Frappes = Ice Cream Shake NOT a milk shake (which is simply milk and syrup mixed together) a frappe is milk syrup and ice cream

Packy = Package store and u better make sure you get there before 9. . . Unless you want to have to buy half pints from the bootlegger in Hartford

Cocked = Wasted, Smashed, Hammered, Blitzed

*Frappes and Jimmies are more Massachusetts terms that I picked up from summers on Nantucket*

Weird enough, OR used this word for the little "How to Frat Hard"

I think the line goes "Tell the dean you've been off drugs for six hours and you're so cocked you're not sure if the dean isn't a cougar so could he roar for you. Smile for the cameras."

That's not verbatim, but whatever.

Confession -- that's really what I meant to say, but I ended up typing "War Between the States" instead. I guess subconsciously I just couldn't let myself go that far. ;):D

Well, since Civil War isn't a very accurate name (the CSA did not try to take over the whole country) I never liked using it, and of course I grew up hearing many others:

The Late Unpleasantness
The War
The War for Southern Independence
The War to Supress Northern Aggression
The War to Supress Northern Arrogance
The War Between the States

I believe TWBTS is the most common.

Anyone want a coffee, regular?
 

Reading this thread makes we want to dig out my "Harvard, Emory of the North" t-shirt that I bought in the bookstore when I was a freshman and wear it to a Red Sox game next spring.

According to my Vanderbilt alum friend, they sold the same shirts at her bookstore too.

My grandparents used that one, usually a little tongue-in-cheek. I still love it. :D

My 11-year-old thinks Civil War is an oxymoron.

So to actually answer your original question....
 

...and I can only speak for my beloved Blue Devils, but Greek Life is important but not all-encompassing. Like Penn, Dartmouth, and other academically rigorous schools (NOT trying to start a flame war here folks, just speaking in generalized terms) the students have a good time and use their sorority/fraternity memberships as social outlets, and not as much as the "if I don't get XYZ I'll be a society outcast forever" mentality you may find at other schools where all things revolve around greek life. MANY of the students at these schools see college as a "stepping stone" to graduate school so focus is on academics first, greek life second or third...its not as high a priority as it may be on other campuses.

As for your specific answers, your best bet is to view each campuses greek life section for additional real-time information. In a school like Duke, your Greek involvement in leadership positions may be extremely high, but it's a smaller campus than a UVA or UNC (20,000 at UNC versus 6,000) so take that into consideration. Many of our former student leaders were Greek though.

And to add to the fun, for many years Duke has been called the Harvard of the South...and also the University of New Jersey at Durham. :D

But not by the same people. :p:D

actually, in New England, “tonic” can be used to simply mean soda. It’s generally an older term though. My grandparents still use it. And jimmies and frappes are a general New England thing, not just Massachusetts as Nanners52674 said. I grew up in New Hampshire, and moved to MA, and I heard them used everywhere. Although, in Rhode Island, a frappe is actually called a “cabinet”

I heart New England.

[quote=EEKappa;1729409]"Harvard, Emory of the North" quote]

This reminds me of my high school history teacher. He always jokingly referred to the community college he went to as "The Harvard of the Midwest".

My Dad has an old sweat shirt from back in the 1960s that reads "Harvard, the Tulane of the North". My Godfather, Harvard '55 Summa cum Laude-Phi Beta Kappa, still tells people he went to Harvard because he couldn't get into LSU! I think he half believes it.

LOL! :D It was weird when my houseparent said it. I just kind of had the deer-in-the-headlights-blinking-slowly look while what she said sank in. Then I laughed. For some reason it was very funny to me. But, I have an odd sense of humor, anyway. :p

Where I grew up in CT, sprinkles/jimmies = "shots"

After 8pm (the time packies closed back in my day), we headed up to the Agawam Spirit Shop in MA from Hartford.

I lived in MA for 10 years, which is where I picked up "tonic" and "bubbler".

Y'all talk funny! ;)

Your son is very smart!

I was raised hearing all about "The Late Unpleasantness", too. ;)