Catholic Founded/Based Colleges and Universities

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally posted by sugar and spice
OMG KATH YOU ARE SUCH A BIATCH!!!1!!

I WISH THE KAPPA SIGS WOULD THROW YOU IN THE LAKE.

Me too!

THEEETA, THEEETA.

And to put this a little more on-topic, I think private schools are a little more likely to not have Greek Life because it's easier for them not to. It obviously doesn't hurt some schools - look at Notre Dame.

[PiEp299]

I attended a Catholic founded university that has 3 fraternities and 3 sororities now. It used to be more positive toward greek life until they hired the jackass of a president they have now, who is verrrry anti-Greek and actually was hired partially for that reason.

"and that school would be" Christian Brothers University in Memphis, TN which is 2 hours from where I grew up and went to high school(that school is Catholic High School) in Little Rock, AR.
Which is 15 minutes from where I went to grade school (do you need to know that one too?)

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by PiEp299
I attended a Catholic founded university that has 3 fraternities and 3 sororities now. It used to be more positive toward greek life until they hired the jackass of a president they have now, who is verrrry anti-Greek and actually was hired partially for that reason.

And that school would be?

[WenD08]

Xavier University in New Orleans, the only predominately Black college in the US, has NPHC sororities and fraternities. Xavier University in Cincinnati, a Jesuit school, also has NPHC sororities and at least one fraternity. at XU/Cincy, i don't know about non-NPHC orgs on campus

[Senusret I]

I decided that I would make a listing of Jesuit Colleges and Universities to see which ones have a traditional greek system or not. Since most BGLOs and LGLOs can function through metropolitan chapters, I won't note them. If there is an "unrecognized" chapter of a national GLO on a campus that does NOT have a recognized system, I will note it.


Boston College
Canisius College, YES
College of the Holy Cross
Creighton University, YES
Fairfield University
Fordham University, NO
Georgetown University, NO but has a chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi
Gonzaga University
John Carroll University, YES
Le Moyne College
Loyola College in Maryland
Loyola Marymount University, YES
Loyola University Chicago, YES
Loyola University New Orleans, YES
Marquette University, YES
Regis University, NO
Rockhurst University, YES
Saint Joseph's University, YES
Saint Louis University, YES
Saint Peter's College
Santa Clara University, YES
Seattle University , NO
Spring Hill College
University of Detroit Mercy, YES
University of San Francisco
University of Scranton, NO
Wheeling Jesuit University
Xavier University

Of course this is incomplete, I will edit the post as we get more info. And FYI, I only included Jesuit Universities because 1) the ones that ban them seem to say that frats/sorors are against the Jesuit mission, and 2) because I went to one and worked for one!

[CZAXOTerp]

Having grown up in the area I can confirm:
Loyola College in Maryland NO

Also the College of Notre Dame of Maryland (that's right- CONDOM) is all women and they don't have any GLOs.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by CZAXOTerp

Having grown up in the area I can confirm:
Loyola College in Maryland NO

Also the College of Notre Dame of Maryland (that's right- CONDOM) is all women and they don't have any GLOs.

Do you think they got confused, and protected themselves from GLOs?

[AOIIalum]

Originally Posted by honeychile

Do you think they got confused, and protected themselves from GLOs?

Honey, you owe me a new keyboard!

Since I'm sure I wasn't the only one curious: College of Notre Dame of Maryland

[ADPiLove]

To answer the question about the University of San Diego that was posed, oh, 4 years ago, yes, they do have recognized sororities and fraternities, and are Catholic. But, for being a Catholic university, it is quite liberal at times.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by CZAXOTerp

Having grown up in the area I can confirm:
Loyola College in Maryland NO

Also the College of Notre Dame of Maryland (that's right- CONDOM) is all women and they don't have any GLOs.

Loyola College in Maryland has Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity, but even *that* ran into a lot of resistance from elements of the administration. I can't even imagine getting a recognized national social fraternity or sorority.

[sueali]

By bringing up BYU i was just trying to make the point that it's not jsut a catholic issue, others brought up methodist schools and episcopalian. What is your problem?

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally posted by sueali
By bringing up BYU i was just trying to make the point that it's not jsut a catholic issue, others brought up methodist schools and episcopalian. What is your problem?

I didn't just mean you. Catholic schools are a lot different than a Methodist school, or BYU, or Wheaton, or Bob Jones.

Also, Sensuret, Detroit-Mercy and John Carroll both have "traditional" Greek systems, there are currently active Gamma Phi chapters at both of them.

[Senusret I]

Thanks! I changed it.

[sueali]

I'm not trying to start trouble, but can you explain the difference? We don't have a catholic university in my area.

Catholic schools are a lot different than a Methodist school, or BYU, or Wheaton, or Bob Jones.

[aurora_borealis]

Senusret, I believe there are people from Santa Clara here on GC. I am about to head off to work so I can't search now. If you don't find it I will do a quick look when I get home.

The University has SAE, Sigma CHi, Pika, and Sigma Pi mentioned, I am sure there are more.

I want to say Theta is putting a colony in there, but I could be wrong. One of my sisters went to University of San Francisco, but if there was greek life she never mentioned it.