Catholic Founded/Based Colleges and Universities

[scuthetagirl]

Originally posted by LadyBug103
This may not be the appropriate forum for this Question, but I'm hoping that it is...so here it goes!

I live in an area where there are an abundance of Catholic founded colleges and universities. None of these institutions support Greek Letter Organizations. Many even state on their websites under "campus organizations" that they do not support Greek organizations because of the exclusivity of the nature of the groups. I was wondering if this is consistent with all Catholic Institutions or if it is just the geographical area. Does anyone here attend a Catholic founded university that is in a GLO? I know that other denominational based universities support GLO's such as Methodist (That's the only one that I know of actually). Does anyone have any insight into this topic?

I don't know if anyone's said anything about this, so I'll just respond. I go to Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, CA. We used to have a Greek system that was started/maintained/supported by the school, but it got kicked off campus, so now we're not affiliated. But I'm still a Greek at a Catholic University.

[IheartAphi]

I think the size of the school plays a decision. My parents went to Belmont Abbey in NC (Catholic). The school was already very small and having GLO kinda divided the school (my dad's opinion) While everyone would go to parties, groups would often be mean and cruel about pledges

My Aunt was president of the Sig Ep Sister group (Golden Hearts) She black balled my mom, her sister, and her best friend all because they were dating Sig Eps (My dad and my mom's friends husband). Its not a big deal now, but it really hurt my mom at the time. All the girls in all the little sister organizations treated them differently and were snobby. Then the sister group got mad at my dad because they would not break up with the "black balled" pledges.

That was in the late 70's and things have changed. They have small local groups that are made to be more inclusive. I think they have a few small fraternities that don't have campus housing. I think they have changed the system to fit the size of the campus. Everything happens off campus, except on St Patricks day the school has a big party with beer (Gotta love being Catholic)