California Greek Systems
 

I'm interested if anyone has input on the following schools and their Greek Systems. I know all of our CA schools are AWESOME, but I really am interested in the following if you have any feedback on the schools/area/Greek Life:

CSU: Bakersfield, San Luis Obispo (Polytech), Pomona (Polytech), Dominguez Hills, Fresno, Hayward, Long Beach, CSU-LA, Northridge, San Marcos, Stanislaus, Humboldt State, San Fran State, San Jose State, Sonoma State, Chapman, Loyola Marymount, Pepperdine, Santa Clara U, Stanford

UC: Davis, Irvine, Riverside, UC-San Diego, Santa Cruz, U of Pacific, U of San Fran, Westmont College

Thanks!

FYI **UCSF is a med school. They may have some honor and professional but that's it.:)

SF State--Anti greek campus.(:o boo!)

Thanks for catching that one! :)

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Officially, there are not the kind of organizations for the Greek systems at those two schools like there is one for SDSU. Such as the IFC, NPC and NPHC could be improved...

That is all I know currently...

Cal Poly Pomona has 4 NPC sororities. House total is 65 members. Quota is usually between 15-19 during formal recruitment. All four houses seem to be doing well right now.

I believe there are around 8-9 NIC Fraternities. When I was on campus two years ago membership ranged from 10-about 60 members each. The sizes of the fraternities seem to fluctuate.

There are also several local sororities and fraternities, asian based and latino/a based.

I am not sure about NPHC fraternities or sororities. I know that there was a flier for Delta Sigma Theta on campus when I was there a couple of months ago.

In my opinion, Cal Poly is not a pro-greek campus. It seems like the greeks are really involved on campus, more so than other organizations. However, a large portion of the campus community does not see the greek organizations in a positive light.

Let me know if there is anything else you would like to know!

Lambda Chi @ Cal Poly SLO was/is awesome. I can chalk up 95% of the fun I had in college to fraternity. I don't know what type of feedback you're looking for, though...

IFC & NPC maintain a Web site, but it is currently down. You can keep trying http://www.cpgreeks.com. My guess is that they forgot to pay the bill to keep it up and running over the summer.

Cal Poly SLO is the same way.

Berkeley - I know you didn't ask about UCB specifically but I figured I'd share anyways. Berkeley has a very, very old greek row (probably the oldest in the state?). Campus reaction is mixed... Greeks are very visible because of their housing but the school seems to like them less and less (more dry-house rules have some into effect, etc...) yet they still cary the school socially.

Irvine - 12 on campus greek houses and another dozen or so without chapter houses. The school is rather anti-greek both admin and student population wise (editorials bashing the greek system and a general dislike by the admin for the "parties" and "negative role of greeks"). However UCI is a commute school so greeks make up much of the social life on the campus and clearly play an important part in the school as I've been told.

Riverside - Houses are rather spread out and from what I hear greek life is growing there. I know there are several big chapters but I've always had the impression that it wasn't a very big system.

Long Beach State - I'm not sure what the housing is like but there is certainly a greek presence on the school. You see plenty of LB greeks around Southern California and they're certainly a fair amount of parties which implies their system is indeed active.

Generally the UC's tend to dislike greeks IMO and accordingly most schools are under 10% Greek with very odd systems. If you read the rush threads or other threats about greek life they tend to show a very different story than UC greeks would tell. At nearly every UC and California state school I have been to I hear the same stories about problems with admin, problems with students who really do not like Greeks and such.

I am originally from that area and I didn't even know they had greek life there. I have friends who went there, still had no idea. I tried to look at the schools greek life website, but it wouldn't come up. Who knows???

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Add San Diego State :)

SDSU= Only SD school with chapter housing, all three main councils are very active on campus (IFC, PHC, USFC (Cultural)). Most of NPHC are metro chapters so not as exclusive to holding events at SDSU besides step shows. Community "understands" greek life, but does not condone it. Campus is becoming more open to us again.

I go to Cal State Hayward, and we have NO greek life. I mean it's fun but there are only 2 sororities and 2 fraternities. There are also all but 1 of the NPHC orgs, but their numbers are pretty low, so I don't see then too ofter, every once in a while I see AKA's with their helluv cute jackets.

Overall our President is a meanie and she doesn't really support greek life so it's at a low right now :(

UOP and Westmont are not actualy UC schools although both are actually located in CA. The other UC schools are Berkeley and UCLA as well as Merced (which will open this fall, I believe?)

I go to UC Santa Cruz, which has an extremely anti-greek atmosphere (which, with the filming of FL2 is becoming more widely well-known) If you would like to see more information about the greek system at UCSC and the lack of acceptance of it, I would recommend my sister wishinhopin(Corina)'s thread "Rush at UCSC" :)

San Fran State has about 30 (I think) GLOs on campus BUT is a small system, the biggest org has AT most 60 people.. the smallest less than 20 the students and admin. are fairly anti greek... but there are some things of interest about our system...

1st is that the local organizations out number the national (IFC, NPC, NPHC Etc) orgs by quite a bit... 3 NPC orgs, 3 NIC frats (1 of which is VERY small) the rest of the afore mentioned 30 orgs are local in nature (I think 1 belongs to the multicultural council)

2nd The system is fairly young... (My chpater, is one of the oldest on campus and was founded in 1981) but this is only because we were kicked off campus in the 60's "damn the man" revolution
:) I could go on, but I don't know if you want that much info or now

I know UCLA's system is old and it is pretty large from friends... but it's not too well received by some... UCLA is such a huge school that even a lot of people don't make up a large percentage of general university's population.


CSU Bakersfield only has 2 NPC sororities... (Phi Sigma Sigma) and Gamma Phi Beta)

Stanislaus only has 2 NPC sororities (Phi Sig and Alpha xi Delta) ... but the school is very supportive of the greeks and greeks are very active on campus and support the only social scene on a commuter campus. we have a transfer from there and she told us about their system

Chapman, I know that they just added a Alpha Gam chapter (our AGD's went down there to help charter it) this year... so they must be growing #'s wise and pretty strong to support expansion... I'm not sure if that's the type of info you need.. and I don't know too much about fraternity life at some of these schools.. but I hope this helped you !!

Honestly I think out of all the schools where I *personally* know people involved in the greek system I'd have to say that USC or Berkely is the strongest system in the state. They are both old, established systems with beautiful houses and chapters that have a good amount of people in them. Although Berkely has been putting some restraints on alcohol and whatever (which, BTW as someone who has attended parties in those lovely houses in the hills there's still PLENTY of alcohol flowing, they just know who's consuming it now becuase of guests lists)... The university still supports greek life by having paid advisors, easy acess to facilities for events and all that good stuff. USC the system seems very united and supported by the university

hope that helped you, sorry I don't know more specifically about fraternities, but I pay more attention to sororities beause I know more about how they work :D

I just like to add that the Zeta Omicron Chapter of Delta SIgma Phi Fraternity has been producing gentlemen at CSUH for over 20 years, and I was able to roomate with one of them at Convention, and umm........we rule!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll second that!

This is great feedback! Keep it coming!

At the Cal Poly schools-- when you say the Greeks are not regarded in a positive light, why is that? Is the admin not supportive of the Greek system?

Has anyone got anything on Greek Life at: Fresno, CSU-LA, Humboldt, San Jose State, Sonoma State, Pepperdine, Santa Clara, UC-Davis, U Of Pacific?

Thanks again!

LOL... hell yea they have!!! That's where I am going tonite to patry with Delta Sig. Who did you room with?

Kenny Louis

He was their pres. last year huh? I saw him earlier today, he's a pretty kewl guy.

Yep, and yes he is.

I'm an Alumna from Humboldt State and believe me when I say the Greek system there is SMALL! This is the breakdown:

SORORITIES:
1 NPC: Delta Phi Epsilon
2 Locals: Rho Chi Upsilon and Phi Delta Psi
1 LGLO/MCGLO: Gamma Alpha Omega

FRATERNITIES:
2 IFC: Chi Phi and Tau Kappa Epsilon

SORORITIES: DPhiE has the most active members, but GAO is the most active on/off campus

FRATERNITIES: TKE's have the most active members, but Chi Phi is the most active on/off campus.

As for UOP, I don't know much about Greek life there other than they've just established the first LGLO's...
Fraternity: Omega Delta Phi
Sorority: Gamma Alpha Omega Petitioning Group

I hope this helps :D

Need to add a couple more we have Sigma Gamma Rho and Kappa Delta Chi

In essence this is what we have


NPC
Phi Sigma Sigma

NIC
Sigma Pi
Lambda Theta Phi - historically latino
Sigma Lambda Beta - historically latino
Phi Iota Alpha - historically latino

NALFO Sororities
Sigma Lambda Gamma
Kappa Delta Chi
Sigma Iota Alpha

Divine Nine
Sigma Gamma Rho
Zeta Phi Beta
Delta Sigma Theta
Phi Beta Sigma
Iota Phi Theta I think is colonizing or just colonized on campus
I think the other NPHC groups may have city wide chapters that have some of our students as members
Kappa Alpha Psi

The City of Carson doesn't allow houses so we don't have any type of greek housing. CSUDH is trying to get a Greek Council started but it's tough The administration is very open to the Greeks though as we do a lot of volunteer work on the campus. Most of the chapters are fairly small less then 20 and some maybe less then 10. We're one of the largest if not the largest at almost 30.

Hope this helps,
Carolyn

Very accurate! I live in the Cal Poly area , like 5 minutes from campus, and i have friends who have gone there and they say cal poly is very anti greek. It is a engr type school and the four houses on campus which are doing good , it is still hard to rush when you school doesnt support greek life like they should. I can even back it up by saying a very good friend of mine is a prof there and she is very active in her alum chapter and she agrees greeks are not overly abundent at cal poly.

Laura

To fill you in on a few more:

CSU Fresno:

The university website is arranged kinda funny. I wasn't going to take the time to arrange each of the groups by NPC, NIC, NPHC, MCGLO etc. :)

The website seems alittle out of date:
http://studentaffairs.csufresno.edu/...interest1.html


ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA
ALPHA PHI ALPHA
ALPHA XI DELTA
CHI DELTA BETA
CHI RHO OMICRON
DELTA GAMMA
DELTA SIGMA PHI
DELTA SIGMA THETA
DELTA UPSILON
DELTA ZETA
EPSILON SIGMA RHO
GAMMA ZETA ALPHA
KAPPA ALPHA PSI
KAPPA ALPHA THETA
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA
KAPPA SIGMA
LAMBDA CHI ALPHA
LAMBDA SIGMA GAMMA
LAMBDA THETA NU
NU ALPHA KAPPA
OMEGA PSI PHI
PHI GAMMA DELTA
PHI LAMBDA RHO
PHI MU
PI KAPPA ALPHA
SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON
SIGMA ALPHA ZETA
SIGMA CHI
SIGMA DELTA ALPHA
SIGMA NU
SIGMA OMEGA PHI
SIGMA PHI EPSILON
THETA CHI
ZETA PHI BETA


CSU Long Beach:

Greek Life has a *really* cool website at:
http://www.csulb.edu/divisions/stude...eek/index.html

NPC:

Alpha Omicron Pi
Alpha Phi
Delta Delta Delta
Delta Gamma
Delta Zeta
Gamma Phi Beta
Sigma Kappa
Sigma Lambda Gamma **

** When I went to CSULB, there were only 7 groups. I have *no* idea what "Sigma Lambda Gamma" is about. It's not an NPC group, yet they're listed under NPC. Maybe it's an interest group?


IFC:

Delta Chi
Kappa Sigma
Phi Kappa Tau
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Sigma Pi
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Theta Chi


NPHC:

Sororities:
Alpha Kappa Alpha
Delta Sigma Theta
Sigma Gamma Rho
Zeta Phi Beta

Fraternities:
Alpha Phi Alpha
Iota Phi Theta
Kappa Alpha Psi
Omega Psi Phi
Phi Beta Sigma


MCGLO:

Chi Delta Theta
Delta Lambda Phi
Delta Sigma Chi
Kappa Psi Epsilon
Lambda Theta Alpha
Lambda Theta Phi
Sigma Phi Omega
Sigma Lambda Beta
Zeta Epsilon Tau
Zeta Phi Rho


CSU San Marcos:

A new-ish university. Only has a few GLOs.

http://www.csusm.edu/srl/fslife/greek%20life.htm

NPC:

Alpha Chi Omega
Alpha Xi Delta

IFC:

Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Tau Kappa Epsilon

Laura,

What subject area is your prof. friend in, I am wondering if I ever had her as a prof. What group is she from?

Jackie

Heck, I am working on both my Master's and teaching credential at Long Beach, and I advise for my chapter there and I have no idea how Sigma Lambda Gamma is listed under PHC as they are a latina interest organization, and if you look at the side of the page under panhellenic organizations it's not listed...so go figure. (check out http://www.sigmalambdagamma.com for info, though LB is not listed as a colony...but anyhow). As far as I know, the campus is still not opening to expansion at this rate because the number of women placed with chapters during formal recruitment is very high.

There is no official housing at UCRiverside. Greek life was established in the mid-70s with the FIJIs as the first fraternity, and 3 NPCs: Gamma Phi Beta (still around), Kappa Kappa Gamma (still around), and Kappa Alpha Theta (not around since late 90s). Many fraternities have "houses," but they aren't officially owned or run by the national level- just a bunch of guys that live there. By far, the most well-known house is the Kappa Alpha Order house which is an old stone minicastle (literally) on a huge property and about 18 men live there. The NPC and NIC chapters are as follows:

NPC:

Alpha Chi Omega
Delta Gamma
Gamma Phi Beta
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Pi Beta Phi
Sigma Kappa

All chapters hit or come extremely close to total of 70 (soon raised to 80) in Fall, and quota has raised in the past 4 years from about 16 to 25ish.

NIC:

Alpha Tau Omega (55-58)
Delta Tau Delta (65-70)
Kappa Alpha Order (70-75)
Lambda Chi Alpha (25-35)
Phi Delta Theta (5-10)
Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI) (35-45)
Phi Kappa Sigma (35-40)
Pi Kappa Alpha (35-40)

Approximate numbers for each fraternity are in parentheses; things change fast though when recruitment comes around.

Interest groups/chapters to most likely join in Fall:

Tau Kappa Epsilon (was not invited to colonize in the Fall as of the beginning of July)
Phi Kappa Psi (invited to colonize in the fall as of July)
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Alpha Epsilon Pi (all ready established-not sure if recognized nationally)

NPHC groups:

Sigma Gamma Rho
Omega Psi Phi
Alpha Kappa Alpha (coming back after 2-3 absent years)
Kappa Alpha Psi (coming back after 1-2 absent years)

There are a large number of Latino/Chicano and Asian-American chapters as well, which I can list if you want.

We had a Panhellenic/IFC website created a while ago, but it's really outdated now. The link is http://www.greekbrothersandsisters.org , but you won't get much more info other than what I've said.

For the record, UCR administration is anti-greek for the most part, but some of that attitude has been changing since the inauguration of the new Chancellor. We'll see where things go. But for those of you at UCR, don't count on Greek housing for another 25 years at least (sad, but true).

FUCK YEAH
PHI KAPPA PSI


I am drunk...

True. BTW, I was actually very surprised when I saw my school included in your list, Adpiucf.

Just to add a little more to the Stanislaus info (since i'm sure you are all dying to know. most of you are going. where the hell is that anyway)

We have all together 13 GLOs on campus. 2 NPC (like Glitter mentioned). 2 NIC, and 2 national music orgs. the rest are local/regional.

We are a huge commuter campus without greek housing. Greeks do however dominate the campus with everything. We are all very involved (*cough* some more than others... *cough* :p) with our campus activities. We participate in all the events and all that good stuff. The school does support us. However they could support us a little bit more; but I'll take what I can get.

We do have some anti-greek students though. (losers anyway if you ask me. hee hee) Our community does know that we are out here and all, but there are others that will pull the whole "there are greeks at Stan?" deal :rolleyes: oh well. I like my small greek school though. it works for me! :)

Pepperdine: Small Greek System, unhoused chapters. There are seven NPC groups right now: Alpha Phi, Gamma Phi Beta, Delta Gamma, Delta Delta Delta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, and Pi Beta Phi. Chapter size is actually fairly large (b/w 60 and 100) and a large portion of the student body is greek. There are five IFC fraternities: Psi U, Sigma Chi, Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Nu and Sig Ep.

Santa Clara: The Greek System is NOT recognized at Santa Clara. There are two NPC sororities: Alpha Phi & Delta Gamma. I know SAE still has a chapter there but I am not certain what other fraternities are still there. Here is a link to an article about the phase out of greek life at SCU.

Laura

What about University of San Diego (private, Catholic, I think) -- isn't Greek Life strong there?

They're Sororities, number wise, are MUCh bigger than SDSU, Gamma Phi at SDSU is about 75, and at USD it's about 150. Only thing is that we're the only ones who have greek houses.

Both IFC and Panhellenic have about 5 GLOs each, and are fairly big, except I think Delts are closing.

The multicultural spread hasn't came to USD yet, as far as I know they only have one.

My cousin is going to UCSB next year, but I have a feeling she's not interested in Greek life. If anyone has any info to post for the hell of it, though, I am a little curious about it...

(I think we used to have an AGD chapter there that's inactive now, but that's all I know.)

Do you go to SCU? I know a Laura that goes to SCU that is an Alpha Phi.

I have a friend who is now an alum Kappa from USD..(graduated in spring) and I know her chapter was pretty big... but I don't know about greek life in general there...

Santa Clara greek life isn't recognized on campus... (IE can't advertise at school, no money, etc..) BUT they have houses and are NPC sponsered... and are doing so well they are are looking into expansion... from what I heard at an Northern Cali. NPC luncheon this past spring...

No, but there is/was a laura in their chapter with my same name. Very funny! Leads to lots of confusion in A Phi.

USD
 

hey i just saw this thread... im a gamma phi beta at usd, and greek life is pretty big here. my house is the biggest with around 150 sisters. im not sure which sorority has the lowest membership, but im sure that none have below 100 members (there are 5 sororities - ADPi, Alpha Phi, Gamma Phi, Theta, and Kappa).
as for fraternities, well we're kind of running low on guys at our school in general, and the fraternity membership reflects that unfortuneately. i think either lambda chi or sigma chi has the highest membership with around 75 or so? its somewhere around there... the other 2 fraternities are sig ep and delta tau delta. i know the delts have somewhere around 20 members or less, and i dont know how many sig eps there are...
im actually the prvp for panhellenic at my school, and i have to revamp the whole site, but ill let yall know when i get it up and running so you can check it out! :) our whole greek life page is getting re-done this summer, ugh so much work!
xoxo
chantillylace