The Kappa Sigma Colony of Southern Polytechnic State University originally began on July 28, 1997 with the goal of becoming a Sigma Chi Chapter. We named ourselves Beta Sigma Chi understanding that we had many fraternal lessons to learn. As we began our intellectual journey of becoming Brothers of Sigma Chi, we recognized many of the hurdles we would face. Gaining a national charter is a task we all quickly realized was a tremendous undertaking that required humbleness and dedication.

We included our Sigma Chi goal as part of the chapter name and humbly took the second letter in the Greek alphabet to symbolize our position to stand behind Sigma Chi, thus we were named Beta Sigma Chi.

Scot Kirkpatrick from Knoxville, Tennessee befriended by Sigma Chi's at ETSU (East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee) wanted to become a Brother in that chapter due to the strong examples of Brotherhood and the Christian way he witnessed young men living their lives. Sadly, to become an Architect, Scot had to transfer to SPSU in Marietta, Georgia, leaving ETSU behind.

SPSU has a wonderful School of Architecture, but did not have a Sigma Chi chapter for Scot to pledge. Having missed the opportunity to learn more about Sigma Chi in Johnson City and now in Marietta, Scot decided that the 5-year architecture program would be enough time to create a Sigma Chi Chapter. Naturally of course, 'anything easy ain't worth a damn'; chapters and charters do not just grow on trees these days. Many issues had to align together to allow for the creation of any fraternal chapter on any campus. He introduced a fellow Architecture student (William Exum of Macon) to Sigma Chi, and the two began to recruit primarily from the School of Architecture. In a short time, from these humble beginnings grew the finest fraternity on the SPSU campus.

Even though Beta Sigma Chi was performing at a high academic level, conducting many community service projects, and winning or competing in most Greek campus events, SPSU was not on the developmental drawing board for Sigma Chi. After nearly seven years of dedication, Sigma Chi suggested that SPSU would not benefit Sigma Chi's international goals for expansion and that the Brothers of Beta Sigma Chi would be better suited perusing other organizations for expansion and chartering. This ended the successful, educational relationship with Sigma Chi that was instrumental to our fraternal success as a Chapter to this point.

Beta Sigma Chi had become the largest and most successful fraternity on campus and excelled every year at many different fraternal goals. Our dedication to friendship, justice, and learning was appealing to many other organizations that did have SPSU in their expansion goals; quickly we began interviewing these organizations. After careful consideration and debate, three interested international fraternities were selected for an election. On December 13th, 2004, Kappa Sigma won in glorious fashion and we have since become a colony of Kappa Sigma. We eagerly look forward to the day we can aid in the continued pursuit of Stephen Alonzo Jackson's dream of making the Star & Crescent the pride of every college and university in the land.

Since the beginning, our Chapter has recruited and initiated nearly 100 members and today we stand poised to bring over half of those men into brotherhood with Kappa Sigma. Over the years, our ranks have thinned, but those Brothers not with us, are continually bound fraternally with the unmistakable bonds of struggle. Brothers who have been part of the finest local fraternity SPSU or the Greek world has ever seen. With the teachings of our Lord, Sigma Chi and singular desire, our fraternity has fiercely defended itself against many internal and external obstacles. We bare many scars of Brotherhood and have a complex lineage that will continue to display our strength of character that has been built through adversity. Becoming a part of Kappa Sigma will deliver us into a new family that will continue to nurture our Chapter and let generations of men share friendship on a higher order.

This is who I am.