Dynamics of Greek Life on campus

[Coquiporvida]

I have had this conversation with my sisters as well as other multicultural greeks as well as many IFC and PHA greeks. The dynamics of greek life definitely differ from university, to university. There can be a sense of unity felt, or a great division. At schools that are more heavy populated, and have a diversity of greeks, the experience may be differ greatly from a university who may not have this.

Missouri State by far has the most greek chapters the South West region, but my experience as a multi-cultural greek definitely differs. The dynamic of greek life at MSU has an ayre of disunity. Rarely do the chapters fratenize with others who are not similar to them. To put it simply, it is very elitist, especially amoung the multicultural greek life. So my question is, what is the dynamic of greek like at your respective college or university? Is the unity, or division.

[sjsoffer]

Well I go to Missouri State, so I'm guessing we have similar greek systems Only I'm not in a multicultural sorority.

[cattleprod]

Well I had never heard of missouri state until this thread much less their greek system so I doubt they have "the most greek chapters in the southwest region" unless the "southwest region" refers to southwestern missouri.

[Coquiporvida]

To reply to the previous thread, Im not just refering to multicultural sororities or franternities on MSU campus. I mean the perception of greek life on other colleges and universities as compared to MSU. It is my personal experience and observation as to the dynamic of greek life here.

And to the last post to clarify, it is the southwestern region. We are in the buckle of the bible belt, not very many surrounding universities even allow greek chapters on their campuses. I know for sure that we have the highest multicultural greek population in the region.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by Coquiporvida

And to the last post to clarify, it is the southwestern region.

But when you say "southwestern region" and leave out "of Missouri," I'm betting most people had a moment of trying to figure out what Missouri State is doing in Arizona or New Mexico.

[aopirose]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

But when you say "southwestern region" and leave out "of Missouri," I'm betting most people had a moment of trying to figure out what Missouri State is doing in Arizona or New Mexico.

[pbear19]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

But when you say "southwestern region" and leave out "of Missouri," I'm betting most people had a moment of trying to figure out what Missouri State is doing in Arizona or New Mexico.

I'm from MO, and it took me a while to figure out she meant SW region of MO only. Springfield is (I believe) less than 3 hours from Fayetteville AR, and within 4 of Stillwater OK, Columbia MO and Lawrence KS. So it's not crazy isolated within it's 'region', but I guess if the region is SWMO only, then sure. But then there is also only one largish system in Central MO, one in NE MO, one in NW MO, one in SE MO...

[Tinia2]

Originally Posted by cattleprod

Well I had never heard of missouri state until this thread much less their greek system so I doubt they have "the most greek chapters in the southwest region" unless the "southwest region" refers to southwestern missouri.

here is your homework: http://www.missouristate.edu/activities/GreekLife.htm

and from your first posting, you said that you were banned and leaving.
http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...&postcount=513
why the change of mind and the return?
and just which one of those four houses are you a member of over in UT?

[Kansas City]

I attended a regional university in Missouri too. First, I wouldn't say that MoStU has "the most chapters" but maybe the University at Springfield is the largest school in the SW region of Missouri. Second, as you explained in your original post, chapters and Greek life are very different from chapter to chapter and campus to campus so I'm not really sure exactly what you are asking for. At the school I attended and now advise a chapter at, the NPC and IFC chapters were very unified and created a very positive Greek life environment. However, my campus had very few multi-cultural organizations in the mid-90's. Those that did exist had very low membership and seemed to choose not to participate actively with the NPC and IFC groups.

[DSTCHAOS]

Random:

Just finished reading Mizzou's Greek Life page. They definitely keep people informed about what's been going on event and disciplinary action-wise.

[Coquiporvida]

To clarify, I was inquring about the dynamic of greek life as a whole at other colleges and universities. I know my experience as being greek at MSU. I wanted to know other peoples experience. Is there unity, an elitist attitude amoung the greek population as a whole?

And yes, MSU is in the Southwestern region of Mo. Just to clear it all up.

[Coquiporvida]

And I know that Mo is not DEVOID of greek systems. I was saying that in the region many universities like Evangel, CBC, SBU do not allow greek chapters or do not have many greek chapters in general. MO State has the most compared to institutions surrounding us.

[piphiangel314]

There is also UMSL and SLU both representing Greek Life in the Lou as well.

[PANTHERTEKE]

I think the dynamics of Greek Life are the same almost anywhere.

The IFC/NPC groups hang out and associate almost exclusively with themselves, same goes for NPHC and Multicultural orgs. And within the different councils, even more seperations can exist (XYZ and ABC fraternities only hang out with EDF and PQR sororities, etc)

Once in a while there will be a joint philanthropy event between orgs in different councils. On some campuses Homecoming Week may be a joint effort between an IFC and NPC partnered with an NPHC or MGC org, whatever.

Of course the degree of this varies from school to school but it's usually like this.

[Coquiporvida]

Originally Posted by PANTHERTEKE

I think the dynamics of Greek Life are the same almost anywhere.

The IFC/NPC groups hang out and associate almost exclusively with themselves, same goes for NPHC and Multicultural orgs. And within the different councils, even more seperations can exist (XYZ and ABC fraternities only hang out with EDF and PQR sororities, etc)

Once in a while there will be a joint philanthropy event between orgs in different councils. On some campuses Homecoming Week may be a joint effort between an IFC and NPC partnered with an NPHC or MGC org, whatever.

Of course the degree of this varies from school to school but it's usually like this.

I would agree with you. IFC/PHA sororities and fraternities tend to associate only with in themselves and the same is true with other councils as you stated. But from what I've seen (at least at MSU) is that there is an ignorance of these organizations on each side. To be honest (from the Multicultural Greek side) my sisters and I cannot relate on the level of being Greek, to lets say an ADPi here, because #1, our process to get into our respective organizations was different (which is a big deal here) #2 how our organizations are precieved as a whole, and #3 it really comes down to how our organizations are run. The every day to day practice. Ive also seen that there has been a move to "unite" on some level. A move for us as Greeks to understand each other on the general level to understand each other as a whole.Because of course, the one thing that does "unite" us all is the fact that we are all Greek. But again, that is just here at MSU.