Latino America Unida, Lambda Alpha Upsilon Fraternity, Inc. ( or LAU, also known as Condors) is a Latino oriented

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founded on December 10, 1985, at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The main archive URL i
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In 1998, it became the first East Coast based fraternity to join the majority West Coast and Mid-West based conference of the National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations (NALFO) instead of the majority East Coast based ConcÌlio Nacional de Hermandades Latinas.

Establishment

In the fall of 1985 at the University at Buffalo, sixteen young men of various ethnic backgrounds decided to form a support group that would provide a social and cultural outlet for students of Latin American descent. The university's Greek system lacked an organization dedicated to the needs of the Latino community. To meet those needs, the group chose to pursue recognition as the first Latino-oriented Greek-letter organization on campus. After a brief period of time of being recognized as a colony of La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda fraternity by their institution, the individuals who had joined the group would go on to secede from the rest of Lambda Upsilon Lambda in 1988. In the process of which, they founded the ''Alpha chapter'' of Latino America Unida, Lambda Alpha Upsilon Fraternity, Inc., with them choosing the establishment date of the former colony as the founding date for the fraternity as a whole. The founding fathers are recognized by the fraternity as:

Chapters

Undergraduate chapters

Lambda Alpha Upsilon reserves the Lambda chapter designation for deceased Hermanos.Lambda
In the chapter list below, active chapters ae indicated in bold and inactive chapters are in ''italics''.

Alumni chapters

Iterations beginning with the letter Lambda are reserved for alumni chapters as described below. The alumni chapters of Lambda Alpha Upsilon consist of working professionals and graduate-level students who were inducted as undergraduate members and are established in the workforce or continuing their education while deciding to remain active within the fraternity. Lambda Alpha Upsilon also inducts interested men with at least a bachelor's degree into one of the alumni chapters through the Graduate Induction Process. Lambda Alpha Upsilon officially recognizes the following alumni chapters:

Affiliations

The fraternity is a founding member of the National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations (NALFO).

References

External links

Official website
{{National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations Latino fraternities and sororities Student organizations established in 1985 National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations Student societies in the United States 1985 establishments in New York (state)