Has anyone heard of this fraternity?
 

U of M frat suspended in hazing case
The University of Minnesota has suspended a fraternity on the St. Paul campus for hazing.
Mary Jane Smetanka, Star Tribune

The FarmHouse Fraternity, which has had a chapter on the St. Paul campus since 1931, is suspended as a registered student organization through spring semester 2007. The university and the fraternity's international organization are investigating, and if the hazing was severe enough, the chapter could be closed.

Two fraternity members who had been hazed complained to U officials on Feb. 23.

"It appears to be a pattern of behaviors in how new members were treated during their initiation, over a period of months," said Jerry Rinehart, university vice provost for student affairs. "Students were put in physically dangerous positions, and there was emotional degradation associated with that. We're very fortunate no physical harm was done and we could intervene."

The fraternity prohibits alcohol and its 25 to 30 members are cooperating with the investigation, Rinehart said. In fact, leaders of the fraternity acknowledged that the behavior had been going on "but didn't know how to stop this tradition. There was recognition that they can't get where they want to go without stopping this."

Over the next two weeks, about 15 residents of the house will be interviewed, Rinehart said. Appropriate sanctions for students will be proposed, and students have the right to appeal those through the student judicial system.

If the violations are bad enough, either the university or FarmHouse Fraternity International could close the chapter. For now, Rinehart said, the chapter is prohibited until the end of spring semester 2007 from participating in Interfraternity Council recruitment events or sending mass mailings through the university. It also will not be able to sponsor or participate in social events.

Farmhouse? Yeah. What about them?

FarmHouse, Triangle, Ceres (I'm sure there's more) are all non-Greek letter fraternities/sororities. I believe they are all agriculturally based.

Yes, we have a good friend who is a FH from South Dakota. They were/are agriculturally based like Alpha Gamma Rho.

http://www.farmhouse.org/

Triangle is for engineers, AFAIK.

That's right...I had forgotten. Do we even have and FH/Triangle/Ceres that still post?

Wow, learn something new everyday. When I read the article, I couldn't help but think about Animal House.

I am pretty sure Ceres is FH for girls - I think the national organizations are linked in some way. Does FH have a requirement to operate a working farm on each chapter's campus, or is that AGR? Can't remember. Also, along the lines of non-Greek letter fraternities, we could add Acacia to that list.

I've heard of them. I officiated them in intramural softball and flag football. They all came out to that stuff like it was a prime time professional event; new jerseys, underarmour gear, the works. Never hung out with them though. The St. Paul campus is too far to stumble home from.

We have both Alpha Gamma Rho and FarmHouse at Idaho for the men, and Sigma Alpha for the women. Washington State has both of the mens groups, and Ceres for women. One difference is that Ceres operates with the NPC groups at Wazzu, but Sigma Alpha doesn't at UI as they are considered a professional organization. AGR still has the requirement of being a Natural Resources of Agricultural major, but FH doesn't anymore.

The school operates many different farms, labs, and areas around the states students work with. The groups are also involved with Future Farmers of America and 4H locally, and recruit incoming students that way. The AGRs have been having a stellar year, with the highest grades out of all the fraternities (3.34), with no member being deficient (below a 2.0) in grades. The only group to have higher grades was a sorority with a 3.38, and every other groufraternity or sorority had at least one member deficient. Not too shabby for a group with a limited pool of applicants, and the last installed fraternity (Sigma Phi Epsilon is still a colony).

ladygreek - many people outside the greek system can't remember FarmHouse's name, and call it Animal House.

GC poster FHWKU is in FarmHouse at (duh) WKU, I believe.

Acacia is another. Not agriculturally based to my knowledge, though.

West Bank, East Bank, St. Paul Campus, come on now they all aren't that far apart--if you have a car. :D

Yep, AGRs got in trouble at Un. Mo. over an animal problem. Go figure and they "Had" an Agricultural background.

Most of the Fraternitys of this nature while had Husbandry backgrounds have become more Social and are Members of NIC.

Pat Green was in Farmhouse at Texas Tech

True, but that walk from St. Paul to East Bank or West Bank is horrible!

Acacia is not agriculturally based, but they did get busted for growing pot in their house at U of I while I was there. Their origins are Masonic, although that relationship is no longer official.

There is a FarmHouse (and AGR) chapter at the campus where I was a collegiate member. They were good guys, a lot of our sisters hung out/dated guys from there.

Both FarmHouse and Alpha Gamma Rho have chapters at Iowa State as well (imagine that, two Agriculture Fraternities at an Ag University, huh).

AGRs tended to get more of the Farm/Ag boys than FH, but I'd say they were each other's biggest competition in events like Homecoming and Varieties.

Yeah, and if I'm going to be at a party like that, there should be no reason for me to drive. Even if I don't drink that much, I'll smell like I raided a liquor cabinet. That's my personal risk management. But, I'll party on the St. Paul campus before I graduate. The orgs over there do pub pretty hard.

Wasn't he also in Beta?

As someone who has FH, Acacia, Triangle, AGR, AGS and a local AGNu, I can vouch for who is still and who is no longer limiting in their membership.

Farmhouse is no longer agriculturally selective. I believe that their cahpter at Nebraska is widely considered their "flagship" chapter (stealing the lingo from an earlier thread). I believe that they were founded at Missouri though. They are more ag based than the other top houses at Nebraska b/c they are on East campus, which has all the ag majors and classes, but they are definitely broader in scope major wise than the other East Campus fraternities.

Acacia was never limited in their membership as far as major goes. They did have very strong Masonic ties. Supposedly William Jennings Bryan was a member of the Acacia chapter here in Lincoln, but that was more likely some aspect of a Masonic membership as according to Wiki, he didn't move to Lincoln until after attending law school.

Triangle is limited to majors in the sciences, architecture, and engineering, at least they have a strong lean that way. Yes, members are allowed to change their majors.

Alpha Gamma Rho, AFAIK, remains heavily ag based. I believe that is a national thing. On Lincoln's east campus

Alpha Gamma Sigma was ag based, and b/c of their location at Nebraska (across the street from East campus which is almost entirely ag majors) they are primarily ag, but I know they will look at any major.

Alpha Gamma Nu is the only local in the Nebraska-Lincoln Greek Community, and they've been around for over 50 years (yes 50! most people don't even know they are a local they've been around so long). They started as the AgMen house and then morphed to a fraternity. Again another East Campus house so primarily ag, but not limited by it any more as far as I know.

NIC
 

FYI: Acacia, Alpha Gamma Rho, Alpha Gamma Sigma, FarmHouse and Triangle are all NIC members. Have been for many years. Also, Acacia is one of the original NIC charter members.

I have heard that buy i'm not sure. I just know all my friends at Tech said he was in Farmhouse, but you may be right.

Animal House? The porn or the comedy?

Is that how his name reads? Every time I read his name I said f*ck you. I've been enlightened.:)

I read it like taht a few times too;)

We have both Farmhouse and AGR.

Farmhouse here is very, very small. 9 members, and 4 pledges. They have their own house, but it's shared with the chemistry department. They seem like alright guys, and are actually kind of rushing hard.

Also, Pat Green was both a Beta and Farmhouse but I'm not exactly sure how that worked out. And Django Walker was a ATO at Texas...State? I believe.

Farmhouse's Alpha chapter is at my school (they're our next door neighbors actually!) and I know for a fact that Pat Green is or was at some point a Farmhouse member (not at the Mizzou chapter). When one of their brothers died last year or the year before they had him come up here to perform a memorial concert for him and he mentioned then that he was a member.