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University: Saint Louis University
Location: St. Louis, MO
Year Founded: 1818
First Greek Chapter:
More commuter or more residential: There are a lot of commuters, but a lot of residential, and many of the commuters are near-campus (as in across the street) however I can’t find the numbers anywhere
Total Enrollment: 11,145 (This includes our Madrid, Spain campus; most students are only there for a semester or two before returning to St. Louis)
% Greeks: Not sure, can’t find the numbers for this either.
# of NIC Fraternities 13
# of NPC Sororities 5
# of Locals 0
# of NPHC groups Unsure: SLU doesn’t recognize them, but citywide chapters exist. I’ve seen on campus, AKA, SGRho for women, and perhaps APhiA for men, Another SLU student may know, I’m basing this off of the totebags/jackets I’ve seen and any posters for events in the area.
# of Multi cultural groups- Greek? None, but we do have ASIA and HALO and several other multicultural “chartered student organizations”
Wet or Dry Campus? Wet
What type of housing arrangements does your system have (BE SPECIFIC - none, dorm floors, chapter houses close to/on campus owned by chapters, chapter houses far off campus owned by chapters, normal houses rented by chapters off campus, etc.) One Greek dorm (Demattias Hall) with a chapter room for each fraternity/sorority and the GLOs share the floors(except Sigma Chi they have their own house that is off campus property and owned by the alumni) for example, ADPi, SK, and DG on one floor, Pikes, TKEs, Betas, and Delta Sigs on another.
Are there plans for construction of Greek housing soon? Nope
Do those with chapter houses have sleeping dorms, open airs, cold airs, porches, etc.? Sigma Chis have a patio and fenced in “yard”
Parties thrown in the fraternity houses? Yes, and for the non-Sigma Chi guys they often have at least one apartment where they’re all brothers, that becomes their “party apartment”
Your city easy on underage drinking? No. St. Louis is really cracking down on it. Especially in the bars around campus
Are bars in your city easy to drink underage in? Not really, especially around campus, although a good fake may make it for a while.
Type of Fraternity Rush (Open, structured, summer, other) Open I believe. The only rule is no drinking with the rushees and no summer parties when the incoming freshmen have orientation. It gave the Sigma Chi house an unfair advantage because they have a house.
When Sorority recruitment takes place for your system: Fall, about the second week of school
Do Greeks run things at your school? Run things, no. Very active, yes
Last Time Greek was Student Body President? Current President and at least the past few have been greek.
Last Time Greek was Homecoming King? Current king is Greek
Last Time Greek was Homecoming Queen? Current queen is Greek
Describe your typical Greek social Semester?(Are they called mixers/parties/exchanges, must they be registered, how many do you have a semester, any other "greek" sponsored social outlets, is having a party with another house a common thing or a rare thing, describe as much as possible) Several switches-fraternity and a sorority a semester, guys usually have their overnight formal once or twice a year, girls typically have a semiformal and a formal each semester, as well as a date dash (only find out a short time ahead of time, can invite up to 4 guys) and the crush party (invitations sent to guys that “someone” has a crush on them so come to our party, can still invite up to 4 guys) All social events for sororities must be approved. The guys tend to have more informal parties at their apartments and such, as well as their bid day parties each semester.
Good relationship with the University Administration? Yes, now that one of the more anti-greek VPs is gone.
Good relationship with Greek Affairs/Greek Life? I think so.
Is your director of Greek Affairs Greek? From your Campus? Actually, not certain. The woman in charge of the Greek dorm is a KKG from elsewhere (we don’t have KKG on campus)
Average dues associated with being in a chapter? More or less than living in Residence Halls?
My dues chapter’s active dues are $700 this year. I think this about average for sororities, though perhaps another SLU student could comment on this. Unsure about guys dues, I would assume they vary quite a bit, and we have one fraternity that is in quite a bit of debt to do failure to actually collect their dues last year. Oops!
Hazing, common or uncommon? In the sororities, if it even happens, it is extremely rare. I’ve never seen it, nor heard anything substantiated about it. For fraternities, probably about half of them do something that would be considered hazing.
Describe the types of philanthropies chapters do? Each chapter has a “week” where they run various philanthropies. Sigma Kappa will have start off with a homerun derby, sell lollypops all week, and have a pageant for the guys followed by an event. The pageant winner, whose fraternity must support him by raising money or doing favors for the sisters, will get free drinks at the event afterwards. Some chapters have one main event. For example. Pikes have Pike Spike, a day of volleyball competition where the money for the T-shirts and entrance to the “wet” event goes to their national philanthropy. The charities range quite a bit, though many of us have donated our money to Hurricane Katrina instead of the normal charity. Not sure if I’m for or against that.
Any notable traditions for the Greek System? Greek week is big, but not much else that I can think of. You’ll notice that Greeks are usually SGA president and Homecoming Queen/King. It seems that the most active people on campus are always, also, Greek. But I don’t think they win because they are Greek. (Though having that group of 100 people who’ll vote for you is nice, there’s always at least one other Greek candidate, so you’re really only guaranteed your chapter’s votes)
Hope that was enough to sate your curiosity.
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