Ivy League Schools Chapters
 

Question: Which GLO has (or used to have) chapters in ALL Ivy League Schools? Are we (Theta Delta Chi) the only one?

Cornell University (Beta Charge)
Yale University (Epsilon Deuteron Charge)
Harvard University (Iota Charge)
Dartmouth College (Omicron Deuteron Charge)
University of Pennsylvania (Phi Deuteron Charge)
Columbia University (Rho Deuteron Charge)
Princeton University (Tau Charge)
Brown University (Zeta Charge)

Some went inactive, but I think it is cool to have chapters in these prestigious institutions in one point of time! :cool:

Does/did your GLO have chapters in ALL Ivy League Schools?

Beta Theta Pi has 'em all, thus making Theta Delta Chi not the only one.

Dartmouth (Alpha Omega)
Cornell (Beta Delta)
Columbia (Alpha Alpha)
Harvard (Eta)
Princeton (Theta Epsilon)
Penn (Phi)
Brown (Kappa)
Yale (Phi Chi)

Wow! We have had chapters at:

Barnard (Columbia) - inactive
University of Pennsylvania - inactive
Dartmouth - inactive
Cornell University - active :D

Cool, are they all active?

As an ivy greek, I wonder what is your perception of greek life at the ivys? I always wonder what people at other schools think, have heard, etc...

italianaxo - I think it depends on the school, of course. Penn and Cornell are both known for having fairly active Greek systems, as is Dartmouth -- but I think most people associate Dartmouth with the "Animal House" stereotype, since it was based on a Dartmouth fraternity. Then, on the other hand, Princeton and Harvard don't even recognize Greek life (does Yale? I can never remember) on their campuses, so it's a completely different conception of what Greek life is like there.

Tri Delta has active chapters at:

Penn (Psi)
Cornell (Alpha Beta)
Dartmouth (Gamma Gamma)
Princeton (Gamma Omicron)

To the best of my knowledge, we've never had a chapter at the other Ivies.

Harvard has no recognized fraternity Greek Life. They just opened to expansion for sororities though.

Yale on the other hand has both.

Our Epsilon chapter is at Cornell. I think that's the only Ivy League school with an AOII chapter.

Christin

I have had friends at Barnard and Columbia. I never heard anything about the greek scene there though. I have visited Penn and Cornell. I attended meetings and parties and met quite a few fraternity men and sorority women. They seemed nice and down to earth. I enjoyed their parties. :cool:

Two of my neighbors attended Penn and Cornell. Unfortunately, neither received a bid when they rushed. I'm not sure why because they are really outstanding people.

I don't know anything about greeklife at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, or Brown. I have read that Dartmouth has been having a very difficult time with the administration's lack of support of greeklife.

Actually, sororities are not recognized at Harvard, either. They DID just open to expansion . . . but it was the Panhellenic Association that invited them to come colonize, not the school.

The reason I was curious about Yale is that none of the fraternities or sororities are listed on the "student organization" website, nor do they have a "Greek life" section on their website as far as I can find.

We had chapters at more Ivy League schools - but Cornell is the only one still active. . .

Barnard (Columbia) - Alpha
Penn - Psi
Brown University - Beta (interesting story)

Hanging head...I never realized that Barnard/Columbia was Ivy League...

Besides the fact that our Beta chapter was not the 2nd chapter installed into Alpha Omicron Pi? Now, where's my history book? :)

Christin

Ivy League Chapters
 

DU has had chapters at 7 out of the 8 Ivy League Schools, here is the breakdown:


Brown 1868-1967, formed from local Gamma Nu Society founded 1860, went local as Kappa Delta Upsilon 1967-1986.KDU reinstalled as a DU chapter in 1986 went local again 1992 in a dispute over initiation fees/ chapter dues. KDU was suspended by the Brown Administration in 1997 due to a suspicious fire in the chapter house, I do not know if the chapter remains off campus.

Cornell 1869-2002 chapter suspended due to risk management problems, the imposing chapter house is still owned by Alumni Association. chapter revival very likely.

Princeton 1870-1871, chapter killed by anti-fratenity laws, I'm not sure why DU didn't try to revive chapter in 1980's when Greeks came back to Princeton.

Harvard 1880-1942, chapter died asa result of formation of DU Club formed mid 1920's, which sapped chapters strength, as a Harvard Final Club (local?). The chapter was revived in 1999 and is currently active.

Columbia 1885-1964. 60's casualty, some interest in reviving the chapter.

Penn 1888-1972, hippies killed this chapter as well , chapter revived 1980-1986, second revival 1990, chapter is currently active.

Dartmouth 1926-1966, chapter founded from Epsilon Kappa Phi, founded in 1920. Chapter went local in 1966 as Foley House(named after a very active alum) chapter basically stopped being a fraternity about 1971 and became more of a co-op.There is still a Foley House on the Dartmouth Campus but it is not part of IFC, the school website states that Foley House is now an outdoor/adventure type club.

Yale : Never has had an active DU chapter.

Alpha Sigma Phi has had chapters at most of, but not all Ivy League universities:

Yale (Alpha - 1845) -- active
Harvard (Beta - 1850) -- inactive
Princeton (no chapter established)
University of Pennsylvania (Omicron - 1914) -- inactive
Columbia (Lambda - 1910) -- inactive
Dartmouth (Alpha Eta -1928) -- inactive
Cornell (Iota - 1909) -- active
Brown (no chapter established)

Actually most of them are inactive, however Cornell, Penn, Yale, and Princeton are all active still. In fact Kyle from the Real World Chicago was a two term chapter president from the chapter at Princeton.

Sigma Phi Epsilon's ivy league chapters:

Cornell - NY Beta
Columbia - NY Phi
Dartmouth - NH Alpha
UPenn - PA Delta
Yale - Yale University SEC (Colony)

Betarulz forgot to mention our Alpha Alpha colony at Columbia University which started this spring with 33 founding fathers, including many varsity athletes and campus leaders. If Dartmouth wasn't against letting fraternities back on campus we would have been back there years ago as it is the largest (in terms of roll) of our northeast chapters. Even though they have been gone for 9 years, they STILL own their chapter house. A sorority lives there now I think

Kappa Alpha Theta has had chapters at all the Ivy League schools and all but one is still active.

Cornell University -- Iota chapter
Yale University -- Epsilon Tau chapter
Harvard University -- Zeta Xi chapter
Dartmouth College -- Epsilon Kappa chapter -- closed
University of Pennsylvania -- Beta Eta chapter
Columbia University -- Epsilon Upsilon chapter
Princeton University -- Epsilon Mu chapter
Brown University -- Alpha Epsilon chapter

Thetas are smart! :D

Greekgrrl

Greek Life at Brown.
 

I would suspect that AKA and APhiA have chapters at all Ivy League schools. In fact, the Alphas' Alpha Chapter was at Cornell. The process for colonising a NPHC group on campus is completely different from NPC--for example, the Harvard chapter of AKA is city-wide (MIT and Wellesley).

Beta no longer has a chapter at Brown. I have seen pictures of the house--it was beautiful, but torn down for a parking lot. During the 1950s, the administration was hard on the fraternities to get rid of their discrimination clauses, and Beta may have been a casualty of that. Also, there were events on campus during the 1940s to rival "Animal House". Pledges died, rival fraternities engaged in ice-pick fights, etc. In fact, the University built a large quadrangle to bring the houses on campus.

Beta Chapter of AOPi was at Pembroke College (the coordinate women's college of Brown). The administration of the college banned sororities before WWI because they were deemed anti-intellectual and elitist. Enough clubs existed until the women's college merged with the University in 1969 to duplicate the function of sorority life. Theta was also at Pembroke before that, but did not recolonize until the mid 1980s; the first two sororities at Brown were Alpha Chi Omega and Alpha Kappa Alpha.

KDU/DU is currently inactive.

2003...Greek Life is pretty interesting here. I'm in a sorority, and it's not the center of my life; but I know plenty of people who socialize totally within certain groups. It's as big or negligible as you want it to be. The fraternities have parties, but so does everyone else. We're all pretty community service-minded; so being in a Greek group doesn't make you a major player in philanthropy here. Our most famous alums--Raymond Hood, JFK Jr, Ted Turner, Chris Berman--were all fraternity men.


Today we have:
Alpha Chi Omega
Kappa Alpha Theta
Alpha Kappa Alpha
Delta Sigma Theta

Sigma Chi
Phi Kappa Psi
Alpha Epsilon Pi
Theta Delta Chi
Alpha Delta Phi (co-ed)
Zeta Delta Xi (local co-ed)
Delta Phi
Delta Tau (local)
Alpha Phi Alpha
Omega Psi Phi

Re: Greek Life at Brown.
 

:D Raymond Hood, we have somewhat ritual for him. FYI, he was the architect for modern skyscraper: he designed the Chicago Tribune, Chicago and Rockefeller Center, NYC. Everytime we pass by those buildings, we just whisper "a Theta Delt's building".

By the way, how big is the population of Brown's greek system? I tried to access our Zeta Charge, but they don't have a working site.

What about other good schools in other parts of the country? Like Northwestern, Duke, Stanford, the University of Chicago? Or maybe smaller schools like Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Wesylean? What are their greek systems like?
-M

Williams and Amherst eliminated their fraternities in the 70's. Beta had very large chapters at both schools. very sad state of affairs. they may have some underground stuff

I have a sister at Amherst and they have locals, but I have not heard that any of them are underground chapters of Beta. The two she talks about are the fraternity all of the football players belong to and the co-ed fraternity (Psi U, I believe).

She is an athlete and it seems that the sports teams function as fraternities and sororities for social purposes. They have formals, party together and live together.

Phi Sigma Kappa is at Cornell and UPenn.

A good friend of mine went to Swarthmore. Greek Life is really small there. We used to have a chapter at Swat, but alas...

Northwestern and Duke both have thriving Greek systems, I believe. Stanford's is a bit smaller but also strong. The University of Chicago's is not recognized by the university (I think), and is fairly small.

I don't know about the other schools, but would imagine most of them have pretty small Greek systems if they have them at all. Small liberal arts schools (that are not in the South) tend to be rather anti-Greek, from my experience.

Amherst has a weird Greek system. We had our Mu Deuteron Charge there active until the stupid school council decided that they wanted to ban Greek System. But also I happen to know which fraternities go underground at Amherst College. ;)

As for Stanford, I've heard that they used to have a strong Greek System, back in 1980s. Problem nowadays, once your chapter get kicked off campus, they pretty much done at Stanford.
Our Eta Deuteron Charge is one of the biggest "elite" house at Stanford, along with three other houses (Kappa Sigma, Sigma Chi and SAE)

We still have our Delta Triton Charge active at Northwestern. Not too strong Greek System, I'm assuming by looking at the IFC chapters.

Anybody knows anything from Bowdoin College? Our council decided to shut down our Eta Charge after they were forced to be co-ed fraternity, back in early 1990s. Big loss ...
Same with Epsilon Charge at William and Mary, we chosed to shut down our Charge because of the Greek System policy changes.
:(

KKG and the Ivy League
 

Kappa Kappa Gamma is proud of its Ivy League Chapters--all but Columbia and Brown!

Cornell University--Psi Chapter

Yale University--Zeta Xi Chapter

Harvard University--new colony (will be the Eta Theta Chapter)

Dartmouth College--Epsilon Chi Chapter

University of Pennsylvania--Beta Alpha Chapter(currently silent)

Princeton University--Zeta Phi Chapter

Re: Re: Greek Life at Brown.
 

I'm an architecture major, so I know all about Raymond Hood. :) There is a picture in our archives of him and the rest of the Thete brothers in their house.

Greek Life here is pretty smallish...not major, but not so ignored. Like I said, Greeks here are pretty segregated in one area of campus, so it looks like it's much bigger than it really is. Also, Greeks do not dominate community service or student government like they do at other schools. Basically, it's another activity like being in Amnesty International. No real biggie.

The Thete chapter here is primarily the football team/econ majors. Most chapters here don't have active websites.

That would be AXD! Dartmouth is doing their best to get rid of single-sex GLOs or make them go coed (nothing against coed Greeks myself, but why not allow students to make that choice for themselves?).

We also have a chapter at Penn State. I don't know about inactive chapters at other Ivies.

That's not good, as we might want to kill our Omicron Deuteron Charge if Dartmouth goes co-ed. This happened before at Bowdoin College. That sucks.

And I think UPenn is THE Ivy League school instead of Penn State. ;)

Yay for Ivy League Greeks!!!
 

Hi everyone,

Greek life here at Cornell is huge!!!! We currently have 13 NPC sororities, around 38 IFC houses and 14 MGLC chapters.

for more info on any of these, go to:

http://www.dos.cornell.edu/dos/fsa/

~Lacey

University of Chicago
-Sororities:
Delta Gamma
Alpha Omicron Pi
Kappa Alpha Theta

-Fraternities
Alpha Epsilon Pi
Alpha Delta Phi
Phi Gamma Delta
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Psi Upsilon
Delta Upsilon
Pi Kappa Alpha
Lambda Phi Epsilon
Phi Delta Theta
Delta Kappa Epsilon

The sororities range from 40-60 girls. Only 5 of the fraternities are housed and they average at about 25 brothers per house I would estimate with FIJI being the largest by far (over 40). The unhoused fraternities are smaller and average between 15-20 guys.

The school's Greek Sing was the first in the nation I believe. Last year they started Greek Week again. Panhell is usually well organized. Alumni IFC was formed last summer and undergrad IFC is being currently formed. The school's recognition of greeks is not hammered out. Many of the fraternities have existed before the school has and one is even rumoured to rent a building to our university. The school recognizes something called Greek Council and is trying to get all fraternities/sororities to sign some sort of contract with them to get even further recognition (basically use of copy machines and crap nobody needs) with no GLO signing up.

-Rudey

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Williams eliminated GLOs in the late 60s or 70s?

Ivy Chapters
 

DU has had chapters at many schools mentioned.

Williams (our founding chapter) 1834-1862. 1883-1965 chapter became Garfield House when Fraternities banned, Williams Administration is dead set against allowing Greeks back on, the administration also claims students don't want Greek life, I'd like to see an indepedent survey done, I'd bet 20-30 % of students would join. I'm sure DU would devote resources to a revival if allowed.

Amherst 1847-1862, 1870-1970,chapter went local as Delta Upsilon Delta until Amherst forced Fraternities off campus in 1984, I don' think DUD stayed on, off campus ,as did X Psi, PSI U etc.

Wesleyan 1850-1852, revived 1919 from Omega Phi local, withdrew in 1953 over dispute about initiating an African American, local Delta Sigma 1953-1967, joined KA (northern branch) 1967-1980 went local as Omega Kappa Alpha 1908-? now inactive?.

Middlebury 1856-1991 closed when school made chapters coed, may still exist as local off campus.

Colby 1858-1861, 1878-1984 school banned fraternity membership under pain of expulsion, chapter closed.

Bowdoin 1859-1861, 1892-1952 left DU due to dispute over initiating an afro american. Existed as Delta Sigma local until 1998 when administration closed fraternities.

Swarthmore 1891- present.

Northwestern 1880 -present

Colgate 1865-present

Chicago 1901-present

Stanford 1896-1987 closed due to hazing & raising hell, revival attepted 1994-1996, possible revival being looked at.

I don't think students at these colleges are as anti greek as the Prof's & administration. The tide will switch back, look at Princeton and Harvard at the current time. The good GLO's will prosper, old line organizations DU, Zeta Psi, ADPHI, etc better not assume a revival in Greek interest on these campi will automatically result in revival of their oldest chapters just because of their historic strenghth. Sig Ep is a good example of a newer GLO increasing market share and quality.

AEPhi has, or has had, chapters at the following schools:

Ivy League:
Barnard (Columbia) - Alpha
Columbia Univ. Teachers College - Gamma (does this count?)
UPenn - Theta
Cornell - Kappa
Yale - Beta Delta

Ivy+:
MIT - Beta Epsilon :D
Northwestern - Omicron
Duke - Alpha Epsilon
Carnegie Mellon - Alpha Nu
hmmm... who else would be considered Ivy+...

Munchkin03 - AKA actually has an MIT chapter that is recognized by the school. I believe it predated all the NPC sororities.

Williams eliminated their greeks in the 60s and Amherst did so in the 80s. Amherst does have an underground system with three houses. Williams has a Nazi-like attitude to greeks. They will persecute and expell.

Which they share with Harvard, which has not recognized sororities, and Wellesley, which does not have a Greek system. So, it is Cambridge/Wellesley-wide. :)

On a side note, I don't see Brown expanding its Greek system at all.

Harvard does not recognize sororities. The greek system there is growing in spite of Harvard's stubborn policies.

Alpha Phi only has chapters at Cornell (Delta) and UPenn (Eta Iota) dang...we better going :)