Brother/Sister Frats/Sororities
 

Just wondering if anyone knows what Pi Beta Phi's brother frat is. Here it's Pi Kappa Alpha, but I'm not sure if thats just at my school.

At the school that I went to our brother fraternity was Kappa Delta Xi. Our sorority and their fraternity are the only two locals on our campus...we were founded a year apart, that is why we are so close.

Pi Phi at my university had no brother frat. We have always been told that having any affliation with a male greek organization is not allowed, because we were created for the purpose of being an all female organization. That is why we do not have arrowmen either.

I have heard that Delta Zeta and Tau Kappa Epsilon are brother/sister organizations. I don't know any TKEs since we didn't have a chapter at our school, so I don't know for sure. Anybody out there ever heard this?

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~@~Tracy~@~
Proud to be Delta-Z :-)

Alpha Xi Delta's brother fraternity is Sigma Nu because some of the Sig Nu brothers at Lombard College played a key role in helping our founders to establish our fraternity.

At my college, we dont have a certain frat that is for each and every sorority. We mix it up. Everytime that a sorority has a chance to meet a new frat, we do. Like we have an event in the spring called Spring Fling and did it with AGR, and now for homecoming we are going to do it with AEPi.

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I think it's just a local thing. During pledgeship we were told that the Beta Theta Pi's were our brother frat.

Pi Phi Love and Mine,
Erin

at penn state, SAE's are pi phi's brother fraternity. they do a lot together, THON, Parent's Weekend, Formal Bid, and even Homecoming this year.

To the girl that asked about DZ and TKE being brother/sister... at my school they aren't at least, I know that.
My sisters (Sigma Delta Tau) are really good friends with a lot of the Delta Tau Delta guys (they rock), but we're not officially brother/sister.

Killarney Rose, I was told TKE and DZ are national brother/sister organisations. Some campuses there are , some are not. On the national level I was told they are...

DZ's are a great group of girls, my GF is a DZ.

At PSU Kansas, there are none! LXA does different charity things and asks the different Soroitys to be part of it!
It is simple, why tie yourselves to just one when you can meet more people. If all I saw when we had runouts were the same people, what fun would that be! The idea is we are Social Organizations, So in The Words of Animal House, Lets Socalize!!!!!!!!

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Tom Earp LX Z#1
Pittsburg State U. (Kansas)

Delta Zeta does not have an official brother fraternity. The closest thing to even considering that is the fact that our grand patron was a Phi Delta Theta. Even so, still no brother...sometimes campuses do that stuff on their own. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/wink.gif

I have heard that Chi-O's brother fraternity was Kappa Sigma, since a Kappa Sig brother was the founder of Chi-O. For the most part- isn't having brother/ sister relations in today's time- is not allowed.

My sorority doesn't have a brother fraternity. I don't think any sororities on my campus do(maybe that is because there are 5 sororities and 10 fraternities). I also had never heard of getting a big brother when you join a sorority, besides getting a big sis. What's that all about? I have learned so much by joining greek chat.

I don't think we have a national brother fraternity either, but on my campus, Pi Phi's are generally split into 4 groups...Sigma Chi, Pike, SAE, and Delta Sig groupies. EX and Pi Phi do a lot of events, philathropies, pledge activities together. But I think it does vary from chapter to chapter.

Delta Gamma's brother Fraternity is Phi Delta Theta. One of their members helped to establish us. Go George Banta!

At My school, ever since pledgeship, we were told that our Brother fraternity is SigEp... Our PledgeDad was the Recuitment chair for them.I dont think that nationaly any sorority is affiliated with a fraternity. It goes against Panhellenic Policy.

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~*Theta Gal*~

Someome said that DZ and TKE are brother/sister fraternity/sorority. They are definetly not on my campus. We usually hang out with whatever fraternity our boyfriends are in. When our last president was dating a Delta Sigma Phi, they were our house boys and sort of our brother fraternity. But there is no offical one. That would have to vary on the campus.

my fraternity has a close relationship with Alpha Epsilon Phi Sorority because back in '85-'87, the sorority was formed from the little sister organization who was affiliated with us.

Delta Chi is my chapter's brother frat. All it means is that we happen to have 1 or 2 more socials with them than the other frats. It happened jus cuz they are the oldest frat on campus and we're the oldest sorority(we did start out as Chi Delfia's, a lil sis org to them, but they don't even like to mention that since it is no longer acceptable).

Kappa Delta does not nationally recognize a brother fraternity, but if we would have one it would probably be SAE. A member of their fraternity helped our founders with ritual.

On our campus, we consider Delta Tau Delta our brother fraternity. They're the best. :D

ZTA does not have a brother fraternity. We were founded on our own principles.

TKE doesn't have a sister sorority as far as I know but I know many differnt sorority women have helped TKE out in many ways.

The brothers to my Sorority are definitely the men of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity. Of course I don't think every1 knows that Zeta Phi Beta and Phi Beta Sigma are the only true constitutionally bound brother/sister greek orgs. I'm happy to be a part of the Blue and White Family. Zeta Phi Beta Sigma luv. Much luv to all my sorors, and frats out there. Peace and Blessings to every1 else on here. 1

Imperial1

I don't think any of the four founded at my school (Kappa Delta, Sigma Sigma Sigma, Zeta Tau Alpha, and Alpha Sigma Alpha) have official, nationally recognized brother fraternities. Maybe this is because it was still an all-women school at the time each of these were founded... but then again, an all-male college is just down the road...

Sounds like this is a campus thing...
 

It sounds like this differs from campus to campus. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated recognizes Alpha Phi Alpha as our brother Fraternity. This is not official or constitutional, just widely known. There are no Alphas on our campus but we still consider them our brothers. I have been told that some chapters of Alpha Kappa Alpha consider Kappa Alpha Psi as their brother organization, but this is not the case where I am from. This is a great advantage to being in a National/International organization because we don't have to just depend on the Greeks on our own campus. Plus, we are in a big city (NYC) so we are never short of Greeks. On my own campus, a local Frat claims another local Sorority as brother/sister. There is even another local sorority that they both claim as their COUSIN Sorority. Is this common or is this only something that exists on my campus???:rolleyes:

Internationally, Alpha Phi's brother Fraternity is Delta Upsilon. Both organizations had the same colors (blue and gold) until we changed ours to silver and bordeaux!

Here at SFSU, we don't have DU on our campus, so we mainly hang out with Phi Kappa Tau and Pi Kappa Phi.

I also heard that Pi Kappa Phi's sister sorority is Phi Sigma Sigma. Is that an official affiliation?

Are any of these official at this date? I know alot of the fraternity/sororities used to have bro/sis conections but nothing official these days.

Historically, Alpha Phi Omega is Gamma Sigma Sigma's brother fraternity.

ibcrankieDG,
Delta Gamma owes a great deal to George Banta as he was the only male initiate trusted with Delta Gamma's secrets and he was empowered to form chapters in northern institutions of good standing.

However, I have to emphasize that Phi Delta Theta, (great guys that they are) are officially NOT our brother fraternity.

None of these are official connections. You can not have a brother fraternity or sister sorority without giving up your right to be a single-sex organization. GLO's have special charters that allow them to "discriminate" against members of the opposite sex, and an official connection would endanger that.

pledge dads/big brothers
 

This tradition varies widely from campus to campus, and is usually done unofficially, as many National GLO's do not allow it.

When I took a pledge kid, I asked a guy to be my pledge husband. If I had a boyfriend in a house, I would have asked him, but I did not at the time, so I asked a close male friend. Some people ask GDI's, but I would certainly prefer a man in a house.

My pledge husband obviously becomes my kid's pledge dad. He buys her something with his letters on it, and takes her out on "pledge dad night."

He is then just expected to look out for her, in a way. For example, if she needed a date to one of our functions, she could call him and he would set her up. When he sees her at the bar, he buys her a drink.

I have pledge sons in three different houses, and including the fathers of my own kids, I have four different husbands.

It is just pretty cool for the pledge kid because she gets to have a connection with a fraternity on campus.

At my school we switch with different fraternities every semester. My big brothers are in Sig Tau and my little brothers are in Phi Kappa tau and everyone claims that SAE is our brother frat so who know.

At Mizzou we change it every semester. Second semester the guys serenade the girls to be their partner for homcoming the next year, and then first semester the girls serenade the guys to be their partner for greek week second semester. Who ever is being serenaded votes for which house they liked the best. That way we all get mixed up and get to meet a lot of other people. However, most houses here have a special bond with their neighbors. My best friend is a Chi O at another school and more than half of their candlelighting ceremonies are for Theta Xi's, or Lambda Chi's, and those two houses are on either side of them. When our house gets finished (we're a new chapter) we'll be next door to Sig Ep and most of their guys that I've met are already very neighborly! ;)

At the University of Washington its Pi Kaps as well

You girls should try a Theta Xi, we eat the whole Pi!

I am in a multicultural sorority on our campus and we do not have an official brother fraternity. We have a multicultural fraternity also on campus who is like a brother to us. It would be nice to have a nationally recognized official brother though. :D

Alpha Xi Delta's official brother fraternity is Sigma Nu because they helped our founders to organize and create our sorority, but we don't have SN's on my campus. My chapter is very close to the Sig Eps here and many of my sisters have married Sig Eps. The past six sweethearts in a row have been Xis, and many more before that. Last year half of my sorority was dating half of their fraternity. We also always had a lot of fun with them when we were allowed to mix in their house, so there's a lot of friendships between us too. We're both the biggest and most popular organizations on our campus; it's funny because on Bid Day we find out that many of our new girls have boyfriends who are rushing Sig Ep too! We've had a close bond with them throughout the year that I hope continues, but we also do mix and have friends in other fraternities. We aren't necessarily exclusive to just hanging out with the Sig Eps.

D Phi E and TEP used to have convention together, but that stopped a few years ago.

Why did you have convention together? And why did it stop?

Theta Chi and Sigma Kappa are suposedly tight nationaly. I don't know though. We've never had a mixer with them. Mostly cuz we don't have a house. A few of them said they wanted to though.