Our History
LOCAL HISTORY
The Gamma Chapter is located here at Texas A&M University. It was the fourth chapter started after Houston, Dallas, and Austin on May 20, 2001. It started with nine impressive individuals that had a dream in mind. They all looked forward to embracing the three major principals that adhere to Delta Epsilon Psi: brotherhood, discipline, and commitment. After being inducted into the Multicultural Greek Council the Gamma Chapter strengthened its influence across the Texas A&M University campus, by recruiting exceptional individuals into this fraternity. The members of the Gamma Chapter have become distinguished leaders in other organizations such as the Multicultural Greek Council, Student Government Assoication, Indian Students Association, Pakistani Student Association, and Orthodox Students Association just to name a few. Currently, we have eleven established classes and are always looking for individuals who want to make an impact, not only in the Indian community, but across the Texas A&M campus.
In promoting the South Asian community within the Texas A&M University Campus. The Gamma Chapter of Delta Epsilon Psi hosted one of the biggest events in Texas, Festival of India in 2007. FOI as known by so many people is a large culture event where Indians all over the state of Texas and beyond join together in a weekend to celebrate the great culture of India. Last year at the Texas A&M Campus, FOI was at its full force with a Miss FOI pageant, Talent Show, Basketball Tournament and an entertaining after party with a guest appearance by 112. We also were able to win chapter of the year in Delta Epsilon Psi, competing with our brothers around the nation.
NATIONAL HISTORY
Delta Epsilon Psi was a result of similar thoughts, ideals, and values between eighteen young South Asian men at the University of Texas at Austin. Although they came from different backgrounds and viewpoints, they shared the dream of the ideal South Asian fraternity as a means to promote South Asian culture and give it a unified voice. These men went on to become our Founding Fathers with an unyielding passion to make Delta Epsilon Psi a success. Starting from scratch, with no template or working model to guide them, the Founding Fathers embarked on a journey they hoped would unite and strengthen their community. Instilling brotherhood, discipline, and commitment into their future brothers was their vision.
On October 1st, 1998, Delta Epsilon Psi was founded by those 18 individuals determined to mold their fraternity into a prominent organization not only in their campus, but also throughout the nation. Their ideals and principles would allow Delta Epsilon Psi to expand beyond the confinements of a stereotypical fraternity. Since there was no paradigm to steer them in the proper direction, they alienated the concept of conventional Greek life and implemented a new sense of giving back to the community.
Delta Epsilon Psi structured its Mission Statement to promote the key principles that it believed would be important to turn its brothers into strong leaders. We look to continue and strengthen these views with the addition of young men from various backgrounds, but with an identical vision. Delta Epsilon Psi was not created to separate a group from the whole, but rather to instill the ideas of a whole into a body of unified men. And to this day, though membership has increased exponentially, the feeling of unity prevails over separation simply because the bonds that the brothers share with each other are built with integrity and support.
The beginning was a difficult obstacle course, mainly because there was no true template set for the success of young South Asian men on a University Campus. Brushing off all doubters, cynics and skeptics, the Brothers of Delta Epsilon Psi showed that South Asian people can make a valuable and lasting impact on the community. Since the idea of fraternities held a negative connotation to the majority of college students, Delta Epsilon Psi made it their mission to change that perspective.
During its first year of existence, Delta Epsilon Psi developed many of its principles and traditions which have been carried on to the present. These traditions and principles have inspired others to take up the call and develop chapters of their own at different colleges and universities throughout the nation. The fact that expansion has resulted in chapters across the nation proves that there are individuals present everywhere that are willing to hold and pass on the ideals that symbolizes Delta Epsilon Psi.
We believe our fraternity is like a family. Together we are driven to instill the virtues of brotherhood, discipline, and commitment within our members through various service and social activities. The brotherhood that is built as a member of Delta Epsilon Psi signifies how we work together as one unit rather than individuals. The discipline that is instilled in each brother is exemplified by our attitudes, deeds, and actions. Commitment is apparent in each brother in their pride in our organization and continuing belief its ideals values, and principles.
Our Mission Statement was founded to encompass the values that all our brothers hold:
We the Brothers
of Delta Epsilon Psi
vow to be a fraternity
whose primary purpose is to instill
Brotherhood, Discipline, and Commitment
within its members through
various social and service driven endeavors
Delta Epsilon Psi structured its Mission Statement to promote the key principles that it believed would be important to turn its brothers into strong leaders. We look to continue and strengthen these views with the addition of young men from various backgrounds, but with an identical vision. Delta Epsilon Psi was not created to separate a group from the whole, but rather to instill the ideas of a whole into a body of unified men. And to this day, though membership has increased exponentially, the feeling of unity prevails over separation simply because the bonds that the brothers share with each other are built with integrity and support.
"We don’t turn boys into men, we turn men into leaders."
