Fraternity members indicted in student death

[EE-BO]

Tejas House is still there I think- but they have never tried to associate themselves with Greek Life. I knew one of the guys from one of my classes and he told me that it was basically a house where friends of current residents were invited to move in as guys graduated. No ritual or pledge period to speak of. A nice historic house too.

Beta Kappa (business fraternity- co-ed) used to have the house next to ADPi, but that changed hands a couple of times and is currently in Acacia's hands. I am not aware of BK having a property at present.

As for your question about other councils, I just checked and at the bottom of the Greek Life page on the UT website there are other councils listed besides the IFC (national fraternities and the list I was looking at last night) and UPC (representing the 14 national NPC-affiliated sororities). They are as follows- with portions of their mission statements in quotes to indicate who they represent,

NPHC- fraternities and sororities

"The National Pan-Hellenic Council at The University of Texas at Austin is the governing body for the nine historically African American Greek organizations. Seven of these organizations are currently affiliated with Greek Life and Education."

TAPC- Texas Asian Pan-Hellenic Council

"The Texas Asian Pan-Hellenic Council is the governing body for three Asian-interest organizations at The University of Texas at Austin." [Note- later on in their mission statement, it is indicated these are all sororities.]

UGC- United Greek Council

"The United Greek Council was created by the predominantly Latino/a based fraternal organizations at The University of Texas at Austin in the spring 2000 semester."

I must confess I was not completely aware of the extent of this- so that is new information for me.

However, I also just now looked over the list of all registered Greek organizations for all of these councils plus affiliates without council representation- and I can see off the top of my head that there are 3 GLOs I am aware of that are not registered.

That includes the organization being discussed here. I checked the discipline records online as well to ensure they are not listed because they were kicked off when this incident was first reported, but there is no record of any such action.

So it would appear this GLO was never registered with the University in any capacity. And I would note as well that none of the councils I mentioned above cover Asian-American fraternities of which there are reputedly many (2 of which I know about.)

[tallgreekalum]

Originally Posted by EE-BO

Tejas House is still there I think- but they have never tried to associate themselves with Greek Life. I knew one of the guys from one of my classes and he told me that it was basically a house where friends of current residents were invited to move in as guys graduated. No ritual or pledge period to speak of. A nice historic house too.

Beta Kappa (business fraternity- co-ed) used to have the house next to ADPi, but that changed hands a couple of times and is currently in Acacia's hands. I am not aware of BK having a property at present.

As for your question about other councils, I just checked and at the bottom of the Greek Life page on the UT website there are other councils listed besides the IFC (national fraternities and the list I was looking at last night) and UPC (representing the 14 national NPC-affiliated sororities). They are as follows- with portions of their mission statements in quotes to indicate who they represent,

NPHC- fraternities and sororities

"The National Pan-Hellenic Council at The University of Texas at Austin is the governing body for the nine historically African American Greek organizations. Seven of these organizations are currently affiliated with Greek Life and Education."

TAPC- Texas Asian Pan-Hellenic Council

"The Texas Asian Pan-Hellenic Council is the governing body for three Asian-interest organizations at The University of Texas at Austin." [Note- later on in their mission statement, it is indicated these are all sororities.]

UGC- United Greek Council

"The United Greek Council was created by the predominantly Latino/a based fraternal organizations at The University of Texas at Austin in the spring 2000 semester."

I must confess I was not completely aware of the extent of this- so that is new information for me.

However, I also just now looked over the list of all registered Greek organizations for all of these councils plus affiliates without council representation- and I can see off the top of my head that there are 3 GLOs I am aware of that are not registered.

That includes the organization being discussed here. I checked the discipline records online as well to ensure they are not listed because they were kicked off when this incident was first reported, but there is no record of any such action.

So it would appear this GLO was never registered with the University in any capacity. And I would note as well that none of the councils I mentioned above cover Asian-American fraternities of which there are reputedly many (2 of which I know about.)

Thanks. I have a pretty good list of national fraternities. If you tell me the names of the ones not registered, I could tell you if they are on it.