From 1971 to 1983, D Phi E and TEP held joint conventions. I don't know why they did it or why they stopped.

Actually at the University of Washington the brother house of the Pi Beta Phi's are the Beta Theta Pis......these UW theta xis are out of the loop...

As a pledge we learn that beta theta pi is are father fraternity and FIJI is our brother fraternity that goes for every theta chapter nationally.

FYI
 

That is not true. Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. was founded in 1920 as the sister organization to Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. This is stated in both of our constitutions.

AEPhi has no brother fraternity nationally, and we are discouraged from becoming fraternity "little sisters" etc.

A lot of people think AEPhi is AEPi's little-sister sorority. I have heard that so many times... My response: "AEPhi: 1909. AEPi: 1913. You do the math." :D

Although you may think you do...but NO NPC sorority has a big brother fraternity, official or unofficial. Check the NPC Guidelines. Now...I'm not saying that locally you don't have a favorite fraternity, but none of us have official big brother fraternities, father fraternties, or sororities, etc.

Example: A Kappa Sigma is the only man who ever has worn the badge of Sigma Sigma Sigma...but we are not Kappa Sigma's little sister sorority. He did write some of our ritual, and we appreciate that. And so many people say that Tri Sigma and Tri Delta are sister sororities. Well, I worked for Tri Delta's national headquarters and this is not true, however we do have long histories that are similar.

Re: FYI
 

I'm sorry, I should have stated that I was only referring to NPC sororities.

It is stated in our new member manuals (I would quote it but I'm not sure if that's allowed) that Sigma Nu is unofficially our brother fraternity. A full page is devoted to it and our flower was even chosen to compliment theirs. Some of our first conventions were held alongside theirs and they held receptions together. All of my chapter's new members are to learn this just as they would their alphabet, insignia, etc. So yes, I would have to say that although it is not official because of Panhellenic guidelines, our National Fraternity recognizes it and it is taught to our new members in our program.

It says in our pledge manuals that they are "dear Sigma Nu," not that they are our brothers. Our founders were indebted to Sigma Nu for their help and support, but the connection is not an official one. Mention it to most Sigma Nus and they look at you like you're insane! They've never heard that.

CutiePie2000 said: "Delta Gamma owes a great deal to George Banta as he was the only male initiate trusted with Delta Gamma's secrets and he was empowered to form chapters in northern institutions of good standing.

However, I have to emphasize that Phi Delta Theta, (great guys that they are) are officially NOT our brother fraternity."




:cool: I do not agree that Phi Delta Theta is not our brother fraternity. They are and always will be our brother fraternity. The Phi Delts have helped us out more than any other fraternity nationally. George Banta, who yes is our only male initiate, helped establish DG in the north....including mine...ETA @ the University of Akron. More recently, Dr. Paul Martin (husband of Dorothy Garrett Martin) has also given Delta Gamma so much. He established the Dorothy Garrett Martin Lectureship in Values and Ethics in the name of his late wife and ETA chapter DG. He has given ETAs thousands of dollars each year in scholarships. The University of Akron has so much Delta Gamma memorabilia on campus because of him, and also our the Foundation building in Columbus at Nationals is called the Dorothy Garrett Martin Center.
To say that the Phi Delts are not our brother fraternity is interesting, especially since these two members have given DG so much....and there are probably more where that came from.

Eta Chapter
University of Akron

DGs brother frat is Phi Delta - Yay George Bantu!

Officially Phi Delta Theta is not our national big brother frat. I understand that some of their brothers are known for helping out DG and I'm glad for that because without them we wouldn't be nearly as great as we are now. I also believe that we (as NPC sororities) should recognize that no sorority should condone brother fraternities and such.

I don't know about other schools or sororities but Delta Gamma also nationally doesn't support big brother/little sister programs either. If you choose to join a big/lil program it is encouraged that you do it as an individual and not part of DG.

-Kelly
Delta Gamma
Eta Delta Chapter
U. of North Florida

Now to be fair Fuzzy, it only has approximately one line in our history chapter that mentions that we had something to do with Alpha Xi Delta being founded... Sigma Tau Gamma and another group who I forgot (hope no one gets mad =) )

You'd be proud of me though -- after having the situation explained to me by the Alpha Xi's on our campus it was one of the first things I taught our new guys :D


LHT,
Kevin

Big Bro/ Lil Sis
 

I just had initiation at OSU and we got big bro's. Our's are the Pike's. I know it is not officially and it might change every year but it is nice. They got us roses and we talked for awhile and they're supposed to be there for us or something like that. My initiated class thought it was very cute!

DZ love and mine!:)

Jessica

I don't know about nationally (somebody said maybe SAE, if we have one at all), but on our campus we always hang out with Sig Ep...they're the guys that we're closest too and we absolutely love 'em:D

Just as a side note Killarny Rose......TKE's are there now.
The only one I ever really heard was KKG and SAE.
We were told at my campus that we were with Pi Lambda Phi...but our old conventions used to be held with Tau Epsilon Phi in the 70's and such.

At UNT....we don't have brother fraternities. Fraternities ask the sororities to mix...basically get together for a party and mingle and meet one another. A fraternitiy can ask any of the sororities.

The founder of Theta had a brother that was a FIJI and a father that was a Beta. This is where they get teh father-brother connection for the fraternities. Other than that that is about the only connection we have with those fraternities. I have never really heard anyone talk about hanging with the Betas, but alot of my sisters do date FIJI'S. But pretty much at my school we have to pair with different fraternities for social events each year. We give these organizations bids or they give them to us.

To clear that up we dont actually have bro-sis relationships there are just certain fraternities that we do more with.

I go to school at Knox College, and here the Pi Phis are technically associated with Phi Delta Theta, although lately (through the freshman class), more Pi Phis associate with TKE.

I think it probably just depends on your school, although I am not sure.

At my school Sigma Pi is our "unofficial" brother organization. I know that if it wasn't for Sigma Pi at CSU Dominguez Hills, Phi Sigma Sigma wouldn't have been started. They contacted our National and asked to form an interest group...
I know that at some other chapters they are tied together also.
:D

When I pledged I got a big bro and it has been great it enables you I feel to meet alot of new people in the Greek community. When we take a lil sis we go around to the local frats and ask one of the guys to be her big bro. We usually ask which frat they would like one from. They usually love to take littles so everyone has one. They are there to listen and watch out for their little sis. I was asked myself to take a little brother. so I wsatch out for him and usually if he needs to talk i'm there for him. So my greek family is big and we all hang out together. It has made my greek life far more fun. But like it has been stated on other posts our nationals don't like this and when they come to visit the my campus where i attend school we don't wear our brother letters or anything with our sis number on it either. We do this only as a local thing and not national.:D :)

Not that it matters, but SAE are no longer recognized by PSU's greek life.

We've been told that SAE's our brother fraternity, we have the same flower (violet) and our mascots are the lion. Although we dont do anything with them along the lines of big brothers etc, we still have mixers with them every year.

are you guys talking about brother/sister like consitutionally bound? or just really cool with each other? phi beta sigma and z-phi-b are constitutionaly bound. they're the only ones i know of.

I know that it is against our national policy to have a big brother fraternity. That is the first that we are close with Theta Chi's nationally.

I know that we mostly hang out with the Pi Kaps but we aren't allowed to have it be official and have a big brother or any of that as it is national policy. :D

I think we used to host leadership councils together. Not sure if that still happens though.

Pi Phi's and Delta Sigs
 

Here the Pi Phi's and Delta Sigs are brother/sister. Also many of the AXiDs date Pi Kapps:)

lady39
 

Being you did not email me back or holla, I am not sure if you got it, email, but to make sure this time, I'll briefly type here what I typed to you.....becuase DU is not on our campus so that makes you want to kick it with us, Phi Taus, girl kick it with the Pi Kapps, cuz we don't need you, not saying it about all the Alpha Phi's, just you!
-Heath

FKT

FarmHouse Fraternity founded Ceres, but the Ceres chapter here is even newer than we are, and only has like 15 members, now.

Okay. . . . . When I was a new member, I was told that none of the NPC were not allowed to have a "brother" fraternity. Of course most of all of us have some frat that help us get est. or wrote a part of our ritual, ect. On my campus, we don't have "brother/sister" GLO. There is ones we are close with but nothing official. Also I was told that alot of the frats can't have "sweethearts" anymore either by IFC... but only 2 on my campus still do. :0) Who knows! We are ALL greek, no matter the letter!

FYI: Guy Potter Benton- Phi Delta Theta is the ONLY man allowed to wear our badge. He helped our founders write our ritual!

Edited to add modifications:

TKE is now normally with either LOY or with DQ. Alpha Sigma Phi is seen most w/CWA. AXN is always w/ZQC.

I had heard the same thing at my school. Sadly the chapter of SAE closed Spring of 2001.

i think XO and XOA are two different organizations.

We don't really have a "brother" fraternity, but we're kinda close with the Phi Delta Thetas because, as all DZs know, a Phi Delt helped our founders get started.

On our campus (Ohio U) having a brother/sister fraternity or sorority is discouraged. We are paired with different organizations for Greek Week and Homecoming, and if you are paired with a certain org you cannot be paired with them during one of those weeks for the next two years, which makes sure everyone takes turns. However, Phi Mu and Theta Chi are very good friends on my campus. We are also close to Phi Kappa Theta and Phi Delta Theta, and have a lot of socials with all three.

Actually, I've been told that Phi Mu's "unofficial" brother organization on a natinal level is KA. Something about both being created in the South and having connections to Robert E. Lee..

really??? I've never heard anything about it, but we don't have a KA chapter at our school. that could be why

Sigma Family
 

I'm a member of Sigma Lambda Gamma Sorority, Inc. Our brother fraternity are the brothers of Sigma Lambda Beta Fraternity, Inc. Our cousins are Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. This is a nationwide thing though not everyone in every chapter/on every campus is aware of this. Plus, not all organizations on every campus are that close. Phi Beta Sigma/Zeta Phi Beta are always close because they are constitutionally bound brother/sister organization. Our chapter of Sigma Lambda Gamma was just founded on our campus, however, and since we are new we aren't as close to our cousins yet as on other campuses.

On our campus, we don't have any sort of brother/sister relationships between our IFC/NPC chapters. I've noticed that each sorority has like two or three fraternities that the members split up between, but that's not always the case. For example, the majority of my sisters hang out with ATOs and FIJIs (I'm not one of them- I'll love my Delts forever...); the majority of Kappas hang out with either KAs or ATOs. I like that there aren't any actual relationships between chapters! And to be really honest, it seems like more GDIs hang out with the fraternities than sorority girls do!