Where do the fraternities/sororities on your campus hang out?
 

I went to the library at another university yesterday and it got me thinking. Where do the fraternities/sororities hang out at on each campus? Also, is it just Greeks who are there?

With my school, there is a large open area between the buildings on campus, which is called Quad (I think almost every campus has one of these). Each fraternity/sorority has their "spot." In between classes, all of the Greeks go to their "spot" and socialize. On Fridays, all fraternities/sororities display their letters in their "spot." The majority of the people who are in Quad are Greek.

Is it the same at all other campuses?

In front of the book store. When I was a senior in h.s. and doing the campus tour- we walked passed the book store and everyone was saying hi to my tour guide... I thought it was the friendliest neatest thing!

Also, one part of the library was all greeks and one section of the cafeteria was all greeks.

I just thought how much I hated the cheerleaders/football players in highschool having their own "section" of the cafeteria and there I did it myself in college!

Yeah, in the caf each fraternity/sorority has their "table." As far as having an area in the library, um, nope. I guess we aren't in the library much. We go to a small school, so the library really isn't a big thing.

Nowhere. Everyone pretty much hangs out with everyone else wherever - greek or independent.

At ECU, you'll usually spot most of the Greeks hanging out as an aggregate during the day in front of the book store. They're easy to spot on Wednesdays, which is when most of us wear our letters. Other than that, we hang out practically everywhere amongst our fellow students.

Mr Greeks (How Ironic) which is a lil restaurant , along with Coney Island. The bars Touchdowns, Ricks , or Scorekeepers...but everyone goes to these. And the Diag which is an open area with everyone else.

All of the NPC and IFC Greeks at our school hang out in the Breezeway between two major buildings on-campus. All of the NPHC and Independents like myself hang out in the Quad.

All the Greeks at UNLV hang out either in the student union near the cafe' or in front of the student union where the ampitheater is. Mondays are "wear your letters" day, so its super easy to spot everyone. You can wear your letters whenever, but mondays is the main day! Its soo much fun when I get together with everyone! =)

Everyone (Greeks and GDI's alike) usually hang out on the Mall in between classes. It's full name is the Glen-Terrell Freidnship mall, but we all call it the Mall or the Hill (because it's on the main hill on campus- wait.. all of campus is on a hill!) It's so funny if you get out of a class early, because it looks so different when the mall is empty.. but between classes.. it's the main way thru campus and most everyone has to come onto it.

We used to hang out at the campus pub and mini mall, but that was a long time ago.

We have tables in the cafe that have the different fraternities/sororities flags over them. A lot of the greeks hang out there during the breaks between classes.

Well anymore I don't know but in my day there were a few spots.....obviously the library, especially when we had study tables which pretty much everyone had. But also most of the groups had "their" table in the student center cafeteria, and also the Hub which is a big open area at the student center where people like to hang and study. In my time there was just a Wendy's near the Hub.....a few years back they built a full-scale food court in the Hub with like 7 or 8 restaurants, so Wendy's is gone and now the Hub is smaller but people still seem to go there. In nice weather people hang out in the student center plaza, which is a big open quad with steps and tables and a fountain.

That is so funny that someone posted something about this cuz my school is having some problems! We used to have a University Mall and the Greeks all hung out in one area. The area used to be Greeks ONLY but then some GDIs didnt know any better, so it was just whoever. Well they've closed the UMall, and opened our new building, but they dont want student hanging out in there, even tho it has a huge area that we could hang out. Until the new UMall is rebuilt in 2-3 years, we are supposed to hang out in these double wide trailors....not so much! COB was really hard this semester without a hangout, and the Greeks aren't hanging out and gettin to know each other like we used to. It really sux

we have this place inside our main union where all the student organiztion has an office or "cube". there is a sitting area where all the greeks go between classes. no one really has a "spot", we just mix and mingle in "the cubes". its nice because not to far of a walk from the food court and there are a punch of plush couches near by to snooze on.

hang in there Chica.

We hang out in the main lecture hall building where most of the large (200-300) people lectures are held. Its also the largest and central academic building on campus. Most all the fraternities and sororities have benches that they have taken over as their own. Back in the day their used to be tables (the long foldign kind) in front of each bench, but the univ did away withthose. We go gank one every day, and there are usually ones to be found.

Cool part is that our area is about 20 steps from the outside quad (where you can find the smokers) and if its nice we'll hang out inthe quad, but mostly its the table.

In 97 they opened the new student center..in GUAM. They expected us to hang out in there, but it was way away from the academic buildings and no one ever went over there. shame...Cause its real nice. We tried hanging out over there for a few months, it just felt unnatural. So back to the HSS (Humanaties/Social Science Building) for us. the admin didnt like that one bit. They began taking our tables and benches outta the building, and we begana 2 year battle of wills, which we won. We let the university know how important the "tables" (our catch all term for the benches and area) were to us and basically, were good kids, cause them no trouble, and we would win the table war. They continue to age, and change jobs, carrears, etc while the average age ouf our groups remains 19. We told them they would tire of it LONG before we would. ya know what ? They gave up after about 3 semesters. So its all on. Now they wont let us reserve a table or space, but the benches are still there, and everyone still has their area.

You are in for a battle, but I am glad we stuck to our guns, as it is a very important tradition for us.

Question? Does your campus newspaper lampoon yall for your "hang out area?" Our does. its BS

At the University of Michigan-Flint all of the Greeks and many of our close friends hang out on the 3rd floor of the University Center. The area where we usually sit at is half way between the Office of Student Life and the Grill. We've had some cheap shots taken at us from students who write into the newspaper about how we all sit together. I think that they are just jealous. We don't care, they can say whatever they want. We have a pretty tight Greek system and all of us hang out together.

Ok, when on campus during the day, there's the Student Union. There are places to get food there (like D'Angelo's, Burger King, a soup place, bagel place, etc.), and all the Greeks generally sit in the same section. It's funny, you can find the Kappa Sig section, the Chi Phi section, the TEP section, etc. A lot of guys, when rushing, comment on the fact that they "always see you guys in the Union by the convenience store."

As far as at night - there are a couple of bars that are big Greek hangouts. A couple aren't so hard on IDs, so many of the Greeks go there on Wed.-Sat. nights.

Collin

There isn't really any place on campus at Eastern Mich where people hang out. But, at night it's this Coney place called Gianni's b/c it's right around Normal, which is our greek row and right down the street fromthe old LXA and Sig Tau houses. It's 24hr, so that's cool, or we are at Theo's on monday nights. That's our bar night!

At UMass, Greeks go back to their houses during the day. Independents hang out either near their department's building (ala the English major hippies, who sit in front of Bartlett Hall smoking ten thousand cigarettes and talking about....I can't imagine what, I'm in a real major) or in their residential area, hanging out in the Horseshoe or the Quad or the Bowl or wherever. Though I must say the weather is rarely cooperative with standing outdoors- the whole campus is one big wind tunnel during the winter.

Aww, one of my sisters is an English major. She is super awesome and one of the sisters I am closest to. Don't hate. ;)

Besides frat parties and various downtown clubs, the Greek hangout for UF is definitely the Swamp. It's weird, b/c it's right on University Avenue where everyone hangs out on the front lawn within the white picket fence, and it's just a big party (cops driving by every five minutes to check on us.) It's a huge Greek fest. Every guy is someone you've seen at a party and every girl is someone who rushed you. When my non-Greek friends make the once-in-blue-moon trip over there, I wonder what they're thinking...they're too anti-Greek to enjoy themselves! :D

When I was in school, we'd always meet up at Locos for a beer or two in between classes. Locos was located in the Student Union, which had other places to eat/study, so we were always bumping into sisters there. :D

With such a large campus as UofT I can't really say there is one spot. However after Monday night meetings every house tends to show-up at a local pub call The Madison Avenue Pub. The basement is 99% greek and the staff brings out complimentary platters of wings and pizza every so often. I think more business gets handled here than in meetings :)