Ivy League Schools Chapters

[moe.ron]

Sigma Phi Epsilon's ivy league chapters:

Cornell - NY Beta
Columbia - NY Phi
Dartmouth - NH Alpha
UPenn - PA Delta
Yale - Yale University SEC (Colony)

[JerzeeBoy26]

Betarulz forgot to mention our Alpha Alpha colony at Columbia University which started this spring with 33 founding fathers, including many varsity athletes and campus leaders. If Dartmouth wasn't against letting fraternities back on campus we would have been back there years ago as it is the largest (in terms of roll) of our northeast chapters. Even though they have been gone for 9 years, they STILL own their chapter house. A sorority lives there now I think

[Greekgrrl]

Kappa Alpha Theta has had chapters at all the Ivy League schools and all but one is still active.

Cornell University -- Iota chapter
Yale University -- Epsilon Tau chapter
Harvard University -- Zeta Xi chapter
Dartmouth College -- Epsilon Kappa chapter -- closed
University of Pennsylvania -- Beta Eta chapter
Columbia University -- Epsilon Upsilon chapter
Princeton University -- Epsilon Mu chapter
Brown University -- Alpha Epsilon chapter

Thetas are smart!

Greekgrrl

[Munchkin03]

I would suspect that AKA and APhiA have chapters at all Ivy League schools. In fact, the Alphas' Alpha Chapter was at Cornell. The process for colonising a NPHC group on campus is completely different from NPC--for example, the Harvard chapter of AKA is city-wide (MIT and Wellesley).

Beta no longer has a chapter at Brown. I have seen pictures of the house--it was beautiful, but torn down for a parking lot. During the 1950s, the administration was hard on the fraternities to get rid of their discrimination clauses, and Beta may have been a casualty of that. Also, there were events on campus during the 1940s to rival "Animal House". Pledges died, rival fraternities engaged in ice-pick fights, etc. In fact, the University built a large quadrangle to bring the houses on campus.

Beta Chapter of AOPi was at Pembroke College (the coordinate women's college of Brown). The administration of the college banned sororities before WWI because they were deemed anti-intellectual and elitist. Enough clubs existed until the women's college merged with the University in 1969 to duplicate the function of sorority life. Theta was also at Pembroke before that, but did not recolonize until the mid 1980s; the first two sororities at Brown were Alpha Chi Omega and Alpha Kappa Alpha.

KDU/DU is currently inactive.

2003...Greek Life is pretty interesting here. I'm in a sorority, and it's not the center of my life; but I know plenty of people who socialize totally within certain groups. It's as big or negligible as you want it to be. The fraternities have parties, but so does everyone else. We're all pretty community service-minded; so being in a Greek group doesn't make you a major player in philanthropy here. Our most famous alums--Raymond Hood, JFK Jr, Ted Turner, Chris Berman--were all fraternity men.


Today we have:
Alpha Chi Omega
Kappa Alpha Theta
Alpha Kappa Alpha
Delta Sigma Theta

Sigma Chi
Phi Kappa Psi
Alpha Epsilon Pi
Theta Delta Chi
Alpha Delta Phi (co-ed)
Zeta Delta Xi (local co-ed)
Delta Phi
Delta Tau (local)
Alpha Phi Alpha
Omega Psi Phi

[queequek]

Originally posted by Munchkin03
Our most famous alums--Raymond Hood, JFK Jr, Ted Turner, Chris Berman--were all fraternity men.


Today we have:
Alpha Chi Omega
Kappa Alpha Theta
Alpha Kappa Alpha
Delta Sigma Theta

Sigma Chi
Phi Kappa Psi
Alpha Epsilon Pi
Theta Delta Chi
Alpha Delta Phi (co-ed)
Zeta Delta Xi (local co-ed)
Delta Phi
Delta Tau (local)
Alpha Phi Alpha
Omega Psi Phi

Raymond Hood, we have somewhat ritual for him. FYI, he was the architect for modern skyscraper: he designed the Chicago Tribune, Chicago and Rockefeller Center, NYC. Everytime we pass by those buildings, we just whisper "a Theta Delt's building".

By the way, how big is the population of Brown's greek system? I tried to access our Zeta Charge, but they don't have a working site.

[XOMichelle]

What about other good schools in other parts of the country? Like Northwestern, Duke, Stanford, the University of Chicago? Or maybe smaller schools like Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Wesylean? What are their greek systems like?
-M

[JerzeeBoy26]

Williams and Amherst eliminated their fraternities in the 70's. Beta had very large chapters at both schools. very sad state of affairs. they may have some underground stuff

[bruinaphi]

I have a sister at Amherst and they have locals, but I have not heard that any of them are underground chapters of Beta. The two she talks about are the fraternity all of the football players belong to and the co-ed fraternity (Psi U, I believe).

She is an athlete and it seems that the sports teams function as fraternities and sororities for social purposes. They have formals, party together and live together.

[BSUPhiSig'92]

Phi Sigma Kappa is at Cornell and UPenn.

A good friend of mine went to Swarthmore. Greek Life is really small there. We used to have a chapter at Swat, but alas...

[sugar and spice]

Originally posted by XOMichelle
What about other good schools in other parts of the country? Like Northwestern, Duke, Stanford, the University of Chicago? Or maybe smaller schools like Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Wesylean? What are their greek systems like?
-M

Northwestern and Duke both have thriving Greek systems, I believe. Stanford's is a bit smaller but also strong. The University of Chicago's is not recognized by the university (I think), and is fairly small.

I don't know about the other schools, but would imagine most of them have pretty small Greek systems if they have them at all. Small liberal arts schools (that are not in the South) tend to be rather anti-Greek, from my experience.

[queequek]

Originally posted by XOMichelle
What about other good schools in other parts of the country? Like Northwestern, Duke, Stanford, the University of Chicago? Or maybe smaller schools like Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Wesylean? What are their greek systems like?
-M

Amherst has a weird Greek system. We had our Mu Deuteron Charge there active until the stupid school council decided that they wanted to ban Greek System. But also I happen to know which fraternities go underground at Amherst College.

As for Stanford, I've heard that they used to have a strong Greek System, back in 1980s. Problem nowadays, once your chapter get kicked off campus, they pretty much done at Stanford.
Our Eta Deuteron Charge is one of the biggest "elite" house at Stanford, along with three other houses (Kappa Sigma, Sigma Chi and SAE)

We still have our Delta Triton Charge active at Northwestern. Not too strong Greek System, I'm assuming by looking at the IFC chapters.

Anybody knows anything from Bowdoin College? Our council decided to shut down our Eta Charge after they were forced to be co-ed fraternity, back in early 1990s. Big loss ...
Same with Epsilon Charge at William and Mary, we chosed to shut down our Charge because of the Greek System policy changes.

[imsohappythatiama]

Kappa Kappa Gamma is proud of its Ivy League Chapters--all but Columbia and Brown!

Cornell University--Psi Chapter

Yale University--Zeta Xi Chapter

Harvard University--new colony (will be the Eta Theta Chapter)

Dartmouth College--Epsilon Chi Chapter

University of Pennsylvania--Beta Alpha Chapter(currently silent)

Princeton University--Zeta Phi Chapter

[Munchkin03]

Originally posted by queequek
Raymond Hood, we have somewhat ritual for him. FYI, he was the architect for modern skyscraper: he designed the Chicago Tribune, Chicago and Rockefeller Center, NYC. Everytime we pass by those buildings, we just whisper "a Theta Delt's building".

By the way, how big is the population of Brown's greek system? I tried to access our Zeta Charge, but they don't have a working site.

I'm an architecture major, so I know all about Raymond Hood. There is a picture in our archives of him and the rest of the Thete brothers in their house.

Greek Life here is pretty smallish...not major, but not so ignored. Like I said, Greeks here are pretty segregated in one area of campus, so it looks like it's much bigger than it really is. Also, Greeks do not dominate community service or student government like they do at other schools. Basically, it's another activity like being in Amnesty International. No real biggie.

The Thete chapter here is primarily the football team/econ majors. Most chapters here don't have active websites.

[FuzzieAlum]

A sorority lives there now I think

That would be AXD! Dartmouth is doing their best to get rid of single-sex GLOs or make them go coed (nothing against coed Greeks myself, but why not allow students to make that choice for themselves?).

We also have a chapter at Penn State. I don't know about inactive chapters at other Ivies.

[queequek]

Originally posted by FuzzieAlum
That would be AXD! Dartmouth is doing their best to get rid of single-sex GLOs or make them go coed (nothing against coed Greeks myself, but why not allow students to make that choice for themselves?).

We also have a chapter at Penn State. I don't know about inactive chapters at other Ivies.

That's not good, as we might want to kill our Omicron Deuteron Charge if Dartmouth goes co-ed. This happened before at Bowdoin College. That sucks.

And I think UPenn is THE Ivy League school instead of Penn State.