Greek Social Life - Then and Now

[vtgreekalum]

It certainly seems as if there is a significant gap between the perception of things "now" by some and the reality of it as reported by current or recent students.

As for my "thens":

Mixer themes: Barn Party, Jungle Party, Boxers and Blazers, Revenge of the Nerds (several variations on this one), Hawaiian.
Sex: People actually dated one on one, no "group dates" like seemed to become popular in the 90"s; few random hook-ups, but lots of people sleeping with their boyfriends/girlfriends - it wasn't the 50's after all.
Drugs: Beer, Grain alchohol, little wine - unless you were on a date. Not much pot and nothing harder - Tech was pretty conservative that way. Coke and LSD was
in high school, but that may just have been Fairfax County.
Risky Behavior: It may seem mild now, but we had a pledge who cut the bra off a passed out drunk girl without removing her shirt and then kept it as a trophy for awhile. Rarely a drunk guy would run naked throug the house.
One thing no one mentioned was the apparent disappearance of the Fraternity little sister programs. We had 20-25 girls who were mostly independents -usually the girlfriends or relatives of brothers and their friends. They helped decorate the house,
went to intramural events and rush events, got to wear letters, paid no dues; like "cheerleaders" for the Fraternity. There was nothing overtly sexual about the sitiuation, although the Sororities we held functions with usually requested they not come.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by vtgreekalum

One thing no one mentioned was the apparent disappearance of the Fraternity little sister programs. We had 20-25 girls who were mostly independents -usually the girlfriends or relatives of brothers and their friends. They helped decorate the house,
went to intramural events and rush events, got to wear letters, paid no dues; like "cheerleaders" for the Fraternity. There was nothing overtly sexual about the sitiuation, although the Sororities we held functions with usually requested they not come.

Some of our fraternities had little sisters, but they had a rushing and pledging program much like the sororities did - except, of course, they were voted on by the other little sisters AND the fraternity brothers. In one fraternity, almost all the little sisters were also sisters of the same sorority; in 2 other fraternities, the LSs weren't allowed to belong to a sorority at all. They paid dues, although not nearly as much as sorority dues. Sometimes they dated the brothers but sometimes not.

They were not allowed to attend mixers the fraternities had with sororities, as those were closed parties for the fraternity and sorority only and the sorority could have gotten a rush infraction for having nonmembers at a closed function. As far as open fraternity parties or fraternity formals, of course LSs attended those.

Lots of sorority women (then and now) get their panties in a bunch over little sisters, but I never had a problem with them. It's not like they lived in the fraternity house or something and the fraternity brothers weren't ordered to date them. For some women, it was a good option.

[Tom Earp]

Originally Posted by vtgreekalum

It certainly seems as if there is a significant gap between the perception of things "now" by some and the reality of it as reported by current or recent students.

As for my "thens":

Mixer themes: Barn Party, Jungle Party, Boxers and Blazers, Revenge of the Nerds (several variations on this one), Hawaiian.
Sex: People actually dated one on one, no "group dates" like seemed to become popular in the 90"s; few random hook-ups, but lots of people sleeping with their boyfriends/girlfriends - it wasn't the 50's after all.
Drugs: Beer, Grain alchohol, little wine - unless you were on a date. Not much pot and nothing harder - Tech was pretty conservative that way. Coke and LSD was
in high school, but that may just have been Fairfax County.
Risky Behavior: It may seem mild now, but we had a pledge who cut the bra off a passed out drunk girl without removing her shirt and then kept it as a trophy for awhile. Rarely a drunk guy would run naked throug the house.
One thing no one mentioned was the apparent disappearance of the Fraternity little sister programs. We had 20-25 girls who were mostly independents -usually the girlfriends or relatives of brothers and their friends. They helped decorate the house,
went to intramural events and rush events, got to wear letters, paid no dues; like "cheerleaders" for the Fraternity. There was nothing overtly sexual about the sitiuation, although the Sororities we held functions with usually requested they not come.

LOl, you pretty well hit the nail on the head!

Big things at my school, were pit partys. These were strip mines for coal in SE Kansas which proved very fun.
Large plastic trash cans with purple passion or hunch punch made on the scene.

Parties were held out side of the houses as there was no drinking inside them.

Places were rented and while not classy, they were fun places: the Parkview, Road House and others that rented to college Greeks and made money.

Run outs were a big thing where a Fraternity and a Sorority would get together after meetings on Tuesday nights and go out to mingle.

Kansas at that time was 18 year old drinking age which helped!


LXA at one time had The Cresent Girls who were like big sisters. They had their own shingle with their names on them and were very cool. They had to be voted on to get in and was very prestigious for them to have thier names on them. I have one that will go to the chapter as part of our history.

National decided some years back to discontinue them as there was at the time a push to intermingle male and females. They felt it may threaten the Male only status.

Some times I miss the good old days when things were much more simple.