Speechless.

This is not just a weird Brown phenomenon. Chi Psi at UNC all dress up as 'characters' on their composites. So even in the South at a big chapter (not the greatest, but certainly not the worst) this type of behavior can be seen.

I know some of you said that you were OCD about having everyone at the same angle and with the same tie/accessories. We did that one year in my chapter... ended up being the least interesting composite ever. To me there is an optimal level somewhere between this Zete composite and the OCD ones.

To the OP:

Why hate on other people for having fun?

Gee, I wonder what this chapter's GPA and leadership skills are?

Hm, better yet, I wonder what their those stats look like compared to NIU's. :rolleyes:

its called sarcasm. take a chill pill.

Exactly. I think this composite is pretty funny myself.

I think it is cute. very art school.

I agree with NittanyAlum....It's Brown! And, I love the composite.

I remember digging up (or should I say "dusting off") some sorority composites from the 70s and they were along the same line. Kudos for originality!

It is certainly creative. And it is certainly original. Not taking away from creativity or originality. I also think it is entertaining. All that being said, this is not the kind of organization I would have wanted to be a part of when I was an undergraduate (to each his own) and I would be very disappointed in my chapter if they decided to go this route.

I'll also go on to say that I am eghast that this chapter decided to go co-ed. Makes me think they were perhaps struggling as an organization to have made a move like this. I can't imagine one of the top groups at any school deciding to go co-ed. What's the point? That's why you mix with sororites and pair with them for various events. Going co-ed completely changes the atmosphere and culture of a fraternal organization.

Kedzman:

I think you'd be surprised how many chapters at schools went coed in the 60s and 70s. Successful chapters at "fratty" schools. It happened. Many HQs came in making threats, suspending charters changing the dynamic back to what it is today.

These chapters weren't initiating women because they were unsuccessful or it affected their ability to mix. It was just the times. Just as not every chapter of a fraternity at every school is the same, not all chapters are static throughout time.

That is interesting to me. Do you have some other examples? I don't have anything to compare it to. This never happened to a SN chapter as far as I know.

There is an interesting history of co-ed groups on the Alpha Delta Phi (Brown University) website here... http://www.brown.edu/Students/Alpha_...story/coed.php

The Sigma Nu chapter at MIT decided to go coed in 1970. They disaffiliated with the national fraternity and adopted their chapter designation, Epsilon Theta, as their name. Sigma Nu has since recolonized; the chapter was rechartered in 1995.

The same thing happened with the MIT chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha in 1975. They went coed, disaffiliated from the national fraternity, and now go by pika.

And the same thing happened with the MIT chapter of Sigma Alpha Mu. They went coed, disaffiliated from the national fraternity in 1973, and now call themselves Fenway House.

dont judge some weird co-ed frat by its school. the TDX charge in Brown is the Brown football team and is a group of guys that you wouldnt want to mess with lol.

Chi Psi's not in the Big 4 is it?

""Chi Psi's not in the Big 4 is it?"

No Chi Psi is not.

My pledge brother Gregory Marmalard recently visited UNC and checked thing out. The big 4 houses at UNC are Beta, Deke, Phi Delt and Phi Gam.

I love this! We also do composites in a different way, we take them ourselves and have a theme (which I'm not going to share over the internet) that is consistent over the years. After, we each sign the bottom of our own picture, and I have to say that I value these pictures that show character alot more than formal pictures. To each their own though, and I can definitely see the value in having a very nice formal composite, and I wouldn't mind having one formal composite in addition to our traditional one.