Pledging Experience

Your journey will begin with a simple and dignified ceremony that marks the beginning of your pledging process.

The pledging process will introduce you to our fraternity, teach you about our history, and help you to grow in Leadership, Friendship, and Service before you decide you wish to become a full member of Alpha Phi Omega.

If you need help at any point during your pledging process, anyone of us will gladly help you, but you will also be given one or more Big Sibs that will be guiding you along the way.

The requirements that we ask of you fall under three categories, which are the cardinal principles of our fraternity. These categories are Leadership, Friendship, and Service.

Leadership

One of our goals as a fraternity is to develop leadership in our members. Leadership skills that will help develop you as a person, that you can use to help maintain and strengthen our fraternity as its future leaders, and that you can use to help serve others.

During the pledging process we will ask you to:

• Attend pledge meetings where you will learn the basics of how we run, and learn about our history, as well as make decisions as a pledgeclass.
• Attend meetings so you can witness how our organization functions, become informed of what is going on with the fraternity and about what events are coming up, and so you can participate along side us.
• Help coordinate one of our events.
• Come together as a pledgeclass and set up and exectue a service project as well as a fundraiser.

We will also provide you with other opportunities to develop your leadership skils… all you have to do is reach out and take them!

Friendship

One of the great benefits to joining any fraternity are the friends you meet and the bonds that form. You will meet new people and gain new friends through the pledging process. It feels great helping other through service, but it feels even better to do so along side a group of people who feel the same way and enjoy it as much as you do.

As a way to help promote this ideal, we ask that you:

• Attend several of our non-service related events… to just have fun!
• Get to know the members of your pledgeclass, who are sharing the pledging experience with you, as well as several members of the fraternity through interviews.
• Get to meet and interact with members from other chapters to introduce you to Alpha Phi Omega beyond San Francisco State, by attending an interchapter event.

Service

Of course we can’t forget about service. Is is the core purpose of our fraternity. To encourage our members to help other in a variety of ways, we organize our service projects into four different categories:

• Service to the chapter
• Service to the campus
• Service to the community
• Service to the country

You will be asked to participate in service projects in each of these areas. We will also ask of you, as well as all of our own members, to commit some time to a fundraiser so we can continue to do the good work that we do.

One Final Step!

Your pledging process will end as it began. You will participate in one final ceremony that will establish your commitment to Leadership, Friendship, and Service and allow us to welcome you as a full member of Alpha Phi Omega.