Core Values
Lambda Chi Alpha's core values were adopted from the United States Military Academy. They are loyalty, duty, respect, service & stewardship, honor, integrity, and personal courage, which come together to form the acronym LDRSHIP. We are in search of the type of student who already exemplifies these traits and is continually working to better himself as a leader and a man.
Loyalty
Establishes the correct ordering of our obligations and commitments. Unswerving allegiance to the organization and its laws, ideals, and defining principles prevents us from misplacing our loyalties.
Duty
Delineates the sum total of all laws, rules, and customs that make up our organizational, civic, and moral obligations. Our values originate with duty because we expect individuals, as a minimum, to fulfill their obligations. We often expect individuals to exceed their duty, especially in ethical matters.
Respect
Denotes the regard and recognition of the absolute dignity that every human possesses. Specifically, respect indicates compassion for and consideration of others, including sensitivity to, and regard for, the feelings and needs of others.
Service & Stewardship
Service before self signifies the proper ordering of priorities. The welfare of the organization comes before the individual’s. While the focus is on service to Lambda Chi Alpha and broader communities, the idea also incorporates the concept of stewardship, of holding something of value in trust for others.
Honor
Describes the complex of all values that make up the public code of the individual. Significantly, honor provides the motive for action and demands adherence to a public moral code, not protection of reputation.
Integrity
Encompasses the sum total of a person’s set of values — his private moral code. A breach of any of these values will damage the individual’s integrity. Integrity, closely related to the word integer, refers to a notion of completeness or wholeness.
Personal Courage
Depicts the premier virtue that enables us to persevere despite fear, danger, or adversity. Personal Courage includes the notion of taking responsibility for decisions and actions. Additionally, it involves the ability to perform critical self-assessment, to confront new ideas, and to change.
Vision
To lead a co-curricular Greek movement, predicated on partnership and collaboration amongst the undergraduates, host institutions, alumni and General Fraternity, and to offer an experience that focuses on the maturational development of today’s college man. As such, it is the vision of Lambda Chi Alpha to extend itself beyond the traditional social fraternity in practice and principle.
Quick Facts
Founding Date: November 2, 1909
Flower: White Rose
Symbol: Cross & Crescent
Colors: Purple, Green, and Gold
Philanthropies: Feeding America and Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Delta-Mu Brothers Initiated: 366
Open Mottos: Kalepa Ta Kala (Naught Without Labor), Per Crucem Crescens (Crescent in the Cross), Vir Quisque Vir (Every Man a Man)
