I agree with a lot of the constructive comments all the collegiate Greeks have posted about your high school group. It's obvious that you all believe in what you are doing; just remember to keep it in the right perspective... ;)

You must be really unpopular if you want to start a fraternity. Join the athletics program if you want to be popular. it's four years, wait until college. Make the grades and get into a good school with a large greek population!

Bob Dole!

Hook'Em!

do you go to school with him, cause you sound like a child?:rolleyes:

We had hs fraternities and sororities, but my class killed the sororities and the fraternities were long gone. There weren't enough rushees to have rush and they were officially disbanded that year. Mostly people joined them for the leadouts and the status and we had a ball replace the leadouts. There were a bad idea...made it easier to have tight knit cliques and had major alcohol problems.

Wow, everyone, please do not judge anyone else from Texas based on this posting. Thank you.

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Don't worry, all Horns sound like that.
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Hugs and kisses,
That other Texas school just up I-35 ;)

LoL .. thank you for making my evening.

Um, where do you get off using "AOT"? Who the phuk are you? Angelina Jolie?

So "always" means since 1946? Does that mean my GLO, founded in 1874, has been around since FOREVER?

Perhaps some are refering to the youth groups that some sororities and fraternities have at high schools.

Well, when you're in high school, like something that has been around for like 62 years is totally like hella old. And like something that has been around for like 134 years is totally like even older than that. So yeah, your GLO has totally like been around since like forever. ;)

In different parts of the country, there are highschools which permit those types of organizations. Based on my understand of a conversationt hat I had once with an individual who was i one, they are just local bodies, not incorporated and do not have a national presence. I will say;however that in the High School I attended, there were attempts made to that affect to no avail because administration got complaints that from local gangs represented in the school that it was unfair to let some students promote their affiliation while others were not allowed. Since administration was stupid, the couldn't justifiy the the exception so the fraternity was dissolved.

I will not tell you what you can not do. You can do whatever you want to do with the proper research and preparation. I would suggest that you look at some of the christian sororities and frats because they formed these orgs in non-traditional atomspheres. They might be a good resource to you.

My younger brother (who is in fifth grade) is a member of a GLO called Sigma Beta, or something along those lines.
It is sponsered by a College level fraternity and they allow 5th-12th graders to join. The main purpose is for educational growth, but my brother is a part of a Step team thru it. By being in this group, he has a better chance of being in the fraternity at a college level. but this orginization was not started by people at their school. I doubt you will be able to start your own without the help of an existing GLO.
but i may be wrong

High school fraternities and sororities are still popular in some places. They tend to operate across several high schools within the same town. I was not a member of one but most of my high school friends were(are). See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi_Kap...nal_Fraternity or http://deltabetasigma.com/

Your website link doesn't come up. The link for the org doesn't lead to anything in the listing on wikipedia. Your myspace page comes up on a google search, though. Interesting. The founding date is mid-October, but you say because of the "Christmas season" in which you were founded your colors are red and green. Wouldn't orange and black have been more appropriate to the season? And so you're now going to "charter" chapters at colleges in addtion to high schools? How are you getting college guys to join a historically high school-based fraternity? And what is up with that strange video montage set to music of high school-looking-age guys circa the 1960s eating pizza and then giving each other buzz haircuts? I'm going to be honest, it creeped me out.

We had a sorority and a black fraternity which were both city-wide. The sorority did quite a bit of philanthropy, but besides it's formal wasn't terribly exciting. The "hazing" of the big brothers was a blast.

Long Island Alph sigma phi, (High school)
 

On Long Island There was lots of High school fraternitys. Alph sigma Phi was #1.

Learn how to spell!

Alpha Sigma Phi... kind of like that really big, old college fraternity founded at Yale? Hm. I'm glad ample research was done when that high school one was named.

AEI
 

The High school one was started by AEI from yale. We just dont know by who and when? ( Lost history)

idk about starting a Fraternity, but you can start a Greek Letter Organization. My school's step teams both boys and girls have Greek letters as well as a National Math org. called Mu Alpha Theta that competes nation wide. So i think it is definitely possible.

This seems to be a growing trend, but the idea of step teams and other groups with greek letters is quite annoying since college fraternities, sororities, and like organizations have traditionally used them for many many years. When we say "Greek Letter Organization" or GLO we are talking about college sororities and fraternities, not step teams and high school groups. All of you need to focus on school and wait until college to try and be "greek."

I agree. You slap some Greek letters on something and call it a GLO? Seems kind of useless. Our Greek letters MEAN something, and our organizations have grown from just a few men and women to thousands upon thousands of members, for 100+ years in some cases. We have traditions and rituals that have been passed down all of those years, and we all live by a set of values shared by all of our brothers and sisters.

But you have a dance club at your high school that you just happen to call Delta Alpha Nu? Or a debate team that you've named Sigma Tau Phi Upsilon?

What's the reasoning? Because all of the cool college kids are doing it?

Ha!

Mu Alpha Theta's been around for years, but its purpose is not to back a step team - its purpose is to celebrate and further the study of mathematics. If there's a chapter out there not doing that and serving as a "front" for a step team, they should have their charter yanked.

It is unnecessary for HS step teams (or clubs, or cheerleading squads, or any other non-Greek organizations) to have Greek letters. Whatever happened to Key Club, or Honor Society, or FBLA, or Drama Club (I know I'm dating myself a bit....LOL).

If you want to be a step team, then go ahead, but you don't need Greek letters just to name a stepteam. Even using a "faux" Greek name (like Step Phi Step, that's been done before) is better than all Greek letters. But don't try to be something that you are not. It dilutes the real meaning of Greekdom and creates an untrue picture of what real GLOs are about.

This ORIGINAL POST QUESTION was dated back in 99. It is ashame the responses that were given. All the negative responses to an innocent question. All the innocent answers given a negative response. WOW! And this is who High School students look up too. Obviously, these kids want to follow in the footsteps of those college frats and sororities. That is why so many of them create these types of organization in High School. Some of these kids don't even have much to look forward to until something like this is created. So many students go on to college, sad to say, to experince that kind of thing. Some of them are not allowed to. Some of them cannot afford to. SO to have it in high school gives them a great appreciation for the history of Greek Organization. Do you realize without a lot of these high school step teams, some students and their parents do not even know about college Greek Organizations. Or they know about them and do not know the importance of them. I was shocked to see so many African American Greeks respond so negatively. Before your Greek Fathers and Mothers stood for this, African Americans had no voice. Do you realize that most of your freedom fighters were Greek? Today that is knowledge that those in high school need to know. It gets them ready for college. It gives them a sence of pride to be apart of changing history. I live in Ruidoso, New Mexico. Im originally from Houston. I stepped in high school. It was a great experience. I could not go on to college to do so as I planned because I became very very ill. My high school sorority was the closest I got to being apart of that freedom. I now am the sponsor for The Ruidoso Warrior Steppers. I have a Delta Sigma Theta Sponsor also. These kids have learned about so many of you and some of them have their favorites. I never fail to mention history. This town is so happy for this program. They have never been happier. What's interesting about my kids is that they stand for something. They stand for change and togetherness. I have only 3 blacks on the team. I have a mixture of Native Americans, Indian, Mexicans, and whites. And they all look up to you College Greeks. My 2 that are graduating have now started to look for Colleges with Greek Oganization so they can continue standing for what they believe in. I would hate for them to look at the responses for a simple question posted here. I welcome all responses, even the negative ones. Change has come. Welcome it! For without change, most of our special activites, college, high schools, middle school and whatever, would seize to exist...... Sorry if some words have been mispelled.

QFP

So...you register today to try to "school" people on the internet?

Folks weren't responding harshly to the 1999 post -- maybe you should go back and read before you type :)

And high school kids shouldn't be looking up to usernames, anyway. If they want to learn about GLOs, they can do that without joining high school "fraternities and sororities."

That was the dumbest post in a minute.

No, most of the freedom fighters were NOT in GLOs/BGLOs.

I mean, it really just looks like the person wanted to bash the hell out of black people (agreed, whoever wrote that is retarded, we were enslaved, how could we be a part of Greek society? and the freedom fighters didn't mess around with Greek life, they were too busy trying to get the African Americans their rights.)
I myself am an African American in one of the few fraternities that had no limitations in terms of race, color, creed, or sexual orientation. (Ain't nothin' like bein' a Teke.)
greek life has nothing to do with african american rights. we fought for those. we're still fighting for them.
don't try to take us back to u.s. history, because you will get schooled.

signed,
the pre-law major who decided to follow his dreams instead of becoming a renowned lawyer,
DJ
Tau Kappa Epsilon, Kappa-Sigma Colony, #107 Fresh Prince (#1 of the Gamma Line)

:confused:

Are you smoking something?

No, I am not smoking something.
 

I'm Black. But I'm not in a Black fraternity, nor am I in a fraternity that cares about race/religion/sexual orientation.
Did that register?

Actually...

From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TKE). Not the best source, of course, but its pretty commonly known.

And it must be something strong too.

Eh, you should probably sit down somewhere and be quiet. This is your first warning.

How do I start a high school fraternity

You cant. The End

Hmm, not looking at colleges that will advance their career regardless of whether they have a strong greek system or not?

**Flashing back to 96**

"What you come to college for?"

"I'm the first in my family, want to pursue a career."

"I want to be a doctor."

"I want to be a (insert favorite frat/sorority)"

**Snapping back**

Wait sorry about that I'm back.

Okay there is sooo much wrong with this post. So much in fact that this should be quoted and posted everywhere of why there should not be High School Greeks.

wow... i posted a response before I read everything.. this one took a turn! Funny!

i don't think Vito was challenging him on that fact, but rather on the entire post. It was just weird. :p