Ivy League Schools Chapters

[AOcutiePi2002]

Hi everyone,

Greek life here at Cornell is huge!!!! We currently have 13 NPC sororities, around 38 IFC houses and 14 MGLC chapters.

for more info on any of these, go to:

http://www.dos.cornell.edu/dos/fsa/

~Lacey

[Rudey]

Originally posted by XOMichelle
What about other good schools in other parts of the country? Like Northwestern, Duke, Stanford, the University of Chicago? Or maybe smaller schools like Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Wesylean? What are their greek systems like?
-M

University of Chicago
-Sororities:
Delta Gamma
Alpha Omicron Pi
Kappa Alpha Theta

-Fraternities
Alpha Epsilon Pi
Alpha Delta Phi
Phi Gamma Delta
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Psi Upsilon
Delta Upsilon
Pi Kappa Alpha
Lambda Phi Epsilon
Phi Delta Theta
Delta Kappa Epsilon

The sororities range from 40-60 girls. Only 5 of the fraternities are housed and they average at about 25 brothers per house I would estimate with FIJI being the largest by far (over 40). The unhoused fraternities are smaller and average between 15-20 guys.

The school's Greek Sing was the first in the nation I believe. Last year they started Greek Week again. Panhell is usually well organized. Alumni IFC was formed last summer and undergrad IFC is being currently formed. The school's recognition of greeks is not hammered out. Many of the fraternities have existed before the school has and one is even rumoured to rent a building to our university. The school recognizes something called Greek Council and is trying to get all fraternities/sororities to sign some sort of contract with them to get even further recognition (basically use of copy machines and crap nobody needs) with no GLO signing up.

-Rudey

[breathesgelatin]

Originally posted by XOMichelle
What about other good schools in other parts of the country? Like Northwestern, Duke, Stanford, the University of Chicago? Or maybe smaller schools like Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Wesylean? What are their greek systems like?
-M

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Williams eliminated GLOs in the late 60s or 70s?

[g41965]

DU has had chapters at many schools mentioned.

Williams (our founding chapter) 1834-1862. 1883-1965 chapter became Garfield House when Fraternities banned, Williams Administration is dead set against allowing Greeks back on, the administration also claims students don't want Greek life, I'd like to see an indepedent survey done, I'd bet 20-30 % of students would join. I'm sure DU would devote resources to a revival if allowed.

Amherst 1847-1862, 1870-1970,chapter went local as Delta Upsilon Delta until Amherst forced Fraternities off campus in 1984, I don' think DUD stayed on, off campus ,as did X Psi, PSI U etc.

Wesleyan 1850-1852, revived 1919 from Omega Phi local, withdrew in 1953 over dispute about initiating an African American, local Delta Sigma 1953-1967, joined KA (northern branch) 1967-1980 went local as Omega Kappa Alpha 1908-? now inactive?.

Middlebury 1856-1991 closed when school made chapters coed, may still exist as local off campus.

Colby 1858-1861, 1878-1984 school banned fraternity membership under pain of expulsion, chapter closed.

Bowdoin 1859-1861, 1892-1952 left DU due to dispute over initiating an afro american. Existed as Delta Sigma local until 1998 when administration closed fraternities.

Swarthmore 1891- present.

Northwestern 1880 -present

Colgate 1865-present

Chicago 1901-present

Stanford 1896-1987 closed due to hazing & raising hell, revival attepted 1994-1996, possible revival being looked at.

I don't think students at these colleges are as anti greek as the Prof's & administration. The tide will switch back, look at Princeton and Harvard at the current time. The good GLO's will prosper, old line organizations DU, Zeta Psi, ADPHI, etc better not assume a revival in Greek interest on these campi will automatically result in revival of their oldest chapters just because of their historic strenghth. Sig Ep is a good example of a newer GLO increasing market share and quality.

[aephi alum]

AEPhi has, or has had, chapters at the following schools:

Ivy League:
Barnard (Columbia) - Alpha
Columbia Univ. Teachers College - Gamma (does this count?)
UPenn - Theta
Cornell - Kappa
Yale - Beta Delta

Ivy+:
MIT - Beta Epsilon
Northwestern - Omicron
Duke - Alpha Epsilon
Carnegie Mellon - Alpha Nu
hmmm... who else would be considered Ivy+...

Munchkin03 - AKA actually has an MIT chapter that is recognized by the school. I believe it predated all the NPC sororities.

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by JerzeeBoy26
Williams and Amherst eliminated their fraternities in the 70's. Beta had very large chapters at both schools. very sad state of affairs. they may have some underground stuff

Williams eliminated their greeks in the 60s and Amherst did so in the 80s. Amherst does have an underground system with three houses. Williams has a Nazi-like attitude to greeks. They will persecute and expell.

[Munchkin03]

Originally posted by aephi alum
Munchkin03 - AKA actually has an MIT chapter that is recognized by the school. I believe it predated all the NPC sororities.

Which they share with Harvard, which has not recognized sororities, and Wellesley, which does not have a Greek system. So, it is Cambridge/Wellesley-wide.

On a side note, I don't see Brown expanding its Greek system at all.

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by Munchkin03
Which they share with Harvard, which has not recognized sororities until recently...

Harvard does not recognize sororities. The greek system there is growing in spite of Harvard's stubborn policies.

[Buttonz]

Sigma Delta Tau Chapters at Ivy League schools...

Cornell University ALPHA
University of Pennsylvania BETA
Columbia University GAMMA TAU
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and the best things is that all three are active chapters!

And SDT chapters at the 'better' schools...

Northwestern University Sigma
Boston University ALPHA XI
New York University ALPHA RHO
Brandeis University DELTA GAMMA

However out of these four only Boston U and Brandeis are still active

(information on active chapters were taken from the SDT website)

[ShaunaF01]

Alpha Phi only has chapters at Cornell (Delta) and UPenn (Eta Iota) dang...we better going

[Not a Mezzo]

We've got active chapters at Johns Hopkins (Gamma Tau), Northwestern (Kappa Iota), Auburn (Alpha Mu), and the College of William and Mary (Gamma Alpha).

There are inactive chapters (don't know chapter designation, can anybody help me on that?) at Swarthmore and Duke.

I think that's it for us.

[DeltaSigStan]

Colombia (Beta), rechartered not too long ago

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by Not a Mezzo
We've got active chapters at ...Auburn (Alpha Mu)...

Auburn is an "almost-Ivy?"

I would use the top 20 from the top 50 lists of U.S. News' National Universities-Doctoral and Liberal Arts Colleges-Bachelors to get an approximation of Ivy League caliber.

[kddani]

Originally posted by russellwarshay
Auburn is an "almost-Ivy?"

I was thinking that too...... I don't know anything about Auburn besides greek stuff... so I looked it up online at US News and World Report, and it's second tier for National Universities. Pretty decent, but not quite "ivy". Carnegie Mellon, which is up the street from me, is ranked 21 and is probably a little closer to being Ivy. They have a pretty decent sized greek system.

/hijack

[aephi alum]

Originally posted by Munchkin03
Which they share with Harvard, which has not recognized sororities, and Wellesley, which does not have a Greek system. So, it is Cambridge/Wellesley-wide.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the MIT AKA chapter has members who attend Harvard or Wellesley. But that chapter is recognized by MIT as a student organization, which by definition means that at least half the members are MIT students.