Greek Life at YOUR School??

[PANTHERTEKE]

Hey people..

I'm a new poster, but I've been browsing for a while. I've looked around (and yes, used the search button ) but I never really found a thread dedicated to discussing Greek life at one's school. I was just curious as to how Greek Life at other schools are...



I go to FIU (Florida Int'l Univ) in Miami and we have a population of 39,000.

We're mostly a commuter school, although the president has been doing good at trying to straying away from that stereotype. Surprisingly though, we have a VERY active Greek community here.

There are like 10 IFC fraternities and 6 NPC sororities:

NPC:
Alpha Xi Delta
Alpha Omicron Pi
Delta Phi Epsilon
Phi Mu
Phi Sigma Sigma
Sigma Sigma Sigma

IFC:
Beta Theta Pi
Delta Lambda Phi
Lambda Chi Alpha
Phi Gamma Delta
Phi Sigma Kappa
Pi Kappa Alpha
Pi Kappa Phi
Sigma Alpha Mu
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Tau Kappa Epsilon


Anyway, if you want to have an active social life at FIU then you pretty much have no choice than to be affiliated. Also, the Greeks pretty much run the big orgs and clubs at school. SGA, the Student Programming Council, Academy of Leaders, Homecoming, Panther Rage (the spirit club), etc has a HIGH percentage of/are usually governed by Greeks. Not to mention we are very visible on campus because our student center is always packed with people in fraternities and sororities.. we're always tabling, hanging around, and pretty much doing anything on campus. The administration is usually very cooperative with us and realize that we make the college experience ten times better at FIU.

The only think we lack though is housing, since Greek life came on-campus in the 80s and the school requires that the houses be on-campus and be mansions, not really houses, only 2 fraternities have mansions (PIKE and FIJI, http://fiu.edu/~greeks/housing.html).

I'm curious as to how Greek life at other schools is? Especially locally at UM, since I've had people told me that they are transferring over and one of the reasons is because of the Greek life here and how active it is.

[BabyPiNK_FL]

Um dude! I can verify that Panhellenic has NOT chosen any sorority because the schedule for presentations has JUST been sent to me. You need to verify the information that you're putting on the internet. Don't just spew. And the reason we don't have housing is because Panhellenic has never been able to finalize a plan with all of the sororities and the school because not all of the organizations have agreed in the past. Also not all groups have a definite financial plan. We talked with the Ombudsmen several times this past semester regarding these issues. If you want to know next time just ask. And btw, see you at the event on Friday if my boyfriend, your frater, is interested in going.

[AlwaysSAI]

There has been a thread dedicated to sharing the greek orgs on everyone's campus. I don't remember where it is though.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by AlwaysSAI

There has been a thread dedicated to sharing the greek orgs on everyone's campus. I don't remember where it is though.

Here.

[AlwaysSAI]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Here.

Thanks Buddy!

[sigmaceli]

Anyway, if you want to have an active social life at FIU then you pretty much have no choice than to be affiliated.

Coming from someone who had the majority of my success as a non-affiliated woman (I rushed later than most), I really disagree with this statement. It helps, yes, but I had a pretty active social life either way. Especially considering less than 1% of our campus is affiliated.

I just don't want people to get the wrong idea about FIU, and I know my twin-in-crime, BabyPink, feels the same.