About Us

A Society dedicated to giving you the very best in almost relevant fake news, sorority stereotypes, and unacademic critiques of religion. Founded a very very long time ago, the NoZe Brotherhood has been devoted to satirizing anyone who has the audacity to exist on the University of Baylor’s campus.

Founded in Brooks Hall in 1918, our society was originally formed as a joke regarding Leonard Shoaf, a freshman with a large nose. Shoaf’s nose was of “such great length and breadth of nostril” that his friends proclaimed they could “form a club around it”. The group was said to be named NoZe just after Shoaf’s nose, but all the members in the group had peculiar noses. The group was formed by a group of men who often met inside of Brooks and decided they wanted to create their own men’s club since the Baylor University Chamber of Commerce was, unfortunately, the only other option.

We became a popular, irreverent campus fixture in the years that followed, poking fun at our rivals, the Baylor University Chamber of Commerce, appearing in Baylor’s yearbook the Round-Up, and writing the occasional humorous piece for the yearbook or Baylor’s newspaper, The Lariat. Targets of the NoZe Brothers’ mirth have included Baylor’s faculty, administration, the Southern Baptist Convention, various student organizations, and ourselves. From our inception in 1918 through to the early 1960s, members were open about their participation, but now, as more people began to criticize out paper and threaten us with lawsuits, we keep our identities secret, “snitches get stitches.”

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand the NoZe brothers. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical readers head. There’s also NoZe’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into their articles – their personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realize that they’re not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike the NoZe brothers truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in NoZe existencial catchphrase “Keko Keko Muckity Muck,” which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev’s Russian epic Fathers and Sons. 

I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Bro. Istnabul (Not ConstantiNoZeple)’s genius unfolds itself on their papers. What fools… how I pity them. And yes by the way, I DO have a NoZe tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the ladies’ eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they’re within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.