Truth time: How many DU'ers were in a Fraternity or Sorority in College?

[absyntheNsugar]

I was - Phi Sigma Kappa at Oregon State.

Anyone else out there? C'mon - don't be ashamed.

Oh yeah - and on edit: which one?

[xultar]

1. ME

[david_vincent]

2. One of the reasons why I chose my alma mater

was that they don't allow any fraternities or sororities. None.
But I still *love* Animal House!

[LynneSin]

3. Kappa Lambda Nu

We were the pretty girls on campas at Lebanon Valley College

Proud of my sorority days!!

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. GDI.

God damned independent.

[Bunny]

27. Sister!

It's good to see you again! Another proud GDI'er!

[jumptheshadow]

47. We had a GDI chapter at Mizzou, too

I knew that the antiwar movement was really gaining traction when I started seeing Greek signs at the Vietnam rallies.

[wryter2000]

5. My sorority

Kappa Delta.

[THUNDER HANDS]

6. I used to get the sororities and fraternities pissed at me

writing for the school newspaper. Our paper was brutal on them.

It was so fun to pick on them too. }(

[Blue-Jay]

7. I was in a fraternity.

It was a service frat, instead of a social frat, though. (that means that we didn't have to stick our thumbs up each others' butts, or wear goofy hats)

[tkulesa]

10. Alpha Phi Omega?

5K service hours and counting.

Edit to add: And, btw, Bill Clinton pledged APO back in college. Figures he'd join a Service Fraternity. I hear he based Americorp on our service program and had some of our board members help get Americorp organized.

[mlawson]

8. Back then (late 60s), frats were pretty much a heterosexual

thing. To join (get through pledge period), you had to all but prove your 'manhood', by dating and 'scoring' with a female. That would not have been something I would have wanted to do.

Besides, frats were expensive; I didn't have the money for such things.

[absyntheNsugar]

14. They have gay fraternities now

Which caused a big stir in the greek community when I was going to college (88-92). Never understood why that pissed off so many people - could be that stupid phobia of the "homosexual agenda" (see this weeks This Modern World.)

Anyway - what's ironic is that much of the hazing fraternities did was supposed to prove one's manhood - yet a lot of it was very borderline gay/straight. Our house didn't haze, but one house at our school had a hazing which involved naked men and sheep. And these guys are worried about a gay fraternity? Gimmie a break!

[murielm99]

17. My daughter was a Kappa Kappa Gamma

(I think that is what they were called, lol), when she was an undergrad. She is gay, and the sorority welcomed her and her partner. She got lots of supportive e-mails from alumns, too. She held every office in her sorority, at one time or another. Now she is a graduate student, and she advises the chapter on her campus. They all cheered and congratulated her when they found out she was engaged to her girlfriend.

I never joined one of those things in the sixties, though. I thought they were stupid, and so did most of my activist friends. Things were split then, between Greek and Freak. Freaks dared not even walk down fraternity row, for fear of being beaten. Things have certainly changed!

[Nikia]

60. Sexuality included in diversity statement by campus Panhel

The Panhellenic council is the Greek women's council. All the sororities agreed to include a diversity statement saying that they all welcomed women of all races, religions, ethnicities, (a couple other things I think), and sexualities. I believe that all the campus sororites had at least one lesbian or bisexual member by the time I left. Once the first ones joined and were accepted, lesbian women on our campus wanted no longer were anti sorority like they were when I was a freshman and no sorority hesitated to offer a bid because a potential new member dated other women.

[boneygrey]

9. I was

Sigma Chi

[newyawker99]

57. Hi boneygrey!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[45th Med]

11. University of Maryland - Munchen - THE LIZARDS

No Greek for me, we were only party hearty!



There was of course, a TURTLES Fraternity.....sigh.....

[tkulesa]

16. Brother, are you a Turtle?

[45th Med]

30. LOL!

You bet your sweet ass I am!

[NoPasaran]

12. Not me

There were a couple of neanderthals from ATO who suggested I "go back to Russia" a few times.

[OneBlueSky]

13. I was, but it was a special situation . . .

a distinguished old fraternity on my campus had turned into an animal house, and they were looking for some find upstanding students to rescue it . . . I got a free meal plan for agreeing to handle the house's finances . . . didn't live in the chapter house, though . . . got free room for being a resident advisor at a dorm (actually, a rather nice old house, formerly the provost's residence) across the street . . . :)

[SoCalDem]

15. My roommate and I were both rushed in college

but, rebels that we were, we showed up for the "reception tea" wearing jeans & moccasins.. (a HIGE no-no in the matching skirt/sweater Bobbie Brooks days):evilgrin:..


We did not even want to join, so this was our "in-their-face" statement of what we thought of them :)

[bobja]

18. I was

Sigma Beta Tau, a relatively adult group with no initiation crap and stressed service. Besides, they ran about everything on campus - Kean University in NJ

[chemp]

19. Once in High School...

a friend, a year older than me was pledging a frat. I was allowed into a beginning of the school year frat party.
Quickly came to the realization that I was one of the few non-plege/member in the frat. Women were allowed in. In droves. It was like they didn't think it was fair to compete with the rest of humanity, so they didn't allow other guys in.
Sickened me. Turned me off to frats. A girl I met there didn't like it either.
Lost my virginity that night (snicker).

[newyawker99]

58. Hi chemp!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Nikia]

20. Kappa Kappa Gamma

When I was in high school, I never thought that I would have joined a sorority. Rush was after we got back from winter break. I decided to see what it was all about and I ended up joining. Our campus Panhellenic council and national organization were very against hazing wo I don't have any hazing horror stories. Belonging to a sorority was a positive experience and different than what most people think. Oh, I still belong to the sorority. You belong for life, not just college. I have not gotten very involved as an alum, but I have been to one initiation ceremony since I've graduated.

[onebigbadwulf]

34. The kappas here are hot.

grrr baby

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. I was a chopper!

Lambda Chi Alpha.

And damn proud of it, and will forever be glad I did. Lots of good friends, it was an incredible house and group of men, and the best part of college. Still give 'em money.

I think fraternities are a wonderful thing, if they aren't obnoxious upper-crust "we're so superior", idiot jock, animal house, or stupidly cruel hazing houses.

When I started college, I had no interest in fraternities and was very against them. But a couple choppers kpt inviting me for dinner, told me about the house, and their strict no-hazing policy finally allowed me to go there, and I fell in love the place, and the guys there. And by golly - ho hazing!

[Lady President]

38. I was pinned to a Lambda Chi

Admittedly he was a jerk, but there were many Lamb Chops who were really great guys. They were the jocks on my campus and a lot of fun.

Btw, I know pinning sounds like a 1950s thing, but I graduated in the mid-90s. :)

[Rabrrrrrr]

53. wow- pinning!

I was in college in the 80s, and I don't think anyone in our house ever did a pinning, but we might have had one . . . the memory is a bit vague nowadays.

Sorry to hear he was a jerk, but glad you got out of the relationship before it was too late!

[Character Assassin]

22. I was a Delt at University of Oregon, where they filmed Animal House

Delta Tau Delta, that is. Gamma Rho chapter.

Some of the guys in the house at the time of the filming were actually in the movie. The Indian guy at the rush party that they shoved all the dorks together with. He's one of us.

We had to visit every single place in the movie before initiation as pledges.

The real Animal House house was actually the Sigma Nu house. It was ripped down my sophomore year to make way for more room for Sacred Heart Hospital, and people from all over showed up to get doors, etc...

Before it was torn down, I attended a Black Flag concert in the basement there, after the band was thrown off campus.

[tigereye]

23. yes I was briefly a Delta Phi Epsilon

I don't know what I was thinking. I think I joined because I thought they were into talking about philosophy ( not typical for a sorority) and smoking pot. Well, the smoking pot thing turned out to be true. It was a very small chapter and no one was a beauty queen by any means, which was cool too. I later quit and sold my pin ( quel horror) to a friend from high school who had pledged them at Bucknell. Later in grad school, when I was asked to tell one thing no one would ever believe about me, having belonged to a sorority was it!

[fishnfla]

24. Pi Kappa Alpha

I was a Pike at Creighton University in Omaha NE.

[onebigbadwulf]

32. Hell yeah. Pike here too

Didn't even see your post when I posted.

[flamingyouth]

25. Zeta Tau Alpha

University of Washington.

[SpiralHawk]

26. Phi Zappa Krappa

Was the legend on a famously funny poster that was popular in the late '60s and 70s. The poster showed Frank Zappa sitting on a crapper, wearing headphones and smoking a J. I saw it hanging in many a frat bathroom back in those years.

I worked my way through school as a security guard on the night shift, from 11 pm till 7 am. Then classes. Then crash till next shift. So no time for membership in a frat. But I did have lots of good experiences visiting with friends at various frats. They were always cooking up some kind of misadventure.

[Zomby Woof]

33. no J

A local record store carries that poster, and Zappa has NO J in his mouth. You are right about the time frame - the pic was taken in 1968.

He hated drugs, except for tobacco.

[Faygo Kid]

28. No way - 1969

That's the year I started. Fraternities and sororities were, shall we say, not exactly popular in that era (the war, etc.). Didn't know anybody who joined them. Very few did. The black fraternities and sororities were active, though. They needed to be.

[absyntheNsugar]

29. I will not say my house was "different"...lol

It was pretty typical for the houses on the Oregon State campus - about half Repub/half Dem, with that very strange breed of Oregon Democrat and Oregon Republican (at least back then, the Republicans were the environmentalist, pro-legalization party, and the Democrats were the pro-gun, pro-logging party.)

We didn't haze - so no stories there. I enjoyed it - but can honestly say after 3 years I was ready to go on.

[onebigbadwulf]

31. Pi Kappa Alpha - UC San Diego

~

[Exultant Democracy]

41. Pi Kappa Alpha

at Lehigh before I transfered

[mrbill]

44. did you guys have a firetruck?

Secret passwords: Shield - Diamond.

In a time long, long ago a smart guy at my chapter(bz) bid $125 for a surplus wooden hook-and-ladder truck from the city of dallas. We won and had to figure out where to park an 80-foot firetruck. Driving the rear end was cool, everything was opposite.

On sunday afternoons the members would ride the truck with hidden beer compartments and cruise whiterock lake.

What was the deal with "pikes" and firetrucks?

Any fun hellweek experiences?

[cmd]

35. Phi Delta Alpha - a local sorority at a small college

Our sorority later affiliated with Alpha Delta Pi. I'm a member, but have no real connection with the national.

[ChoralScholar]

36. Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia

Charter member at University of Central Arkansas - Kappa Iota Chapter 1998

[Arbustosux]

37. Sigma Chi Fraternity..

Represent!

[Cheswick2.0]

45. My son is in college currently and is Sigma Chi

It is nice to know there are some lefties in the organization.

[WoodrowFan]

48. (singing) I'm a Chi of Sigma Chi..

and who the hell are you,
we come to school to break the rules,
and drink the golden brew

to hell to hell with Fiji's,
to hell with Phi Delts too,
(etc)

and my Chapter was VERY anti-hazing. I had read my Dad's old pledge book from the 50s (different frat, not a Sig) and swore that I would NEVER subject myself to that. And I never was. As they said, what kind of brother would haze another brother??

One neat thing we did do that wasn't offical was a play on the stuff other frats on campus did to their pledges. They would take them in the middle of the night and leave them at a local cemetary to walk back, usually without coats and such (in an Indiana Winter, COLD). We took our pledges out about midnight, dropped them off (with coats) and drove off. Of course the pledges start to trudge back grumbling about 'what happened to no hazing?" When they came around the first corner of the road their big brothers were there to walk with them. Around the next turn were more brothers. By the time they got back to campus (a couple miles, max) the entire chapter was walking with the pledges in a group. Then we'd have a party at the house.

[Cheswick2.0]

61. that sounds like a great chapter

what a nice bunch of brothers!
I don't think they did any hazing at my son's chapter either. They just kind of did fun stuff, made them dress up in good pants and ties everyday or something.
He really enjoys it and went to Nevada this summer for some kind of leadership training seminar.

[Lady President]

39. Pi Beta Phi

I was a sister of Pi Beta Phi. I'm another person who said they would never join a sorority, but my campus was about 80% Greek. It was a 'go greek or stay geek' environment. Considering it was a small school with nothing else to do, it was a good decision for me.

[Nailzberg]

40. I rushed, joined, and then disassociated

The house wasn't racist, one of the more diverse houses on my campus. But they were homophobic meathead jocks, and were constantly questioning my sexuality (straight) because I was a theater major.

Finally I got sick of them being assholes. Wasn't so much them questioning me, because they saw me with girls. But I had many gay friends in the theater department, and I always felt bad when one of them said they got harassed by a greek, becuase I couldn't tell them for a fact that my house was any different.

[Gore1FL]

42. Beta Sigma Psi -- UM-Rolla

I still have way too many shirts with greek letters on the back!

[ACK]

43. Independant

Hung out with the freaks and the geeks and the drama kids and the punks and the hippies. Just did not need to go there I guess.

[VOX]

46. Fraternity of man -- it was 1968.

Being Greek was incredibly uncool then.

[Braden]

49. Delta Upsilon Fraternity

I never was ashamed of it then, nor am I now.

We had some good times way back when.

[kmla]

50. Yep. Sigma Tau Gamma.

We were absolutely NO hazing. And our memnbership was very diverse. Met some really cool guys.

Have absolutely no regrets about it - would do it all again.

[bbernardini]

51. Also Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia

For those not in the know, it's a music fraternity.

[RobinA]

52. Alpha Sigma Alpha

I refused to take part in any hazing, either as a giver or a receiver. I hate hazing and wish it could be wiped off the face of the earth. It can be. Just say no to hazing.

[Drifter]

54. Alpha Epsilon Pi

Rho Iota chapter. Spring 1984.

Who is ashamed. I participate in a camping/canoe trip every spring with my brothers. After nearly 20 years we will get upwards for 60 - 70 people.

Whenever I travel, I always look to see if any brothers/little sisters live in the area, so that I can contact them. I have family all over the US.

Cheers
Drifter

[bmbmd]

55. McMurry University in Abilene, Texas

did not allow national fraternities on campus, but did allow "Social Clubs". I was, and still am, a "Kiva Bird". Hoot Hoot.

[RedEarth]

56. Fraternity guy here

Used to run a crap table in the fraternity house on the weekends....I was such a two-bit criminal back then. Met my wife at a frat party and also made many good friends.

[rbnyc]

59. co-ed academic fraternity

Alpha Psi Omega

[Khephra]

62. Not in college

But I'm one of the few and proud Liberal Masons.