My sister is currently at Alabama and I grew up here...the machine is not like TNE. It's not a separate society that anyone can be a member of.
And for the record, I was a member of the Greek System at FSU and I would say that we do not have ANYTHING comparable to the machine at UA, as someone mentioned. Burning Spear does not have pull over anything as far as the entire Greek System goes. The Greeks tend to vote together but there is no controlling/reigning party. In fact, things fluctuate so much there, the parties actually change names and alliances every couple of years
