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(FIJI-UC ) Riverside - Houses are rather spread out and from what I hear greek life is growing there. I know there are several big chapters but I've always had the impression that it wasn't a very big system.
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There is no official housing at UCRiverside. Greek life was established in the mid-70s with the FIJIs as the first fraternity, and 3 NPCs: Gamma Phi Beta (still around), Kappa Kappa Gamma (still around), and Kappa Alpha Theta (not around since late 90s). Many fraternities have "houses," but they aren't officially owned or run by the national level- just a bunch of guys that live there. By far, the most well-known house is the Kappa Alpha Order house which is an old stone minicastle (literally) on a huge property and about 18 men live there. The NPC and NIC chapters are as follows:
NPC:
Alpha Chi Omega
Delta Gamma
Gamma Phi Beta
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Pi Beta Phi
Sigma Kappa
All chapters hit or come extremely close to total of 70 (soon raised to 80) in Fall, and quota has raised in the past 4 years from about 16 to 25ish.
NIC:
Alpha Tau Omega (55-58)
Delta Tau Delta (65-70)
Kappa Alpha Order (70-75)
Lambda Chi Alpha (25-35)
Phi Delta Theta (5-10)
Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI) (35-45)
Phi Kappa Sigma (35-40)
Pi Kappa Alpha (35-40)
Approximate numbers for each fraternity are in parentheses; things change fast though when recruitment comes around.
Interest groups/chapters to most likely join in Fall:
Tau Kappa Epsilon (was not invited to colonize in the Fall as of the beginning of July)
Phi Kappa Psi (invited to colonize in the fall as of July)
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Alpha Epsilon Pi (all ready established-not sure if recognized nationally)
NPHC groups:
Sigma Gamma Rho
Omega Psi Phi
Alpha Kappa Alpha (coming back after 2-3 absent years)
Kappa Alpha Psi (coming back after 1-2 absent years)
There are a large number of Latino/Chicano and Asian-American chapters as well, which I can list if you want.
We had a Panhellenic/IFC website created a while ago, but it's really outdated now. The link is
http://www.greekbrothersandsisters.org , but you won't get much more info other than what I've said.
For the record, UCR administration is anti-greek for the most part, but some of that attitude has been changing since the inauguration of the new Chancellor. We'll see where things go. But for those of you at UCR, don't count on Greek housing for another 25 years at least (sad, but true).