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Originally Posted by alum
Actually the title of the thread Athletics in Greek Life is somewhat misleading. To me, that would be discussing the GLO teams that compete on an intermural level.
This thread should be called Athletes in Greek Life OR Greeks in Athletics.
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I looked at some old issues of my GLO's magazine. Actives have been profiled in our magazine who are intercollegiate D1 athletes in a myriad of sports running the gamut from cross-country to equestrian competition.
The coaches at my alma mater didn't forbid or ban Greek membership for the intercollegiate athletes. However, the College of Fine Arts faculty made it very difficult for the dramats and other BFA candidates to pledge. This was not the case at the other colleges that are part of the university system.
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The Kappa Sig magazine had an article a couple of years ago on the decline of collegiate athletes in the fraternity. There was a period when the fraternity had quite a few collegiate and professional athletes, and that has fallen off almost completely recently. It may have something to do with the discussion of this thread, or it may just be that Kappa Sig isn't the football/baseball/whatever fraternity on campuses.
The professors at my school never did anything as far as limiting Greek involvement, although there were some who looked down on it. On the other hand, it was a professor who helped revive the Greek system at my school in the mid 1980's.