Our Mission, Our Goal

Purpose of Delta Theta Sigma:

We, the members of Delta Theta Sigma Fraternity

In order to promote agriculture

to secure a higher degree of scholarship

to foster the spirit of brotherhood in our vocation

and to insure social and cultural unity

do promote our organization to the fulfillment of these ideals

Many greek organizations have some if not all of the same values that they hold above everything else. For my fraternity, we are slightly different. We do hold many of the same values but we are social professional in the field of agriculture.  The majority of our membership is from west campus majoring in animal sciences, ag. business, ag. economic, ag. education, ag. engineering, etc. but that isn't all we are limited to.  We also have guys from multiple engineering backgrounds such as civil, aerospace, biomedical, etc. as well as journalism and biology majors.  I think that is what makes us great.  We may not all have the same background but our organization was built on agriculture, which reflects the roots of The Ohio State University and it's beginnings as an agriculture school under the name of Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, which is what holds all of together.  DTS has a lot of history and we are proud of our deep connection with the agricultural background of the university.

As I said before, we do hold some of the same values as the rest of the greek community.  We hold eight principles as our outline and accept them as our personal goals for self- improvement.  These eight principles are as follows:

• Fellowship and Lifelong Friendships fostered through Brotherhood

• Promoting the Field of Agriculture and Enhancing the prestige of Our Profession

• Develpment and Improvement of our Social Graces

• Excellence in Scholarship

• Moral and Spiritual Development of the Individual

• Appreciation for Cultural Improvement

• Recognition of Accomplishments of members

• An overall "Persuit of Excellence"

As you can see I have highlighted quite a few words.  These are the things that stand out to me that make me live my life the way I do.  These values are ingrained in my being. They are who I am, but more than that, they are ingrained in everyone of my brothers past, present, and those to come. This isn't to say that we are perfect though. I am not so blind as to say that we don't make mistakes or say that we never faulter from our values and mission statement. Some ways that we faulter are:

• failure to fully apply ourselves to the situation at hand
• internal bickering or arguing about one thing or another
• not fully living up to our purpose

But more often then not we are very congruent to our core values.  We hold scholarship and philanthropy to be very important aspect of our lives.  We have been in the top three fraternities in the IFC the past few quarters. Also, if any of our brothers are struggling in a class or with something there is always someone else that is willing to help in any way they can.  As far as philanthropy, last year we started our one philanthropy, Wifflefest, and had a great turn out for the first year of having it.  This year we are having it again and we are very excited to see it grow from last year.  Many of you may have heard about it and should all try to get a team together.  It's a lot of fun and its a great way to give back to society.  Besides its being held on Veteran's Day and we don't have school so what better way to spend your time then playing wiffle ball in a competitive atmosphere while giving back to the community at the same time.