When was the best time to be a collegiate Greek?

[TriDeltaSallie]

Originally Posted by 8ff1856

Mid '60s to early '70s when hazing was not a major issue and before risk management costs were out of sight. This was a time when pledges enjoyed learning about the history of their fraternities and there weren't so many "helicopter parents protecting their students sensitivities.

Wasn't this a time of increased anti-Greek sentiment though? I thought the sixties were a rather difficult time for the Greek system in general although perhaps it also depended on the area of the country?

[PhoenixAzul]

I dunno, I think I would have loved to have been active in my chapter around our original founding (1912), just because of the excitement of becoming a "sorority". We, and all of the other fraternities/sororities on campus were "clubs" (basically, Greek life with another name, opperating as fraternities and sororities, without the approval of the administration). And basically little by little we transformed into GLO's. My sorority was one of the last to adopt Greek Letters. We're also missing two sororities that were previously in existence, and a few fraternities. I'd love to go back to that time and see Greek Life as so central to Otterbein's campus core.

[honeychile]

1851-1852.