Local sororities and brother groups

[Tom Earp]

Being a local can be very tough unless you are very strong! My school is while not anti Greek is tough.
My LXA Chapter help start a local Soro. on our campus. They had a chance to affiliate with Phi Mu. They thought they were bigger than. Unfortunatly, they are no longer on campus!
But in rebutal, I can also say the ADP is no longer there! I just found out the the KD chapter closed after 3 yrs.
This now again leaves us with 3 Soros. AGD, ASA, and Tri-Sigs. This a Kansas State U with 6500 students. I look at other Kansas State U.s that hve less enrollement with more Greek Organizations on campus. I for one am always glad to see a new house on campus. This is the only way Greeks will grow!
Remember, I have been off campus since 1967.

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Tom Earp LX Z#1
Pittsburg State U. (Kansas)

[KTE Kitten]

I'm a memember of a local sorrity of Kappa Tau Epsilon. Also called the "little sisters to the Tekes". TKE was established on our campus in the 60's and they had a little sister organization called "the order of Diana"...in 1990 we switched the order of their letters and made them our own. We are an entirely seperate organization from them now, but we are still very close to them and do many community service and social activities with them.

[cmichelle]

I'm part of a group that is starting a new local sorority on our campus. We don't have any local fraternities; that's kinda disappointing! I came from a smaller school where they only had 3 of each, and they tended to pair up, but nothing was official.

[chideltjen]

we were actually a lil sister program in the 60s to Delta Chi (hense the backwards letters...) We still have close ties with them and tend to refer to them as our "founders" or "brothers" but we don't do EVERYTHING with them. But we love our lil sweetheart Cliff.

[Damaris]

I'm a Co-Founding Mother of a sorority in NYC. We were founded in 1995 and although the Founding Mother's had a strong bond with the brothers of Alpha Phi Delta at my school, we were never considered as being affiliated with them.

We've actually tried very hard to not affiliate with ourselves with any fraternity for fear that our organization will lose its own identity.

[AlphaXiGirl31]

Sigma Nu isn't officially Alpha Xi Delta's brother fraternity--they helped us way back when we were founded, but it's not an official brother/sister thing (Alpha Xi Delta DOES NOT allow that).

[DHgirl]

Tau Delta Phi is kind of our local's Adam's rib. Rumor has it--history for the DH chapter of TDP and DH (my sorority) can't seem to figure out exactly what happened--lesson to all, keep good books--but the gist is sometime back in the 80's, or so, TDP national got word the chapter at my school was pledging women. TDP, not being particularly co-ed, kicked them out and the DH chapter created a local sorority in their chapter name. Of course, all this has since blurred--six years ago, the last remaining active totally dissociated us from TDP and "reformed" the sorority. She even started the pledge class naming over again. And not being particularly fond of TDP, cut them out of the picture. So technically, TDP is our brother fraternity, but we're pretty much socially associated with the Zeta Psi boys in this current era.

I'm kind of with those sororities out there who don't want to be associated with a particular fraternity--I like the idea of having our own identity. But when there are only three greek orgs on a small campus, I guess it's really easy to see whose dating who. I still cringe when I hear my sorority refered to as property of the Zete's--particularly when it comes from a TDP or a Zete.

[texas*princess]

I have read on some local sororities' websites that their local sororities were formed after certain fraternities headquarters decided to do away with "little sister" organizations. Maybe that's one way how local sororities had "brother" fraternities?

[QTPiLady]

Omega Tau Pi are the sisters of Upsilon Phi Upsilon we were founded 4 years after them by them...

[jonespichi]

us pi chi girls have had the same brother frat since there creation in 1967. we have parties w/ them but also w/ other frats too. we throw a co-alumni weekend and have songs about eachother. i think most of it has to do w/ having a big and little brother. it's a nice piece of our history that i enjoy about pi chi, but i don't think it's an essential part of being a sorority or fraternity. there have been tons of PDC/ITK marriages so i guess you could say we get along pretty well. lol

Brothers of FDQ helped our founding sisters create FGP, but I don't think we neccessarily consider them our brother fraternity. We hang out with DUs a lot, but I'm pretty sure the same applies with them as it does with FDQ.