The Greeks take over my campus.

What school do you go to where the greek community "runs" campus, yet dues are 3,500 a semester? This sounds odd, to say the least.

Calling iammatt, grimslade, Manton and J-Lib! Another damn Greek thread!

3500 sounds like half of tuition (in UT atleast) to just be in a frat/soro. i take it, the dues do not include living in the house either?

if its making you that unhappy either transfer or join a frat. don't be a complaining pussy.

Join them. Knowing that system personally, if you're not a greek at Bama, you miss out on a significant part of the culture of that campus.

Honestly, the greek community gets a shit rap, most of it undeserved. But know what you're in for. PM me if you want the full, honest truth.

Fucking GDIs.

K

Tough situation. If it's not for you, then it's not for you. I just hope that your "hate" for the Greek is warranted. Try it out, what is the worst that can happen? I wasn't big into Greek life, but I was very socially active in athletics in college. In ten years will this really matter?

I started my own fraternity. Pi Omega Theta Made up a bunch of t-shirts, cut Greek letters out of plywood and erected them above the door to my rented house.

I am more familiar with the Greek scene of Thucydides than I am with the fraternity subculture. Other than honorary fraternities, I never had anything to do with fraternities. However, my stepson has been very active in Kappa Sigma throughout his unending undergraduate education. The notion that fraternities "beat the shit out of pledges" seems very archaic. Both the "nationals" and college administrations are very down on that sort of thing. My boy was very involved in getting the chapter of Kappa Sigma at CSULB reconsituted and getting their charter back from the national organization after it had been suspended for hazing, which they eventually succeeded in doing. At the moment, Sigma Chi is under suspension there for hazing.

One of my very oldest and best friends was president of his fraternity. He said about the only "ordeal" he had to undergo in become a member was consuming very large quantities of alcohol--I guess to see if he could hold his liquor or perhaps on the notion "in vino veritas" and that a man's true character comes out when he's drunk. This would have been about 48 years ago. I think because of deaths they have cracked down on these drinking ordeals. On the other hand, he does have the fraternity's letters branded on his arm!

That $3,500 per semester is strange. My boy's dues are $300 a semester. (I know, I pay them.) If the $3,500 includes room and board at the fraternity house, then that doesn't seem like a bad deal.