UW-LaCrosse & UW-Oshkosh

PSKAdvisor · #1 05-16-2006, 11:30 AM

Hey, can anyone from UW-LaCrosse and UW-Oshkosh email or PM me please? I have some questions...

Thanks.

-Tom

PSKAdvisor · #2 05-18-2006, 08:07 AM

Still looking for someone from UW-LaCrosse

Thanks.

Jestor · #3 05-21-2006, 03:17 AM

PM Sent.

Tom Earp · #4 05-21-2006, 11:16 AM

Checked their web sites on greekpages.com

Boy is there a difference in Greek Communities!

GeekyPenguin · #5 05-21-2006, 01:07 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Tom Earp
Checked their web sites on greekpages.com

Boy is there a difference in Greek Communities!

What are you implying by this?

Tom Earp · #6 05-21-2006, 01:39 PM

Just for Your information.

The numbers of Greek Organizations on each Campus.

So, what is Your problem with that?

Check each Schools Web Sites and learn.

There is a big difference.

GeekyPenguin · #7 05-21-2006, 02:33 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Tom Earp
Just for Your information.

The numbers of Greek Organizations on each Campus.

So, what is Your problem with that?

Check each Schools Web Sites and learn.

There is a big difference.

I KNOW there is a difference between the two schools. I am from Wisconsin. I was just wondering what your comment meant.

Tom Earp · #8 05-21-2006, 03:25 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
I KNOW there is a difference between the two schools. I am from Wisconsin. I was just wondering what your comment meant.

I thought I answered that with My First Post!

Do You get it NOW!

OMG!

So, did You go to either Schools?

If not, what is Your Major Interest in the Posts?

ilikehazing · #9 05-21-2006, 05:45 PM

Stop using smiley faces for the love of muhammad.

Tom Earp · #10 05-21-2006, 06:05 PM

LOVE SMILEYs, what are You a Happy Hater?

Erik P Conard · #11 05-21-2006, 06:32 PM

Back in the 50s, GLOs were going crazy in WI, and the old teachers colleges (TCs) were opening up for major greeks.
TKE was one of those pioneers, and so was Delta Sigma Phi,
and I recall staying at our Stevens Point location and working
out of there for several visits. We seem to be going like gang
busters, then WI raised the out of state tuition, late 60s, when
I was at U of IL first hitch in grad school (TKE adviser there, too)
Chapters folded like the devil as many out of staters were in the
GLOs. Many had just gone into hock heavily with the construction of new houses. Almost killed AKL. They are just now beginning to return. TKE had 18 chapters chartered, I think now 11 active + 3 colonies. At any rate, positive signs, harbingers of recovery.....
: WI will boom again. I do remember how 'primitive' I thought
Platteville was, things have changed; they had no GLOs then.
Keep your eyes peeled on Wisconsin, the old TCs now U's and
go there, revive, they will be great chapters!

GeekyPenguin · #12 05-22-2006, 12:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Erik P Conard
Back in the 50s, GLOs were going crazy in WI, and the old teachers colleges (TCs) were opening up for major greeks.
TKE was one of those pioneers, and so was Delta Sigma Phi,
and I recall staying at our Stevens Point location and working
out of there for several visits. We seem to be going like gang
busters, then WI raised the out of state tuition, late 60s, when
I was at U of IL first hitch in grad school (TKE adviser there, too)
Chapters folded like the devil as many out of staters were in the
GLOs. Many had just gone into hock heavily with the construction of new houses. Almost killed AKL. They are just now beginning to return. TKE had 18 chapters chartered, I think now 11 active + 3 colonies. At any rate, positive signs, harbingers of recovery.....
: WI will boom again. I do remember how 'primitive' I thought
Platteville was, things have changed; they had no GLOs then.
Keep your eyes peeled on Wisconsin, the old TCs now U's and
go there, revive, they will be great chapters!

Mr. Earp, I have jurisdiction to respond to this particular post because I was a student at Platteville and it is where I joined Gamma Phi Beta.

That being said, Mr. Conard, Platteville had a fraternity in 1866 and a sorority in 1867, both of which are still open. The fraternity is now Phi Sigma, which started as the Philadelphia Society and was briefly a member of Phi Sigma Epsilon, then Phi Sigma Kappa. That sorority is Gamma Phi Beta, which started as Nulli Secundas, then was the Athenaeum Society, then was Alpha Theta Chi. Both groups have maintained a continous presence on campus. So while primative (which it was) your assertion about the presence of GLOs is incorrect.

Tom Earp · #13 05-22-2006, 06:14 PM

G P, You have the right to post any where You wish, I do not like being called on a B S Deal. I responed after looking at the School Web Sites with regard to the Number of Greek Chapters there.

As far as Mr. Conards post, He may be wrong and if He is, He will be more than happy to reconsider.

It is great that You know the History of which You speak and it is very interesting as Greek Social History is always interesting for Me.

Thank You for the update.

Erik P Conard · #14 05-23-2006, 07:45 PM

My comment about Platteville being primitive, Greek-wise: I may
have been hasty; there've been a potful of locals and literary societies, many of them laughable, some good, and many in between. But if they were great, over-all, what happened to them
as few are left?
Please ignore the comment, though, as I did not intend to offend any particular person or school; I could have used Slippery Rock, Clarion, Portland, Kansas Wesleyan, or a slew of others.
And, my visits to those places were all too brief, just to
make quick assessments and fill out reports.
Great changes often resulted after a local has gone 'national.'
Tremendous transformations, mostly good.
But my over-all point is that Wisconsin will come back, and the
hike in tuition certainly did not enhance out of state recruitment.

GeekyPenguin · #15 05-23-2006, 08:22 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Erik P Conard
My comment about Platteville being primitive, Greek-wise: I may
have been hasty; there've been a potful of locals and literary societies, many of them laughable, some good, and many in between. But if they were great, over-all, what happened to them
as few are left?
Please ignore the comment, though, as I did not intend to offend any particular person or school; I could have used Slippery Rock, Clarion, Portland, Kansas Wesleyan, or a slew of others.
And, my visits to those places were all too brief, just to
make quick assessments and fill out reports.
Great changes often resulted after a local has gone 'national.'
Tremendous transformations, mostly good.
But my over-all point is that Wisconsin will come back, and the
hike in tuition certainly did not enhance out of state recruitment.

Most of the locals on Platteville's campus went national - and it definitely was for the better. One male local and two female locals are still open.

I think a big problem with Wisconsin Greek life is unfriendly administrations and townies - I know my chapter had quite a problem with neighbors in one of our former houses.