ULM’s Phi Mu Alpha music fraternity has been just a colony for about three years, but may soon be able to call themselves an official chapter of the fraternity.
All of the members of the colony will go through an eight to 12 week process in order to finally become a chapter.
According to Chris Pleasant, a colony member and senior music education major from West Monroe, the process will include learning all of the information about the fraternity including its ceremonies and ideals.
“We will actually have to learn the ideals about being a chapter and will actually be able to be a part of the brotherhood,” Pleasant said.
ULM’s big brother chapter, Louisiana Tech, will be the chapter in charge of taking ULM’s colony through the process of becoming a chapter.
Zach Almarode, a junior music education major from West Monroe, said, “We will be working out a schedule for Tech’s chapter to come over here one week and us going over there the next to complete the process.”
If everyone in the colony successfully completes the required process, they will be able to call themselves a chapter by the end of this semester.