Music Sororities and Fraternities

[dzsaigirl]

Are you in a music sorority or fraternity? Which one? Are you also in a social sorority or fraternity at the same time?

[SigkapAlumWSU]

I have a friend who is in KKPsi (music) and APhiO, a service fraternity. He says he loves it.

[AlphaGam1019]

Our chapter has a SAI sister. She's so busy!!

[dzsaigirl]

I wish that people would start talking in the SAI forum! I am a new SAI (spring 2001) and I have a lot to say! I am also curious, as someone in DZ and SAI to know how people handle being in multiple groups too. But please music people, get talkin'!

[SilverTurtle]

My GLO is for the creative and performing arts, which naturally includes music. (Music was my major when I joined- it ended up being Speech & Comm, though).

I've never known anyone who was also in a social GLO. Part of the reason is the major time commitment that would involve, and partly because, at my campus at least, Phi Beta functioned very similarly to the social chapters. We did (do) a ton of service projects & of course art-related things. But we also have the traditional social stuff, like formals and Greek Week, etc. & participate on Greek Council. There was a girl that graduated a year before I came to the university that had been active in Phi Beta & a social sorority (a local, I think it was Zeta Pi Lambda).

At other schools I know that Phi Beta functions more like an honorary and/or professional organization. So it would make more sense for those members to be involved in both types of GLOs, although I've never met anyone who has been myself.

[SilverTurtle]

I also meant to mention NIMC- the National Interfraternity Music Council. It includes music sororities & fraternities and is a governing body similar to PFA or NPC or IFC, although not nearly as big. I haven't been able to find their website (if they have one). If anyone has a link, please post it!

I know member org.s include SAI, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia*, Phi Beta, Kappa Kappa Psi, Tau Beta Sigma, etc.



*Just wanted to that there is a chapter of Phi Mu Alpha at my campus, also. Almost all of the male profs in the Conservatory of Music were (are) alumni of PMA, so they were usually a fairly strong chapter. We did some joint activities with them also. But I never knew any of them to join a social GLO as well. In fact, I think they were more social than us... I know they did a lot of mixers with the sororities, etc.

[IotaNet]

I am a dual-member ... and I know quite a few other folks who are as well!

[ladybug1116]

I think I have posted this somewhere before, but I am a member of Tau Beta Sigma and Phi Mu. In Tau Beta Sigma we also had girls in Alpha Gamma Delta, Chi Omega, Kappa Kappa Gamma, and Gamma Phi Beta.

Sigma Alpha Iota (music) is also at FSU. They had sisters also active in Alpha Gam, Alpha Chi Omega, and Phi Mu.

FSU has Kappa Kappa Psi and Phi Mu Alpha as well. TBS tends to mix mostly with KKPsi and SAI hangs out primarily with PMA. The 4 groups have done a few socials all together but not many.

[crazyleggedsigma]

This sorta fits this thread.....

One of my sisters is lavaliered to a PMA, and we go out all the time together. One of the less-frequented bars on the riverfront in Cape has $.75 drafts and karaoke on Wednesday nights, and we always go. Beth, Rick (the PMA), my roommate and her boyfriend (a Sig Ep that played in the band his freshman year, so he's friends with Rick), and I go every week (My boy is long-distance, so we are all used to the 3rd or 5th wheel situation and noone minds Another PMA comes with us sometimes. It is soooooo much fun to do karaoke with them-all the other drunk people there are off key and can barely pull it off, but these guys do three part harmony (they sang Simon and Garfunkel's "Cecelia" to me for my birthday and it was beautiful!) The PMA guys in general have some of the best parties, because they're not full of the (sorry everyone to whom this may apply, it did to me at one time, and I'm sure it did to most of us at one point or another ) screaming freshman girls and smarmy guys who are just looking to find a girl to shack with... Another benefit of being friends with them is that I can have a brass quartet AND a string quartet at my wedding for barely more than the cost of the food they'll eat at the reception!

Just my $.02 about them!