Rahim Alem always has his brother Chad Jones with him on the field.But the junior defensive end can take the field this season and his fraternity brothers will be in the crowd.    Alem is member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity, and his fraternity brothers take road trips to the Tigers’ away games.”That is just a tradition our fraternity holds,” said Dominique Mathurin, president of LSU’s chapter. “It is good that he is on the football team, and we can travel while he is in the game, but it is something that we would have done anyway even if he wasn’t on the football team.”The fraternity was founded Nov. 17, 1911, by three undergraduate students and a faculty advisor at Howard University. It was the first black fraternity on LSU’s campus when it was founded in 1975.Mathurin said the fraternity uses road trips as an opportunity to get to know other members of the fraternity across the country. Alem said the fraternity members meet each other at conferences, so the road trips also serve as a chance to keep in touch with other members from their area. “We’re not just an on campus organization,” Alem said. “We’ve got a game, they call the brothers over there, they road trip and go kick it with them.”Alem said he wanted to be a member of the fraternity since he was young.”I used to see them around in New Orleans,” he said. “Seeing the brothers at SUNO, Xavier and Dillard, I just grew up around them.”Alem said he and a friend from St. Augustine High School in New Orleans both ended up pledging Omega Psi Phi. “We didn’t tell each other we were going to be at the first meeting,” said Benjamin Brown, Alem’s high school friend. “When we saw each other we just looked at each other and nodded.” Alem said he still finds time to meet his fraternity brothers when he travels with the team despite the busy weekend. “When we went to the stadium for Florida, I called them,” Alem said. “They came, and we kicked it.” Alem leads the Tigers’ with three sacks and knows he always has support from his fraternity brothers when he is on the road.Two of his sacks happened in away games.  Alem said he gets particularly excited when he plays his fraternity brothers from other schools, such as Ohio State senior cornerback Malcom Jenkins and Georgia senior safety CJ Byrd.When other members of the fraternity travel to LSU, either to play or simply to enjoy the game, they know someone is hoping they do well.”Other chapters have road tripped with their players,” Brown said. “For Appalachian State, we had fraternity down for that game. That is how you actually enjoy and live the frat. It is more than just college and what you see; it is a life commitment.” —-Contact Amos Morale at [email protected]