Update on Pitt Greeks
 

http://www.pittnews.com/vnews/displa.../426c6e95b5584

Very strange comment on treating unrecognized houses (not unrecognized fraterities- fraternities that have a house somewhere that's not official and not recognized by Pitt as a house) as third-party vendors.

Strange to be sure!
 

But seems to be a very positive article from someone in the Administration for a change.:)

Trying to work together and it is showing a plus for all GLOs there. Maybe the view of how to for the future!:cool:

I wish the Greek Advisor at PSU, Ks. was more like that instead of a do nothing twit.

Currently, all but two fraternities with houses on the hill are on social probation for the remainder of the school year.

Is this true??? :eek: Yikes!

Yeah, that was my reaction. I'm not surprised. And this isn't something to be proud of or view as progress. I'm used to a couple being on probation, but 5 out of 7?

What is the average fraternity chapter size at Pitt?

-Rudey

totally depends. There's some with a handful, some with well over 100.

according to numbers prior to spring recruitment, I'd venture a guess that the average fraternity size is around 40+ members with the biggest hovering around 80 and the smallest with 12+ members.

That's not counting PiLams of course.

I think Chris is more or less talking in terms of communicating with the groups better. There's a long road ahead for the system but I think some positive steps have been made. After all, Rome wasn't built in a day....

I'm guessing he's a bit confused on the third party vendor thing. But I think he's doing a good job, the problem is he's doing the work of at least 2 people, so we'll see.

The Beta chapter there supposedly has over a 100...but I heard that they got kicked off recently.

I'm assuming you're speaking of Beta Theta Pi? There is no chapter of Beta Theta Pi at Pitt and hasn't been for quite some time (under the presumption that there has been one there before).

Perhaps you're thinking of the CMU chapter?

Is there a chapter of Delta Delta Delta at Pitt?

yes, we have:

Chi Omega
Delta Delta Delta
Sigma Sigma Sigma
Kappa Delta (kddani's chapter)
Sigma Delta Tau
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Theta Phi Alpha
Delta Zeta (Killarney Rose's chapter)
Alpha Delta Pi (honeychile's chapter)
Alpha Epsilon Phi
and DPhiE of course!

Thank you. :) I didn't realize that Pitt had so many chapters. I met a Pitt and TriDelta alumna at the Beekman Tower NPC brunch on Saturday which is why I asked.

Just out of curiosity, which fraternities are on the hill, and which are off campus? I know that Delta Tau Delta and Pi Kappa Alpha are up there, I'm not sure about anyone else at this point!

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

I think that's everyone on the hill - There are two dental fraternities with housing (I know one definitely is, not sure about the other), which I find amazing that one of the 2 is there, seeing as how they built a new house on the hill, yet the off campus fraternities cannot build there.

That list absolutely shocks me! Where are

FIJI
Kappa Sigma
Theta Chi
Alpha Epsilon Pi
Pi Alpha Phi
Delta Phi
Triangle?

I always get a kick out of seeing a birth control clinic in the old Phi Kap house - but I've always had a sick sense of humor!

And TWO dental fraternities?!

These are guesses in the last 8 or so years:
Theta Chi - closed
Triangle closed a few years ago
Pi Kappa Phi - closed
FIJI - lost uni recognition and then from their nationals
Delta Sigma Phi - closed
Phi Delta Theta - closed

they have as "off-campus" fraternities that are recognized by the university:

Alpha Epsilon Pi
Delta Phi
Delta Chi
Lambda Chi Alpha
Phi Sigma Kappa
Sigma Alpha Mu
Tau Epsilon Phi
Tau Kappa Epsilon (although I think they are suspended or something)


I think that's everyone as far as IFC/NPC groups go...

WOW!!! The fraternities that asked me to be a little sister are both gone! I had forgotten about Lambda Chi Alpha, Delta Chi, and Sigma Alpha Mu. The Sammies were forever trying to come back on campus, but were always unsuccessful.

I knew about Delta Sigma Phi to an extent, only because they gave us their lions. :) Unfortuately, those suckers are HUGE, and I'm not wild about them being on either side of the fireplace, towards the front, instead of on the sides.

Do the rest of the Pitt peeps have this problem: when you visit your Suite, are you frustrated with what it looks like? I promised myself that I would not get upset with the decor, and I wasn't quite as upset as in the past. But I still miss what it looked like when I lived there!!

Yeah, that's it. I'm an idiot. My brother's girlfriend went to pitt. I don't know what I was thinking.

Im a little frustrated at the way our suite looks, but its nothing that the actives havent been trying to fix. Last fall they moved us over to an old office space in Bruce Hall, and it still looks... well... office-y! They've done the best that they could with the time and money avaliable, and it does looks pretty good, but I still prefer our old carpets in McCormick to the industrial carpet that was installed be the university. Sigh.

Where the heck are the greek houses/housing at Pitt? I spend craploads of time in Oakland and I've never seen a house (perhaps I'm not looking close enough?).

The Kappas are the only ones with a house - it's on Bayard, between N. Bellefield & N. Dithridge.

The rest of the NPC sororities are in the Quad. If you're driving along Fifth Avenue, and see the PNC Bank, make the next left, and you're in the Quad. Theta Phi Alpha is in the back of the Quad, in Bruce Hall (or in the front, if you're driving along Forbes), while the rest are in Amos Hall. It's the building with PNC at the bottom. There's only 15 minutes parking allowed in the Quad, though.

The Quad were luxury apartments built in 1927 (I think) and called Schenley Apartments. Each building has a different floor plan, but Amos had two apartments on each floor. So, every sorority there has 2 living rooms, 2 kitchens, 3 "normal sized" bedrooms, and 2-3 singles (which were maids' rooms). The Formal Living Room is 25'x 16'6", for example. I have floorplans, if anyone would want me to try (!) to scan them...

Once, each sorority was given ONE side of a floor, with the larger sororities getting both sides, and smaller ones having to share a floor with another sorority. Some of the sororities actually laid claim to a floor, and then another apartment on another floor!

Can we tell who's working on their Chapter's history? :D

Back in the mid-eighties we used to share a floor with the Kappa Deltas! I couldnt think of another group of ladies who I would rather be with! I think we moved over to McCormick in the late eighties, early nineties, right before we reorganized. Supposedly there is still a Piano still floating around Amos that was once ours, but we no longer know who has it, or even if there was one at all!

I've seen the pictures from back then. I can't even imagine what it would be like to share a suite... especially when you're having ritual, etc. Even with being on different sides, it would still be hard.

I'm trying to remember who has a piano. I know we don't. And I am very thankful for that. While it would be nice during rush, I would NOT want it around while I was living in the suite and people coming home late at night, um, in an "altered" state, and being idiots and playing it.

That's what I thought! Someone tried to tell me that y'all were in the ADPi Suite for a year, and I could NOT place it!

<---- feeling old. When I rushed, the only "full" suites were Alpha Delta Pi, Delta Delta Delta, Chi Omega, and Delta Zeta! The others had the Formal side, and either another sorority, independents, or friends on the other side. DZ & ChiO both had an extra side on another floor (referred to as "annexes") and we had a partial one (and a fake suite in Brackenridge!).