To reiterate:

The ONLY official, constitutionally bound brother/sister orgs are Zeta Phi Beta & Phi Beta Sigma. Anything else would jeopardize single-sex status. Any other "connections", however strong, are campus based only.

There are Greeks that have had a hand in founding other orgs, but that doesn't mean that their entire fraternity is your brother fraternity.

Hey I am a Phi Mu too and I also heard this. For the exact same reasons too. We have both of those chapters on our campus, but we've never done anything with the KA's. We were supposed to have our semi-formal this fall with ADPi since they're our sister sorority (apparently) but stuff didn't work out with the social chair.

I dunno though whether any of this is true or not, anyone know if there is? :confused:

Unofficial
 

at Wash U, Pi Phi is paired with Phi Delt every year for homecoming, and with Theta Xi every year for the Thurtene carnival (largest student run carnival in the US)

I couldn't say if any of these were official or not, but on my campus:

AEPhi is always paired with AEPi
DG is paired with Sig Nu
Alpha Phi is paired with Sig Ep

I heard that Chi O is nationally paired with Kappa Sig, but since Chi O is new on our campus this year, and Kappa Sig is paired with Kappa Kappa Gamma, I thikn they are goign to be paired with Beta Theta Pi. Of course everyone has mixers with all the others


Kappa Kappa Gamma and Pi Phi are sister sororities though, since they were both founded at Monmouth college... we have a Monmouth Duo date party together :)

How would you go about getting a bro frat? My sorority is local and the fraternity on campus thats comming on will be a national-is there an invisible line that can't be crossed? I just wanna know how we could make them our brother frat...we've already like started getting involved with their interest group and helping them out, inviting them to cookouts and all that good stuf. We want some bro's! :D How does it work????

Q. My sorority is local and the fraternity on campus thats coming on will be a national-is there an invisible line that can't be crossed?

A. No. As 33girl pointed out, connections (brother/sister "relations") are campus based.

Q. How could we make them our brother frat? How does it work?

A. Simple. Just keep doing what you are already doing. You already have a good start.

"...we've already like started getting involved with their interest group and helping them out, inviting them to cookouts and all that good stuff".

On my campus, Pi Kappa Alpha and Alpha Gamma Delta are Brother/Sister Fraternity Sorority because our chapter founders were married.

ATO/AXO national
KE/XO national
PDT/DZ
ZTA/none

Since 1946 Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma have had official brother/sister relations.

I love my TBS sisters!

We don't have any official brothers...but Phi Mu Alpha is unofficially, and is every campus you'll ever see. I love Sinfonians! :)

I thought...
 

That Alpha Phi Omega was the brother organization to Omega Phi Alpha Service sorority, not Gamma Sigma Sigma. However, I know there are more chapters of GSS than OPA so, maybe I am worng. But I swear I read that on the Omega Phi Alpha website.

Also, I honestly thought Alpha Xi Delta was the only NPC sorority to still have a nationally recognized brother fraternity. That's what they tell the girls during rush anyway. I know lots of sororities were founded or helped to be founded by great fraternity men, but that's what I was told at least. AXiD is the only one in the modern era. Not sure about MCGLO or NPHC or locals.

Re: I thought...
 

We've said it before, we'll say it again:

No NPC sorority has a national brother fraternity. Most if not all NPC sororities do not support their chapters adopting a local brother fraternity.

To quote 33girl:

That is like the sweetest thing I have ever heard!

Re: Re: I thought...
 

Definitely! Although we are two totally separate organizations, here on my campus we work very closely together. We consider APO our brother fraternity, have joint service projects together, socials... and when you join you also get a big brother/sister from the other group! I always thought that was a pretty cool bonus. :)

It would make sense that SAE and KD are related somehow... SAE was founded here at the University of Alabama before the Civil War, and KD was the first sorority here in 1904, so they go way back, at least here. They are still close to this day.

I heard that it was an official affiliation back in the day Jess ( Phi Sig and Pi Kapp) similar colors... flower Etc... but we aren't allowed to have this anymore on an "offical" level Phi Sig has a written policy against it. At my school it doesn't really matter there's only three frats (one is considerably smaller than the others) and three sororities so we all get a chance to hang out together anyway....