Greek life at the Southern Ivies

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

And yet it's a concept that has been around for at least 50 years or so. In the late 50s/early 60s, Vanderbilt invited four other Southern private schools -- Southern Methodist, Rice, Duke, and Tulane -- to form a new athletic conference: a "Southern Ivy League" (also called the "Magnolia League"). While there was some interest for a while, it never came to pass. SMU and Rice didn't want to lose their share of Cotton Bowl income, and Duke was not willing to forgo its traditional rivalry with the University of North Carolina. Since that time, the term "Southern Ivies" has been used widely in the South, though without an established definition or list of schools, to refer to schools that can be seen as Southern counterparts to the (northern) Ivy League. Sometimes it is used to to refer only to private schools, sometimes public schools like UVa or UNC (both included in Richard Moll's original 1985 list of "public ivies").

Too bad that your lifelong confinement to the northeast has led to ignorance and giggles.

This would have made so much sense to me. I didn't know it had been tried.

[tallgreekalum]

Originally Posted by Nanners52674

No I live in Connecticut, have my whole 21 years and I personally have never heard tonic used to mean club soda. . . I am however very familiar with wicked, jimmies, frappes, and my two personal favorites from high school packy and cocked. . .

That's because much of Conn isn't really New England
Tonic-Flavored carbonated water (cola, root beer, moxie(a whole 'nother story etc.

Soda- we mix it with whiskey.

Pop- what we call our father (pronounced fah-thuh)

Grinder- a sandwich made on a long bun(you might call it a sub, po' boy etc) also known as a spucky

Packie- where you go to buy 'naries (be-ah)

Bulkie- a roll used to make sandwiches or served with butter for breakfast.

Bubbler- a water fountain

Pickup-what we do with the opposite sex on Sat nt.

Milk Shake- milk and chocolate syrup, shaken

Frappe (Frap) add ice cream to the shake

Jimmies- you put them on top of ice cream,

In the immortal words of Winston Churchill, "we are one people, separated by a common language"

And yes, we've heard of the "southern ivies" Vandy, Duke, Wake Forest, Emory, etc.

[oncegreek]

There are plenty of people in California who refer to Harvard as the "Stanford of the East," and MIT as the CalTech of the east. I won't even get started on what folks from USC and UCLA say about each other... or folks from Northern and Southern California.

However, I can vouch for the fact that on beautiful, sunny days in January (perfect sun, surf, temps in the 70's) waaay back in the eighties, at least a few students at UCSB would raise the old Corona bottles in a toast, and say,
"You can keep Harvard...... we have the beach."