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Originally Posted by naraht
When I was at Carnegie-Mellon 20 years ago, it was an unwritten rule that the Social Fraternities did not pledge freshman drama majors. I think it was a combination of the fact that they tended not to have a lot of time and drama was the only major where the profs would schedule things that would conflict with normal pledge meeting times. I don't know if anything has changed, but the student activities staff certainly knew about it and didn't stress over it. I have no clue on the Sororities.
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I was at CMU in the 80s and from what I recall, there was a lot of anti-Greek animosity in the College of Fine Arts. The Drama Department only chose about 36 dramats (our term for the Theatre majors) for a freshman class and cut it down at the end of each semester so by the end of sophomore year, it would be whittled down to 18. Some students who got cut from acting would go into a different focus within the department, ie directing, others would leave Carnegie Mellon completely. In any case, the first two years in the Drama Department meant extremely long days, ie building sets, sewing costumes so they would learn all facets of the business. Being a dramat was considered more difficult than being an ECE major.
We all had engineers in our memberships and each of the sororities had at least one voice major, but when I was there, female MT majors were not joining Greek Life.
A few girls from the other departments in CFA had joined but unlike the rest of us from the other colleges within the university who wore letters to class and around campus, they NEVER wore any afffiliation item to classes as the professors had the reputation of being biased.
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