A fraternity's comprehensive membership education program is known as "The True Gentleman Initiative". These are what chapters of SAE subscribe to when their guidelines for their pledge education computer program. SAE, rather all the fraternities of the North-American Interfraternity Conference, abide by a nonindulgent anti-hazing policy.

The True Gentleman
A mission of Sigma Alpha Epsilon is to promote a greatest standards of friendly relationship, scholarship & service for its members depending upon a ideals placed forth river per Founders & every bit specifically enunciated inside its creed, "The True Gentleman."

"The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe."

John Walter Wayland (University of Virginia 1899) wrote "The True Gentleman". These are recognized when a creed.

History
A fraternity of Sigma Alpha Epsilin was founded on March 9, 1856 at University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, AL. These are a single living antebellum Southern fraternity in being. It was founded by Noble Leslie DeVotie, John Barratt Rudulph, Samuel Marion Dennis, Thomas Chappell Cook, Abner Edwin Patton, Wade Hyram Hampton Foster, Nathan Elams Cockrell, & John Webb Kerr. Wade Foster served under Confederate General (and Ku Klux Klan founder) Nathan Bedford Forrest during the Civil War. A select few tilt is by having regard to the post-Civil War activities of some of the founders. It has been speculated that many of ΣΑΕ's earliest members were indeed members of the KKK. No doubt, Sestet of the Octonary founders served for the Confederate Army. Of the 2 more founders, Nathan Elams Cockrell, died within his plantation in 1859, 2 years prior to a irruption of the Civil War, and John Webb Kerr tended to school of law at Harvard. The Record
A fraternity communicates through "The Record" magazine. These are published quarterly & has been day and night since 1880. A Record is besides provided for free to a lot active members & alumni.

Famous alumni
Robert Ballard - Explorer, Located a wreck of the RMS Titanic Tony Boselli - NFL Player Gary Cowger - President, General Motors Dennis Erickson - NFL Coach William Faulkner - Noble Prize Winner, Literature Joe Foss - Politician, Medal of Honor Recipient Terry Gilliam - Film director Ernie Harwell - Sportscaster Phil Jackson - NBA Coach Nick Lachey - Singer William McKinley - President of the United States Haley Barbour - Governor of Mississippi Richard Myers - Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Elliot Ness - Crimefighter Pat Robertson - Christian Leader Fred Savage - Actor Bo Schembechler - Football Coach, University of Michigan David Spade - Actor Louis B Maytag - President, Maytag Mack Brown - Football Coach University of Texas