What about PIKES?
 

OK, I've been checking out these boards for a while now and I think I'm the only PIKE on here. SO, I want to know what everyone out there thinks of Pi Kappa Alpha -- in general or on your campus.

At Auburn and UGa I think they're big partiers.

At ISU - top in grades, won most events, very very strong alumni support, a classy group of guys!

Here at Rose, the Pikes are pretty active around campus, have pretty good grades, win a lot of competitions, but not a lot of people seem to like them. I have quite a few friends that are Pikes, but as a whole, the chapter seems to have an attitude that they are above everyone. Also, I have heard that quite a few guys wished they hadn't joined after they did, but went ahead and initiated anyway. I think they're the biggest fraternity on campus, but I think they gave out over 100 bids this year, when most everyone else gave out around 50... Make your own conclusions from that.

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Steve Corbin
Lambda Chi Alpha
Theta Kappa Chapter
Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech.

Well im sure all PIKE's aren't like this but the ones in Florida always start fights with their own brothers or with other people at bars.They got the boot from UF last year cause a brother raped a girl and a couple other brothers at the same party made a pledge drink a bottle of captn morgans and kicked him down the stairs when he was drunk.
They have a bad rep at every florida chapter but i did meet some cool pike's at mardi gras last year from Texas.

Pikes at my school(GMU) are the athletes, are big on numbers, known for their parties, hung out often with Chi Omega and some with AOII. I knew a few nice Pikes, but I thought many were snobbish. Of course you might say that about many chapters though on my campus. When I rushed them I didnt get a good feeling about them and they didnt choose me. So, I was thankful of that and found out the next semester when I rushed what was me. Beta. Actually I knew a cop on my campus that was pretty cool that was a Pike Alum from JMU. Or at least he claimed to be.

Kevin Mullinix
Beta Theta Pi Alum
Epsilon Mu
George Mason '97

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Steve, how big IS Rose-Hulman? Either it's a lot bigger than I thought it was or y'all have one kickin Greek system. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/wink.gif

There are around 1600 undergrads, and that's including women. There are 8 fraternities, 6 of which are around the same size, average probably 70, one that has about 45, and one that has about 10-15. It used to be about 40% greek, but now I think it's closer to 30%, which still isn't bad!



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Steve Corbin
Lambda Chi Alpha
Theta Kappa Chapter
Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech.

PIKES are definitely one of the top3 at UCSD. Big, diverse chapter and overall good guys. I know someone mentioned the ones at their school were a lil disrespectful of women. While there's a few like that in the chapter here, their mostly extremely respectful. One pledge was even nearly kicked out because of how he handled himself around girls who weren't fully capaple of taking care themselves. He shaped up really fast, and I became so damn proud of those guys!

At my school, PIKE is one of the biggest and best houses on campus. They always seem to get more pledges than any other fraternity! They are GREAT guys and so much fun to mix with!

We do not have PIKES at my campus, however they were considered by our IFC expansion committee during our last round of expansion.

We sent out invitations to about 10 groups we were interestred in asking to campus. Of the 10 we asked, 4 were interested in expansion. They were KA's, Delta Sigma Phi, Pikes, and SAE's.

The delta Sigs were chosen because their expansion proposal rocked, and would really help with greek awarness on campus. We also really liked the Pike's, and considered changing our expansion plan just to include them, i.e., asking on Delta Sigs for this year, and then a year from now, allowing the Pikes to come on. Our lovely Greek Advisor shot that down, because that was not a part of the original expansion plan, even though we could handle two groups in two years, she felt it wasn't fair to change the rules in mid stream http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/rolleyes.gif (even though they are OUR rules), so we were only allowed to have one to expand, the Delta Sigs. If I wanted an overly complicated expansion policy, we'd have asked Panhelenic to be incharge of the process. (Forgive me ladies, but I have NEVER been able to understand most NPC policy.) http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/confused.gif

So no, we wanted Pikes, but are going to have to go through the WHOLE process ALL over again, and it was too exhaustive last year. We'll probably wait a few years. The cool thing is that they are still very interested in our campus, so I am sure they'll be here in a few years.

[This message has been edited by lifesaver (edited December 13, 2000).]

You're not alone. I've been a pike for 2 semesters, and let me tell you Pi Kappa Alpha is the only Fraternity I would ever recommend to anyone. The people who said the Pikes on their campus's weren't all that great, well there are always a few bad apples in the bunch. Pi Kappa Alpha is Comprised of Scholars Leaders Atheletes and Gentleman, and for the most part we stand true to that. Pi Kappa Alpha is the biggest social Fraternity and the most dominant.

PIKE is our brother frat up at UVM. We do a lot of events with them. They have a pretty good reputation here. Lots of them are athletic, and good looking.

Hi, my brother is a FIJI and he has many friends who are Pi Kappa Alphas. They are very cool, and yes they are cute http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/wink.gif They are also very gentlemanly http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif

At ECU, PIKE'S are very rougish and crude, sad to say. They do not represent the ideals of that organization well.

Hey you aren't alone bro. I just started chatting on this forum 2 days ago. I currently go to Slippery Rock PA and was accepted into the bonds last semester. We got our charter in '97 and won greek week ever since. Our chapter up here is the strongest and has the most numbers. 2 of our brothers right now hold regional positions. We are the most athletic and have the best grades.

Phi Phi bro

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PIKES were one of my favorite groups of guys in college. They're cute, sweet and trust me when I say they KNOW how to throw a party! Even now, 3 years out of school, they're still the ones I hang out with the most. They've always been there when I need them! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

Pikes here at Nova have gone underground and refuse to do what they need to get back on campus. They have an insanely hard pledging program but in the end, they have what i believe is the most close brotherhood in that they do everything together. but also, that is mostly do to the fact that they believe that they are superior to everyone. they do pretty well in athletics, but lack the other elements of a true fraternity.

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Villanova University
Delta Tau Delta
Zeta Theta Chapter

They are not on Campus yet due to a year long suspension. Actually they may be back, but I'm not sure, I graduated in December!
What I am sure of is that I don't agree with Pirate00. Pikes are not the most consistent chapter, but I know a few and they are good guys. They may not have been on campus for a year, but they still seem to have their things together compared to the majority of the other chapters.

I disagree strongly with the Sigma Chi from the University of North Florida who said that the Pikes have "a bad rap" in the state of Florida, and I have adressed him directly in another thread. Nationally, the Pikes have the largest average chapter size of any fraternity, and have held that honor for many years. That doesn't necessarily make us good guys but it is one measure of enduring strength. Yes, our chapter was suspended a year at UF, but they are back now and among the leaders. My chapter at FSU was gone for years, but we are back now and are again the largest, with the best grades and the intramural championship. I think we're good guys too. I'd say that if you look at all the fraternity chapters at all the schools in Florida, with the exception of USF the Pikes are among the leaders on every single campus.

That doesn't mean you don't have a bad rap. Your perception of your chapter isn't always the same as everyone elses. For example, 5-10 years ago, my house was the redneck fraternity. Now, we have 2 guys I would consider true rednecks, and maybe half a dozen more that can even stand country music. We're still thought of that way though. One girl told another girl I know, that you can't date Lambda Chi's, they smell like manure... I got a good laugh out of that one! You get the picture?

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Steve Corbin
Lambda Chi Alpha
Theta Kappa Chapter
Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech.

Hi Seminole Pike!

Though I only know 3 Pikes--they are all such awesome guys. Classy, sweet, funny--they are some of my best guy friends (from HS) along with some of the Pi Kapps! They are the ones that will also go out of their way to help me. At my HS, everybody loved them!

[This message has been edited by newbie (edited June 06, 2001).]

Some Pikes are good, some Pikes are bad.
My best friend became pregnant by a Pike and then he ran off. So for this, I'm not too fond of them. This is probably just a fluke though. He is more than likely just a jerk that happened to be a Pike.
The Pikes that I have met from UNA and UAH are great guys. They are very hospitable, kind and look out for the best interest of the people that they come in contact with. Overall, I like the Pikes!

We've all said that a few bad apples can ruin a chapters' reputation. It occurs to me that a few bad chapters can make an entire fraternity look bad as well.

I'm pretty sure that it was at the PIKE chapter at Colorado State where a couple of brothers hung a scarecrow on the back of their Homecoming Float shortly after the Matthew Shepherd murder in Wyoming. The people who found Shepherd, a gay University of Wyoming student, described him as looking like a scarecrow, hanging on a fence beside the road. CSU (Ft. Collins) and Wyoming (Laramie) are close together.

It was the remarkably insensitive work of a very small minority, but the entire chapter paid the price. There was also serious damage to the reputation of the sorority who worked with them on the float.

I can't believe that PIKE is a bad organization everywhere, but maybe it's time for their Nationals to take a close look at some of the chapters. That goes for any other National organization with this many chapters with perceived problems.

It's hard to lose chapters. We've closed a number of our problem ones in the past few years. In the long run, though, I believe it's better to have a smaller fraternity, "Dedicated to Excellence" (which is our goal), than a large organization which is partially out of control.

For whatever it's worth, the Pikes I knew in college were pretty good guys.

DeltAlum

It was the Pikes at Colorado State, who may have gotten a raw deal due to the hysteria. For what it's worth, as you say, the Pikes still maintain a very large and strong chapter at CSU. I disagree that our fraternity "has so many problems". I think that perception is due more to some posts on these boards, and to the fact that the Pikes are very high-profile nationally. Also for your information, the Delts here are very good. They just won the intramural championship for 2001.

Hi 'NolePike,

Thank you for the good news about our Delt chapter down there.

My intent was/is to suggest that ALL organizations take a hard look at their chapters. I don't think I singled out PIKE -- and if it seems that way please know that it was my desire to use that situation as an unfortunate example and not to insinuate that the PIKE national organization is a bad one.

I do believe (to badly paraphrase an old cliche) that it is important to keep sniffing for smoke before a fire breaks out.

We at Delt have been in the unhappy position of having to close some of our oldest, largest and best known chapters because they were becomming a liability to our reputation and good name. In the long run, however, I believe that a smaller group of outstanding men/chapters may be to our benefit.

If you have a moment, e-mail me and I will share some thoughts on the CSU situation which need not be mentioned in this forum.

Fraternally,
DeltAlum

what up fellas! i dont know if anyone is still checking this thread but i just joined this thing two days ago... i'm a brother at the PIKA kappa nu chapter at UOP in california. i just completed my pledge period with a 28 man pledge class, 3 times bigger than any other fraternity pledge class. our house currently boasts 87 active members where the avg. for the other houses on campus lingers at around 40-45. in the last year we have won every competiton we have entered (i.e. intramurals, Dg's anchor splash, greek week), we maintain the highest avg. fraternity GPA on campus, in addition to having the most active social life. we're doing all we can to embody everything the brotherhood stands for. Its good to hear that Pike is thriving all over the nation.
phi phi bros
Rob

PKA on my campus SIUC has a kinda mixed reputation. PKA Nationals came about 2 years ago and cleaned house (pulled lots of pins, gave expectations, etc.) and now they are doing pretty well. I personally have a lot of friends that are pikes here, i get along great with the guys, I think, could be mistaken, but they had the most community service hours last year for fraternities. Also, the parties are a blast.

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Jonez #92
Beta Theta Pi
SIUC