Northwestern (Evanston) IFC Recruitment 2007

[Sigma_Chi_We$]

Sigma Chi Headquarters is also in Evanston, Illinois. It is a very built up area being by Chicago, so most of the Greek houses may look like dorms. It is an amazing campus to visit. The first time I visited, after years of seeing a picture of our HQ house, I couldn't believe that it was among tall buildings (as the pictures I've seen make it look like a southern style mansion). Although it is a really big HQ, it is a very built up/congested area. Definitely a cool campus to visit! Not being familiar with the area, it was really hard to find the Greek houses, but some letters were on "dorm-like buildings".

[ChildoftheHorn]

The Fraternity Houses all have the same look because of how the university had all the fraternities build at the same time and had them built according to what they would have liked. If you look at the sorority houses in the south end of campus, it is the same type of thing. In the case of the sororities, they don't look like dorms nearly as much. Also, the houses change over from one organization to another when one leaves - another comes in... There are some fraternities that have actual houses, like Zeta Beta Tau and Theta Chi.

There are not really normal houses for the sororities, some do have "unofficial" houses off campus that are owned by the members of that org - some fraternities also have this.

I live in a small dorm in the first fraternity quad that most people think is a fraternity, so it makes for good fun in the beginning of the year when freshmen stop by. We had a large group of people waiting outside the first friday of new student week waiting to get in for what they thought was a party. Really, it was just my friends and I meeting up to go to a party. Needless to say, we let the kids come in for a sec thinking they were meeting someone and found out that they were already drunk - then sent them back out.

It is all just because all the buildings in the fraternity quads look the same and a few organizations do not have large signs out in the front of the building.

[alum]

We did official college visits to both Northwestern and Notre Dame. I loved Northwestern, both academics and campus architecture. The college applicant liked NU but preferred Notre Dame. Ultimately both were eliminated from the list due to their cold climate location.

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by alum

We did official college visits to both Northwestern and Notre Dame. I loved Northwestern, both academics and campus architecture. The college applicant liked NU but preferred Notre Dame. Ultimately both were eliminated from the list due to their cold climate location.

I too almost went there, to their journalism school. Ended up staying closer to home, but I was a big fan of the school.