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Any TKE chapters in the Ivy League ? If not any plans for expansion there?

Isn't "Scorpion" chapter at an Ivy League school? (Cornell, is it?)

I didn't realize Cornell was Ivy League, it maybe.

What schools are considered Ivy League?

Harvard, Princeton, Yale.....

?
I'd consider Notre Dame the ivy leage of indiana.
lol
It's expensive as hell and hard as fuck to get into.

my mom wants me to go there for law school.
I just looked at her.
lol

Jess

Ivy League actually refers to the sports division they play within.

They include: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, UPenn, Princeton, Yale.

NorthWestern is considered Ivy League

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Originally posted by SigmaChiCard
NorthWestern is considered Ivy League

What does "considered" mean? Ivy League does not refer to academic excellence but rather a sports division.

Please check out this link:
http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/19991110.html

Quote:

Originally posted by SigmaChiCard
NorthWestern is considered Ivy League

No, it is not. There are only eight schools in the league.

Brown, Cornell, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Princeton, Harvard, UPenn

To answer the question....

The only Ivy League school to have TKE (active or not) is Cornell.

There's not one Ivy League campus that has a decent fraternity system.

Most of the evils we have inflicted upon ourselves (deferred rush, quotas) started in the Ivy Lg.

For many years, the fraternity system was controlled by a series of officers and staff from Ivy Lg. schools and GLOs that have chapters there (Zeta Psi, Delta Phi, etc.) and in general nothing very exciting happened good for GLOs.

There was a huge fight to move the NIC office to Indianapolis (from NYC), and this era of deadness ended.

Stay away, I say.

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Originally posted by hoosier
There's not one Ivy League campus that has a decent fraternity system.

Columbia.

Quote:

There was a huge fight to move the NIC office to Indianapolis (from NYC), and this era of deadness ended.

My sources (which include an NIC Gold Medal winner) say that the NIC moved for the same reason why most HQs moved to Indy: no property taxes for fraternal organizations in Indiana.

AK-Penn-Ivy League chapter

Alpha Kappa chapter was for years the largest in TKE. During the
30s the chapter had 80 some actives. The closure of the chapter
for WWII ended it and it was never re-opened. Many attempts to return failed, not due to TKE, but Penn had a two-track system, the Jewish fraternities and the Gentile ones, separate rushes. We would have to return as a Jewish house, and while TKE is not
adverse to any ethnicity, we rejected each time the notion 'cause
we would be discriminatory...and we took a lot of heat because
we did not return to Penn. Penn alums were among our most loyal and successful. It is sad, we have not even today returned
to Penn. I do not know if they maintain Jewish/Gentile rushes yet
there. It was a sorry situation. And, for an Ivy League school it
was bigotry at its best. TKE has long maintained a Cornell unit,
known as Scorpion (originally Sigma) chapter. The Penn local which aspired to go TKE was Theta Rho...and it may exist yet. But
even our most liberal, Jim Logan, was against us being all anything...time has proven us right and Penn wrong.
So, TKE has been at ONLY two of the Ivy League schools. It would be nice to go to Harvard and Yale instead of Bruce's School
of Cosmetology or that ilk...

Quote:

Originally posted by hoosier
There's not one Ivy League campus that has a decent fraternity system.

UPenn, Columbia, Cornell has a thriving fraternity system.

Re: AK-Penn-Ivy League chapter

Quote:

Originally posted by Erik P Conard
Alpha Kappa chapter was for years the largest in TKE. During the
30s the chapter had 80 some actives. The closure of the chapter
for WWII ended it and it was never re-opened. Many attempts to return failed, not due to TKE, but Penn had a two-track system, the Jewish fraternities and the Gentile ones, separate rushes. We would have to return as a Jewish house, and while TKE is not
adverse to any ethnicity, we rejected each time the notion 'cause
we would be discriminatory...and we took a lot of heat because
we did not return to Penn. Penn alums were among our most loyal and successful. It is sad, we have not even today returned
to Penn. I do not know if they maintain Jewish/Gentile rushes yet
there. It was a sorry situation. And, for an Ivy League school it
was bigotry at its best. TKE has long maintained a Cornell unit,
known as Scorpion (originally Sigma) chapter. The Penn local which aspired to go TKE was Theta Rho...and it may exist yet. But
even our most liberal, Jim Logan, was against us being all anything...time has proven us right and Penn wrong.
So, TKE has been at ONLY two of the Ivy League schools. It would be nice to go to Harvard and Yale instead of Bruce's School
of Cosmetology or that ilk...

When Phi Psi chartered at Penn in 1877, it was a majority Jewish chapter (our second such chapter, following Columbia in 1872.) Through the years, the religious makeup of our Penn Iota chapter has fluctuated, often with a majority Christian membership. It would be interesting to read more information on this two-track system at Penn. Any citations?

Ivy League...is it still so great?

When Kingman Brewster initiated his two-tier system of getting
diverse types into Yale, the dummy forgot one thing...after these
less-than-gifted types got there...they could not pass the tests.
So, he put it in crawdad gear. One of my high school classmates
who rode a John Deere A in the '50s recently retired a full prof. at
Yale and the stories he tells...would curl your hair.
And I had the stupid notion of flunkin' a football player at the U of
OK. Damned near cost me my PhD....I dummied up for a first time,
got my PhD and got the hell out.
At CU (Colorado) they are shocked...shocked...to learn that there is actually sex, drugs, booze...girls...used to entice potential jocks
to come to CU! Forsooth!
Alums do not give a rat's ass how you put together a team, just
WIN...WIN...at all costs. To blow the whistle is to end a career...
yours.
So, it is kinda fun to embrace one's fraters and to mingle with the
greeks...in a milieu much more comfortable.
Again, I harp...ever see the composites of the so-called co-ed fraternities? Ugly...ugly...look it up...likely will have a photo of a
New Hampshire collegian...politically correct, and one who would
not be caught dead buying my act....LOL...We must, dear reader,
attempt to maintain a sense of humor...so please humor me and
Tom Earp....we will continue to try to be clever....try....well, er.....