New Omega house at USC Greek Village.

[jitterbug13]

Originally Posted by AXEAM

That could be a good thing.

Originally Posted by Wolfman

P.S. I hear you about the Ape beatdown at SC.

Which one? There have been several the last few years. There may be amosity with the bruhs getting the house among the black fraternities. The Alphas have been staying at raggety @$$ McBride for years. They have alway had pretty decent numbers. When I graduated six years ago, there might have not been even 10 bruhs on the yard, comparied to the others, who had 20+. Numbers started to go up for them after I left (some of it due to Holtz and Spurrier letting football players pledge, Brad Scott didn't) and all of a sudden, they're getting a house. Both the Alphas and Kappas have had several leadership positions on campus and had been more visible until the bruhs started getting their numbers up.

[Wolfman]

Originally Posted by jitterbug13

Which one? There have been several the last few years. There may be amosity with the bruhs getting the house among the black fraternities. The Alphas have been staying at raggety @$$ McBride for years. They have alway had pretty decent numbers. When I graduated six years ago, there might have not been even 10 bruhs on the yard, comparied to the others, who had 20+. Numbers started to go up for them after I left (some of it due to Holtz and Spurrier letting football players pledge, Brad Scott didn't) and all of a sudden, they're getting a house. Both the Alphas and Kappas have had several leadership positions on campus and had been more visible until the bruhs started getting their numbers up.

The last beatdown, I heard, was over something else. Anyway, the house had little to do with the status of ZZ per se but with the fact that Omega has sone prominent bruhs in Columbia who are connected with finance and have helped guide the recent Omega administration in economic development efforts. It's a about that "mean green" and the willingness to organize to get something done. It don't matter if the last ten SGA presidents were Nupes or Alphas and they had large numbers on the yard, if the nationals aren't willing to get up off some some cash, get a loan,and bruhs on the local level organize a housing corporation, you won't have a sorority/fraternity-owned house on any Greek row. In essence, it's about leadership and taking risks.

[jitterbug13]

I was thinking on the undergrad level, but I haven't heard about what you just said. There are a lot of proment Omegas in Columbia and SC in general (ex. Rep. Clyburn). But you are right that if you don't have the organizational stuff together, it doesn't mean a hill of beans.

And you know that SC produces a lot of Omegas/Kappas/Deltas/AKAs.