I think the size of the school plays a decision. My parents went to Belmont Abbey in NC (Catholic). The school was already very small and having GLO kinda divided the school (my dad's opinion) While everyone would go to parties, groups would often be mean and cruel about pledges

My Aunt was president of the Sig Ep Sister group (Golden Hearts) She black balled my mom, her sister, and her best friend all because they were dating Sig Eps (My dad and my mom's friends husband). Its not a big deal now, but it really hurt my mom at the time. All the girls in all the little sister organizations treated them differently and were snobby. Then the sister group got mad at my dad because they would not break up with the "black balled" pledges.

That was in the late 70's and things have changed. They have small local groups that are made to be more inclusive. I think they have a few small fraternities that don't have campus housing. I think they have changed the system to fit the size of the campus. Everything happens off campus, except on St Patricks day the school has a big party with beer (Gotta love being Catholic)

I went to Duquesne University, which was mentioned above as having social Greeks (and has had social Greeks since the early 1920s). I live in southcentral PA, and used to work at the national headquarters of a coed honor fraternity. One thing that may be preventing many of those schools from incorporating Greek life is student population size. Where I used to work, we [generally] would not consider starting a chapter at an institution with fewer than 3000 students. While the organizations discussed above are social and leadership-oriented (aside from the professional orgs mentioned at Gergetown), they also must consider the financial side of the organzation and its ability to thrive on a campus. Yes, fraternities too are businesses!

Oh, and many PSU branch campuses are two-year schools, precluding them from approval by many (not all, many!) national charters. However, PSU Harrisburg is now a four-year institution and is seriously contemplating bringing Greek life to that campus.

Xavier University (Cincinnati) considers itself a non-greek campus, but there are NPHC groups.

? How can that not be consider a Non Greek Campus? Are They not members of the greek community?:confused:

Having grown up in the area I can confirm:
Loyola College in Maryland NO

Also the College of Notre Dame of Maryland (that's right- CONDOM) is all women and they don't have any GLOs.

If you read the thread, you will see plenty of examples of the aforementioned.

Do you think they got confused, and protected themselves from GLOs? ;)

Honey, you owe me a new keyboard!

Since I'm sure I wasn't the only one curious: College of Notre Dame of Maryland

To answer the question about the University of San Diego that was posed, oh, 4 years ago, yes, they do have recognized sororities and fraternities, and are Catholic. But, for being a Catholic university, it is quite liberal at times.

There are several Jesuit Schools that a lot of students from my high school attend. University of San Francisco, University of San Diego and Santa Clara University. USF and USD both have active greek sytems, although I don't think either have houses. SCU has a greek system but it isn't recognized by the university.

Edit: Santa Clara even sent letters to parents of new students this year warning against the risk behaviors they claimed the Greek system encouraged.

Yeah, USD Greeks do not have school sponsored housing. The only school in San Diego to have houses is San Diego State.

Btw, I don't know if you meant to include them under the category of Jesuit schools, AOE2APhi, but USD is not a Jesuit school.

Loyola College in Maryland has Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity, but even *that* ran into a lot of resistance from elements of the administration. I can't even imagine getting a recognized national social fraternity or sorority.