 Additionally, another national fraternity already existed using the name Sigma Phi.The founders responded that their new fraternity would be different from the others at Richmond, as was being founded upon biblical, egalitarian principles, and new members would quickly be taken in from the undergraduate classes to increase the new fraternity's size, and the fraternity's name was still open to debate.With these assurances from the founders, the faculty committee approved the new fraternity's request for official recognition.