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Originally posted by queequek
Well, I guess I really made a general assumption here. Hey, phikappapsiman, do you go to Stanford, I assume? How's the Greek System there?
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Yeah, I do...Stanford is not a real "Greek" school. We have 6 housed fraternities, 3 housed sororities, 5 unhoused fraternities, 3 unhoused sororities, 3 BGLO fraternitiess, and 2 BGLO sororities. It used to be big up until the 70's, when I guess that it wasn't "cool" to be in a GLO. And it has never recovered. Our Residential Education Department is really anti-greek, because of all of the negative sterotypes about GLO's (that we are racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-women, you know the rest). So, it's almost impossible for a new chapter to come onto campus, and once one is kicked off for whatever reason, it's gone for good. Some of the "big" fraternity houses are really into image and getting the "right" members (SAE's got Fred Savage of "The Wonder Years" and I think that Tiger Woods went to Sigma Chi before he left Stanford), but really, there are other row-type houses that offer just as much to to to some people that they figure, "Why go Greek"? The Bay Area is SO expensive in terms of off-campus housing that almost all undergraduates choose to live on campus (Hell, even Chelsea Clinton lived on campus all of her time here, although I don't think that she joined a sorority). All in all, we will never be confused with a big state school where either you "Go Greek, or don't go", but those of us in the Greek system enjoy it.
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