democracy and courtesy toward all with whom the may come in contact.

Today, Lambda Chi Alpha International Fraternity is one of the largest men's general fraternities in North America with more than 227,000 initiated members and has held subsidiaries (called chapters) at more than 300 universities. From these chapters have emerged more than 215,000 alumni. It was the first fraternity to eliminate pledging and remains a leader in the fight against hazing and other challenges facing today's college student. Lambda Chi Alpha serves to complement higher education by providing opportunities for academic achievement, leadership development, and lifelong friendships. Moreover, Lambda Chi Alpha has a large educational foundation with over $500,000 spent annually through scholarships and grants to undergraduate and graduate members, as well as to its chapters. Lambda Chi Alpha also has a strong commitment to community service with efforts such as the Annual North American Food Drive which generates over 2 million pounds of food to help fight hunger.

Since its foundation Lambda Chi Alpha has striven for excellence in the areas of leadership, service, and academics through the fostering of the highest ideals of brotherhood.

Through the hard work and dedication of its many members Lambda Chi Alpha has accomplished much over the past 91 years. Its alumni have gone on to many great things. Here are just a few examples:

Lambda Chi Alpha does NOT believe in hazing. this is why we do not refer to our rushees as pledges but rather as Associate Members, who from the onset have a vote in all house affairs, as well as the opportunity to run for office and committee positions.