Mu Beta Psi
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| Founded | November 5, 1925 North Carolina State University |
| Type | Service |
| Scope | National |
| Colors | Red and White |
| Flower | Red and White American Beauty Rose |
| Chapters | 15 lettered, 1 alumni |
| Headquarters | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States |
| Homepage | mubetapsi.org |
Mu Beta Psi National Honorary Musical Fraternity is a service and music fraternity with chapters and colonies at universities throughout the eastern United States. Founded in 1925 at North Carolina State University by the director of bands, Major Percy Walter "Daddy" Price, this group began as a male-only, honor fraternity for colleges lacking a music major. It spread early to several colleges throughout the southern United States. In the early 1960s it expanded eligibility requirements to admit women. By the early 2000s, the fraternity had expanded to several colleges through the eastern United States, both in the north and south.
Although the name contains National Honorary Musical Fraternity, Mu Beta Psi views itself as primarily a music service group. Several of the chapters run scholarship programs and pride themselves on providing service to their music departments.
Any member of the fraternity is referred to as a "Brother" without regard to the member's sex. This practice comes from the fraternity's beginnings and is used in context as a designation of membership status, not gender.
[edit] Chapters
The chapters were named in order of their acceptance to Mu Beta Psi. Active chapters are:
| Alpha (Α) | North Carolina State University | Raleigh, NC |
| Zeta (Ζ) | Michigan Technological University | Houghton, MI |
| Mu (Μ) | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC |
| Nu (Ν) | State University of New York at Oswego | Oswego, NY |
| Omicron (Ο) | Roanoke College | Salem, VA |
| Pi (Π) | Rutgers University | New Brunswick, NJ |
In addition, Mu Beta Psi has an Alumni Association that is considered an active chapter. The Alumni Association is open to alumni of all Mu Beta Psi chapters, active or otherwise.
