new to greek life. don't fully understand the concept of families.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by pacman529

I totally get what you're saying; I just wanted to get an overview of how this stuff works if it's something other fraternities and sororities do.

Some do, though different orgs may well do it differently.

From my experience, this seems to be a relatively recent thing. Back in the dark ages when I pledged, we had big brothers, but we didn't think in terms of things like families or family trees, grand-littles or grand-bigs or the like. I'd never heard of that until GreekChat.