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> OT: Where you in a Fraternity in college?, Or a sorority?
Qarl
post Oct 27 2004, 08:10 PM
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This morning, my wife said 914club was like a fraternity. It's almost like we're brothers, and many of us go out of our way to help our fellow 914club members.

Where you in a fraternity (or sorority) in college? Maybe you have a brother or sister here in the group!

I'll start...

Phi Kappa Tau (Alpha Rho Chapter) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Go Jackets!
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post Oct 27 2004, 08:14 PM
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I hope I don't offend anyone, but fuck no. I went to Washington State University, and all the frat houses I went in smelled like a wet bathroom. I choose not to live in that type of habitat. Not that I am the cleanest person (ie clean freak), but it was on the verge of unsanitary. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/barf.gif)
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post Oct 27 2004, 08:17 PM
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Yeah... Georga Tech was full of a bunch of engineers (i.e., Geeks), so it wasn't as bad there as some other schools.

I visited one of our chapters at FSU one year and was shocked.

But anyways... back to the question...
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post Oct 27 2004, 08:20 PM
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Nope, I don't like to apply to be friends with people. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Oct 27 2004, 08:26 PM
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Nope, I don't like to apply to be friends with people.


I hate when people think that this is what Fraternities or sororities are about.

Maybe it was different at Tech.

I visited a bunch of fraternities until I found some guys that I had something in common with. I hung out with them. I chose them, they chose me.

We had one semester to decide if we were compatible. We were and I joined and paid my dues. The "dues" I paid were for running the house and paying dues to the national headquarters. The dues didn't go towards buying my friendship.

Dorm life sucked at Tech.

I think my experience was enriched so much by being part of an organization. We were active on campus, had a great social life, and I actually saved money throughout college versus living in a dorm and buying foot at the cafeteria.

I am still friends with many of these guys to this day.
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post Oct 27 2004, 08:32 PM
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Yep... it was a military-style fraternity.

But it's funny that you say that. Pam calls this place the "Frat-boy board". (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol2.gif)

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post Oct 27 2004, 08:34 PM
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But why did you go looking at fraternities anyway? You basically said you went shopping for a frat to join. Why?
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post Oct 27 2004, 08:37 PM
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people who weren't in a good fraternity, or one at all, don't get it. Some of my very best friends today were in the same fraternity as me. Some of them were my best friends before, too.

Delta Chi - Indiana University (kicked off campus and charter pulled in 2001 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) ) I anticipate recolonization when everyone that was in it has graduated.
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post Oct 27 2004, 08:39 PM
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But why did you go looking at fraternities anyway? You basically said you went shopping for a frat to join. Why?


Well... my freshman roommates in the dorms left a bit to be desired.

Why did I go "shopping" as you put it? I had some family friends that had been in a fraternity and they encouraged me to check it out as a way to enrich my college life.

I'm glad I made the choice.

And Seanery's right, people that weren't in a fraternity (or a good one) don't get it.
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post Oct 27 2004, 08:44 PM
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im at an enginerd school too.

no fratboy here. people say your "buying friends, that buy you booze"

in the words of "curtis" on this bbs-
"half the fun of being under age is trying to get the booze"
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post Oct 27 2004, 08:48 PM
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Sigma Phi Epsilon. Sig Ep.
I was a legacy so they had to let me in.

Kansas State University. Go Wildcats.
'Every man a Wildcat. Every cat a wild man.'

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post Oct 27 2004, 08:53 PM
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QUOTE(seanery @ Oct 27 2004, 06:37 PM)
people who weren't in a good fraternity, or one at all, don't get it.

That's because we haven't been brainwashed.
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post Oct 27 2004, 09:19 PM
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Sure I was - Delam, Delam, Delam........it was a composite repair college (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Oct 27 2004, 09:32 PM
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QUOTE(ChrisReale @ Oct 27 2004, 06:14 PM)
I hope I don't offend anyone, but fuck no.

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I live about a block away from all the frat houses here at UCI and they're a bunch of drunks.

Im not saying I dont enjoy an occasional beer, but they have parties every day. I know college isnt all about school, but you gotta study some time! Frats werent always like this, according to my uncle, but now days it just aint cool. Its like they're trying too hard. AND you can't haze now! Its like the liberal solution to frats...
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post Oct 27 2004, 09:42 PM
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I often see news reports of fraternities at various colleges where someone gets killed because of alcohol poisoning, women are raped, or pledges injured in a hazing accident.

My experience was far from that. We partied on weekends... you could always find someone to have a beer with during the week. We had our girlfriends... We had our hazing stories too, but very conservative compared to the olden days!

And the fraternity life I experienced was nothing like the media pictures it nowadays.

But again, maybe it was the school I was at. Many of us were in very difficult majors. If you didn't make grades, you were often kicked out of that particular college. So we did our share of studying.

Things HAVE changed though. When I went through college, I think there were one or two smokers in the house. When I was last there to visit.. something like 80% of the brothers there smoked..
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post Oct 27 2004, 09:56 PM
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Sigma Alpha Epsilon / University of Arizona

We got kicked off campus and lost our charter in my second junior year. Too many incidents involving hazing, police, alcohol, property damage ...............

Good thing or I probably never would have graduated. Seven years of college down the drain. :finger2:
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post Oct 27 2004, 10:04 PM
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I was in a fraternity at Sac State. No, wait. I wasn't. Sorry. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

I went to plenty of frat houses. Saw a bunch of the girls on my floor pledge. They all wore these little black dresses to their 'mixers'. Went with my hall mate on a hunt for chinese food at 3am for one of his 'brothers' while he was pledging (woke up to him busting down my door and jumping on my bed, his nose an inch from mine). Heard them carrying rocks and chanting something or other on the levy one night.

So.. no. I wasn't in a Fraternity in college. Thanks for asking!

Jen
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post Oct 27 2004, 11:11 PM
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QUOTE(MattR @ Oct 27 2004, 08:32 PM)
AND you can't haze now!

There is still hazing in some frats and sororities (I know, I know, not all of them). But that's the part I don't understand. Why would I go through hazing and being treated like crap and then call those people my "sisters"?

Then again, what do I know? I'm not in one... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

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post Oct 27 2004, 11:27 PM
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My college years were during the anti frat times.

My Daughter was accepted (or whatever you call it) to a Sorority at the University of Oregon last year. She backed out because it all seemed so phoney. No hazing, but lots of buddy buddy and better than thou. I do respect the hard work that the Greek system does for the community, etc. Being a parent of a "sister" can be quite expensive and involved.

-Jeff
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post Oct 27 2004, 11:31 PM
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Kappa Alpha Order Delta Kappa Chapter Steven F. Austin State U.

I didn't graduate from there, but, i did spent my first two years.

I graduated from University of St. Thomas in Houston. No Frats. No Sports. No SCANTRON tests. Just a great liberal arts education.
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