I'm a pledge this quarter for Delta Tau Delta, Theta Lambda Chapter at UC Riverside. Viva los Delts.

I was a sister of Kappa Alpha Theta in school.

Alpha Tau Omega here. Theta Mu chapter.

Shout out to my fellow blackfoot/whitefoot Sigma Nu's out there.

I love the ATO guys on campus here. They were the only other frat I considered rushing.

Theta Xi Fraternity. Kappa Alpha Theta was recently disbanded at my school for charter violations, sorry Missy :(

I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member....

(Groucho Marx)

I'm rushing Phi Mu Alph this semester...

Not much else to say. . .

I was a band nerd...dose that count?

I was a band nerd...dose that count?

I considered joining a frat for a very long time. rushed during numerous rush weeks. Turns out it just wasn't for me. I've never gone to a big fraternity school, so I can't say much about them. One of my best friends is in a frat, but we were friends before going to college.

i think the type of university a person attends will have a large impact on the fraternity scene at that university. Now i'm going to uni in the city, and since there's so much to do, the fraternity scene is small compared to the entire school population.

Back when i was going to school in RIT, the frat scene was a lot larger than where I'm at now because you needed a car to get anywhere most of the time, and most freshmen dont have that so many join frats for social activities. But it's a technology school, so it still wasn't a *huge* fraternity scene.

I imagine its a lot differant at a state university or a university that has a huge huge sports scene with a gigantic stadium to seat 10's of thousands of people.

but yeah, i checked out the fraternity thing, decided after a long time it wasn't for me. Still thinkin on that whole freemason thing though.

Virginia Tech is so anti-Greek that the vast majority of Greek activities feel like they're underground, even when they're legal. Greek organizations can't advertise for social events through school newspaper ads, they can't post fliers, and they can't hand out invitations on campus. This includes both parties and philanthopic events. There's a "Rush Day" on campus, but that event is closely monitored by university administration for violations of the social codes. The town of Blacksburg has imposed a "Greek Housing Ordinance Code," which says that no existing properties can ever be zoned Greek... what that means is that frats can't buy houses off campus that aren't already frat houses. If a frat sells its house to a residental owner, the house becomes "non-Greek" and can never again be purchased by a frat. There's no way to start up new frat chapters at this school, because you wouldn't be able to get a house. The existing frats are being pushed into on-campus housing facilities, where the university can enforce anti-drinking and anti-party laws.

The university only allowed frats at all in 1972, which is when all the underground organizations surfaced.

Being in a frat at VT is like being in a little private club that throws parties every few weeks where all the same people come.

Pi Kappa Alpha - Eta Upsilum (UT Arlington)

We had our charter pulled in 2000. Spring 2005 will be the first semester we are back on campus. We've got a great group of guys, just about everyone on our exec council had decided not to join a fraternity the the first two years of college because they weren't impressed with our schools greek system. When offered a clean slate to build a colony, the way we wanted, we all jumped on it.

In reality, the greek system is only what YOU make of it.

I'm not greek but my neighbor is. He runs a really good Greek restaurant. Mmmmmmm I like greek food. Frat geeks are not greeks and never will be no matter how hard they try.

There were only about one person in my school that I'd consider seriously geeky. This is a girl who would wear a cape as everyday clothing... after that, it's become very hard for me to say anyone else even comes close.

I'm learning Greek - does that count?

Well, at the moment I am avoiding doing Greek homework, and desperately trying not to think about the final (If you ever see an Ancient Greek course that uses Hansen and Quinn as the text - run).

way to go ibis!
it sounds like you really "get" the benefit of greek life, and I wish ya'll the best.
A year before I pledged, a group of guys got together and wanted to start their own fraternity, and were "rushed" in a sense by national fraternities that did not have a presence on campus. They picked Beta, but had trouble with the school because the Betas before had been troublesome for the administration. It was not until my junior year that we completed the interest group-colony-chapter transition.
Good luck!

I'd go Greek if I had the option, but my tight university is 0% Greek.

former president phi delta theta - delta zeta

until we were shut down of course, not to worry though, we'll be back. somehow i remain an alumni

I'm originally from the UK so I could be pictish, celtic, norman, viking, or roman for all I know.

My old roommate was an AZD, and it was nothing but drama, drama, drama ALLLL the live long day. One of my best friends was a really great person until she went to W&L and got to be president of her sorority, and now has turned into the stereotypical overachieving, drinking, whoring sorority chick.

I have never ever ever heard of a fraternity or a sorority that wasn't a totaly excuse to be a dumbass. No offense intended to those of you who were/are greek and aren't total dumbasses.

Auburn alum here, too. Lived across the creek from the TKEs for 4 years (or so). Never cared for them much.

I was a Theta Xi at Auburn. Spent too much time socializing and not enough time studying. I'm lucky I graduated.

While I was in school, I was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon @ Old Dominion University (Virginia Xi).

When I arrived @ ODU, I saw all of the signs saying “Go Greek!” I always said I would never join a fraternity. I had seen all of the stereotypes of the guys that fraternities take, and I knew I wasn’t in that group.

I spent time in the dorms (so bleeping boring), and finally one night my roommate suggested we go to a rush event. They were providing a “Campus tour SigEp style” which translated into having a shot walk (we’d walk to certain houses around the ODU campus, take a shot, and then go to the next one). That ended with a party @ one of the brother houses.

It was during this party that I got a chance to see how close the brothers were with each other. This is what made me want to join that fraternity. From that night on, my view of that particular fraternity was changed forever.

I can honestly say that I am lucky that I attended that event. The rest of my time @ ODU would have been so different otherwise.