But mine is a heart and that's way better than what some museum people say!

hahahahah!!!! I'm SO glad you said that. It brought it all together (and if you didn't say it I was going to add it after you :P)

Thanks! lol This has just been bugging me for a while.

My favorite quote is "if i'm paying for my friends i'm not paying nearly enough"


LOVE IT

We had a rush shirt that said "If you're gonna pay for your friends, you might as well pay for the cool ones."

A couple stereotypes, aside the ones already names:

That were a bunch of girly girls who just party plan and schmooze (actually most of my chapter are self-described "not the sorority types")

And conversely, were a bunch of manly-types who beat pledges up and such. I mean I look tough but I wouldn't bust a grape in a food fight.

Another, sorority girls are only going to college for their MRS degree. Pulease! I can't even count how many of our members have gone on to be doctors, nurses, lawyers, teachers, engineers, etc, etc, etc.

I love all Greek stereotypes because I live out a good majority of them.

My question is simply don't most fraternity members call themselves frats?? i.e. mom to son are you in class right now..
son: nope I'm at the frat house...

It depends on the organization. I might be wrong, but my experience is that the older NIC fraternities, mine included, tend to really dislike the term frat and consider it disrespectful.

This is actually the only reason I tend to use "fraternity" more than "frat." I would always hang out with the Delta Chis, and they (at least the ones on my campus) were very serious about calling it a fraternity. But they didn't exactly have anything against someone if they said "frat". I think they just saw it as, "We're members, we know it's the Delta Chi Fraternity, that's what we call it" kind of thing.

But to each their own.

This.

Many NPHC, NALFO, and MC organizations use the term frequently. It's not considered disrespectful at all.

ETA: I've always wondered why "Soror" never gets the "You wouldn't call your country..." references. It's also an abbreviation, but no one seems to care about that one ::shrug::

YES. The NPC sororities at Hopkins consistently have GPAs above the all-undergraduate and all-female averages, but the "anti-Greek" students make nasty comments about how it's only because we're all majoring in "fluff" majors. While I don't think any major is "fluff", we do have a ton of hard-core pre-med and engineering majors (including biomedical engineering, which is pretty much the uncontested most difficult program at the university) who work their butts off to make the grades they get. It really annoys me that people think we're floating through college with high GPAs because we're taking the easiest classes possible.

Then again Soror is a legitimate word in it's own. Plus I never heard of a sorority referred to as a soror. Like I have heard greeks cal each other frater, and I have no problem with it because of what it means.

Same goes for calling each other "frat" and "frat brother."

Is this really a topic AGAIN? LOL.

Well im pretty sure the word FRATER is something said amongst brothers of Tau Kappa Epsilon. They would refer to eachother as fraters but wouldnt refer to me as one obviously because im not a brother of theirs. thats From what I understood, I may be wrong. Which in return would make me look like a idiot lol

That's what I was referring to, though I don't know if they are the only ones who use the Greek title.

Yep. Sure is. Welcome to GC :p

And among members of other fraternities.

And some NPHCers use it in reference to members of other NPHC fraternities.

No, TKE is not.

There are a lot of frats and fraternities out here. ;)

lol. I only have experience with something like a dozen out of what, something like 80 nationals? Not surprised though because there is a fair amount of overlap between fraternities. Like I know at least a couple call thier president archon.

"Each one, teach one."
"The more you know, the more you grow."
"GC is a learning place."

:p

Exactly. The way I took it was that a fraternity is a brotherhood of men who do community service, give to philanthropy, etc. whereas a frat is what is shown in popular media. A bunch of guys who fight, haze pledges, get drunk and sleep around. I get offended if someone calls my fraternity a frat, even with the best of intentions. (No offense to those groups that refer to themselves as frats, that's just how I was educated.)

Back on topic, I'm in a fraternity, so I MUST drink (copious amounts at that), use words like "broski", "brah" and "brohan", haze pledges like its my job, hook up with as many girls as I can (especially sorority women) and have an endless amount of Dave Matthews, Jack Johnson and Phish albums.

That's the same way I was taught as well.
Never heard that one before.

I've noticed that a lot of stereotypes of fraternity men are the same or similar to guys that are "bros". The muscular, arrogant guys with their collars popped on the three shirts they're wearing who enjoy sports, chilling, and "bro-ing out"

Uhm, no.

Not in Jersey. in Jersey that sterotype goes to the Guidos. :shudders:

/hijack/



I actually had to look up the term Guido. We don't have them here in Texas.:p

/end hijack/

Lucky for you. lol

HAHA jerz stand up!

lol I had no clue there was so much controversy over the world "frat"... I just think each Fraternity should continue teaching its members to call their organization whatever they see fit.

Anywho....

It's the same way at my school. The Greeks typically always have a higher GPA than the school average. This year my sorority was awarded highest GPA. I hate when I tell people that and they think I'm either lying or we didn't work hard for our good grades. The majority of us are working to earn PhDs and MDs, so it's sad that people don't take that seriously just because we're a sorority.

There is no "controversy" here. Just correcting those who try to push their organizations' teachings on everyone else :)

Wasn't this from a Youtube video that some fraternity members created, basically making fun of themselves and fraternities in general?

I can't remember the name of it.

The frat new haircut thing?

No, not that one...

I remember what you're talking about, but the name of the video eludes me too...:confused:

The video has since been removed, but there was this thread about "Fratology"

Is that the one you meant, brohan?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMb3A...412&feature=iv

The video is still up. omg it's so bad. But it brings the question, how do you make something like this but wear letters.

Thanks brotholomew. Anyone up for some Natty Ice and some Gamecube?

hahaha nice video, broseph.

*pops collars*

lmao