Although the fraternity is relatively small, as a collective it has made history.

Founded in 1847 at New York University, the fraternity is the first to go west of the Mississippi River and the first fraternity to go to Canada.

It is also the only fraternity to simultaneously have chapters at all eight Ivy League schools.

Tyler Boisvert, the director of operations for Zeta Psi Fraternity Inc., said the organization is happy to have expanded at a successful school like MSU. 

“We always try to bring in the best schools into our fold, so even though we’re a small fraternity, we really think of ourselves as going to the best schools in the world and we’re glad that includes Michigan State,” Boisvert said.

He said the process of bringing Zeta Psi to MSU took eight months.

Sina Ghobadi, world politics junior and president of Zeta Psi, is responsible for making the phone call to bring a chapter to campus.  

“I’m very involved on campus, I was class president last year and I really wanted to create something to build a tradition and leave a legacy,” Ghobadi said. “At the end of last semester, I decided to contact Zeta Psi international fraternity, and with a group of friends we created this colony in our chapter by multiple student leaders.”

While being involved on campus himself, Ghobadi also wants to make sure the members have a similar mindset. 

“We want well-rounded students, we want them to do well in academics and come and join us whenever we do philanthropy events, just making it more well rounded is the ultimate goal of this chapter and creating lifelong friends,” Ghobadi said.

Alexander Balinski, human biology senior and vice president of Zeta Psi, said that although the chapter is relatively new, members plan to make a name for themselves within greek life on campus.

“Our main objective is to really integrate ourselves within greek life because a lot of houses don’t necessarily know of us yet because we’re so new but we have been starting to get to know other chapters,” Balinski said.