If my presence offends you, I apologize

not at all. you have done nothing offensive.

it is just seems unusual for a grown man in his 50's who is not greek affiliated to seek out and join a website about greek life.

I stumbled upon this web site by accident. I have to say that I found some of the postings quite interesting. I work in consumer research and spend a lot of time on college campuses.

Back in the 1970s at colleges in the northeast, joining a fraternity or sorority would be have been considered unusual at the very least.

It is not that I am anti-Greek, far from it. I notice that in a lot of postings, the advice given is "go where you feel that you fit in." To be honest, I didn't feel that I would fit in with the fraternities on my campus back then. Like I said, under a different set of circumstances things could have been different

you don't need to apologize, nor explain yourself to anyone here. welcome. :)

No, not really. Doing something that isn't the most popular thing on campus doesn't make it "unusual."

So what kind of questions do you have?

Well, by definition, if it isn't a usual thing, it's an unusual thing. :p

Well, he made it sound like it was like riding a unicorn down the street. I've seen yearbooks from the 1970s from Northeastern schools, and several of them have quite large and quite numerous sorority and fraternity chapters pictured. I think the OP is imposing his very small window of experience on a very large geographic region.

At least it's someone other than a Southerner doing it this time. For that, I am happy.