campus bookstores

[erica812]

At my alma mater (a teeny tiny school), our campus store had tons of Greek stuff. Shirts, stickers, stuffed animals, car decals, jewelry, stationary, dishes, key chains, everything! You could even order jackets and other clothing items. The store even had APO stuff (which often gets forgotten in Greek merchandise).

I just got back from the campus store here (grad school), and there is almost NOTHING Greek. I only saw a handful of Greek letter decals...not even the whole alphabet!

I'm just wondering what other campus stores are like, in terms of Greek merchandise.

[adpialumcsuc]

When I was at Chico State there was hardly anything sold at the book store. We had to get most of our stuff at off campus places. This may have changed over the past couple of years since they now have a massive book store.

[CatStarESP4]

My alma mater, Stony Brook, never sold any Greek paraphernalia at the campus bookstore when I was there. I have visited several times in recent years and they had very few items their. However, there is a local Greek shop that comes to the campus once or twice a week that sells GLO paraphernalia for a long time now. I am not sure if they still do, but it is a great service they provide.

[Lil' Hannah]

My bookstore did not sell greek merchandise either. There was an independent store off campus that sold everything.

[SparkliiQTMTSU]

Our campus bookstore sells some greek stuff not that much though, but there's another bookstore right off of campus pretty much still on it that has lots of cool greek stuff. They even make shirts if you want em to pretty nifty store!


Nichole

[absolutuscchick]

At USC: had an entire display, but there was a greek store off of frat and sorority row that had everything you could think of and made shirts, shorts, whatever. At ASU, the bookstore doesn't have anything greek, but right off of campus is "the college store" which has a good selection of stuff.

[Mandelion]

Our bookstore sells bunches of Greek stuff! (IFC, PHC, and NPHC). A lot of little things from liscence plates to shirts, mugs, tissues, bottle openers, we've got a lot of little things that could be good for bid day and such.

Plus theres a Greek shop about 3 blocks away that does paddles and custom shirts, kinda neat.

[ADPiSAI]

our bookstore doesn't have any Greek stuff, and we don't have a Greek store anywhere around here!
When I go home, I hit up a store in Delaware. It has lots of Greek stuff, but usually not so much for ADPi. Oh well -- I always find at least one thing.

[BSUPhiSig'92]

At SIUE the bookstore has a pretty limited selection. It is at least better than when I first got here (nothing!). But I understand there is a new store in St. Louis called "From One Greek to Another" that is really good. The owner called me over the summer and asked what chapters we had. Some of my students have been there and said they have started stocking merchandise for our chapters! This is really great, because several of the chapters on our campus (Alpha Sigma Tau, Delta Phi Epsilon, Phi Kappa Psi, Alpha Kappa Lambda) don't have another chapter in the St. Louis area, so it makes their merchandise pretty tough to come by and usually involves a two hour (minimum) drive to another campus. So it's a welcome addition!

[GeekyPenguin]

The bookstore at Platteville had a limited selection - mostly car window stickers. They didn't want to carry more national stuff because they thought it would "offend" the locals. They did have some stitch letter shirts but they were hella expensive. We usually drove to the bookstore at Wisconsin (which has an awesome selection) or ordered online.

Marquette's bookstore has absolutely nothing, but this is a pretty antiGreek campus.

[texas*princess]

Our bookstores here don't have any Greek stuff We usually go to the greek store on the square for stickers/decals/clothes... or to greek store in surrounding cities

[DeltAlum]

When I was an undergraduate, you could buy Greek stuff at stores all over town -- especially the book stores.

Last time I looked, about the only place now is in a basement store adjacent to the College Book Store (that's the store's name). The store was totally dedicated to Greek merchandise.

They did seem to have a fairly good selection of stuff.

I'll be back for Homecoming in less than a month -- and I need some license plate frames for a new car, so I'll see then.

[lilkel244]

My bookstore sells nothing Greek. To get letters we have to drive 45 minutes to UCONN to one of their Greek Shops or wait once a month the greek shops come to our student union to sell stuff. It kinda stinks considering the amount of Greeks here the bookstore really could carry at least something!

[ADPiSAI]

Originally posted by lilkel244
My bookstore sells nothing Greek. To get letters we have to drive 45 minutes to UCONN to one of their Greek Shops or wait once a month the greek shops come to our student union to sell stuff. It kinda stinks considering the amount of Greeks here the bookstore really could carry at least something!

sounds like you go to UHa... am I right? I went there for a year...
Anyway, my best friend still goes there, and I make her order stuff for me from the once a month Greek shop tables all the time!

[lilkel244]

Yup I do go to Uha! When did you go here? I am a junior in the New Delta Zeta chapter! Yeah the lack of greek stuff stinks here, and there used to be two stores at Uconn, but one just closed (which is the one that carried my family letters so we need to pick new ones)