Legacy

[TPARose]

I know this is more of a "Greek Life" Sort of post, but considering I have been unsuccessful getting into that forum, i thought I might post it here intsead.

What sort of Legacy do you all have??

I have...
Alpha Delta Pi (sister)
Alpha Phi (Aunt)
Zeta Tau Alpha (Aunt)
Kappa Alpha Theta (Cousin)

Im just curious!!

[AlphaChiGirl]

Originally posted by KillarneyRose:
Have you noticed that greeks there are unusually visible compared to the other Ivies?

That's true. With the exception of Dartmouth and Cornell (both of which are in very small, isolated areas), the Greek scene is low-key--for various reasons Princeton and Harvard don't even publicly recognize their fraternities and sororities--Princeton has "eating clubs" and Harvard is on the "house system", which are supposedly Greek alternatives. Columbia and Penn are both in bigger cities where there might not be that big of a demand to go Greek. Brown is just weird. Monetarily and administratively, the school is very supportive of the Greek system--most of our prominent alumni are/were Greek, but the student body as a whole isn't very supportive.

Anyway, I'm not a legacy to any NPC groups. Well, my daughter (if I have one) will be!


[This message has been edited by AlphaChiGirl (edited August 21, 2001).]

[shadokat]

I used to work at Penn and they only have Spring Rush there. They have a decent sized greek system, with some houses. I would say they aren't out and about like Cornell, but they still have a respectable system with good organizations.

[dzrose93]

Although I'm not considered a legacy, my cousin is an Alpha Gamma Delta alumna.

[AOTLALA]

My dad was a Kappa Sig at Cornell and they had a very active greek system while was there. I know there was a slight decline and a lot of houses went under because of numbers, but today Cornell is again a strong greek system. My dad had a ball being greek at Cornell and has the crazy stories to prove it. I was an Alpha Phi legacy, though there was no Alpha Phi at my school. But my lucky little brother, who does not want to rush, is a legacy of Kappa Sig(dad), SAE(grandfather) and Sigma Chi(other grandfather)of which all three are where he is at!!

[Corbin Dallas]

My uncle is a Theta Xi, and my cousin pledged Sigma Nu, but dropped out. Both were/are at Rose-Hulman.

------------------
Steve Corbin
Lambda Chi Alpha
Theta Kappa Chapter
Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech.

[Vixenradio]

I'm the first greek in my family too! My sorority is a local one in Boston, MA

------------------
"Once a Kappa, Always a Kappa" ...Kappa Gamma Chi
Emerson College Boston, MA

www.geocities.com/krxalumni

[PenguinTrax]

My mother pledged Sigma Delta Tau but left school before she initiated. My aunt initiated into SDT. Other than that, I was the only Greek in the family until my cousin pledged Alpha Chi Omega this last winter (at Cornell).

Barbara
ZTA

[KillarneyRose]

Barbara, you mentioned that your cousin is an Alpha Chi Omega at Cornell. Have you noticed that greeks there are unusually visible compared to the other Ivies? My sister graduated from Cornell (hardcore GDI) and when I would go up to visit her I saw many people in letters which wasn't the case when I would visit friends at other Ivies.

------------------
@~Tracy~@

"...For it's just the flame of a sister's love, that makes the world go round."

GOOD LUCK TO ALL THE DZ COLLEGIANS DURING RUSH!!!

[finest_alum]

First Greek in my family
My real big sister was a Sigma Nu little sister back in the day, but never in a sorority. And my brother pretty much lived at the Fiji house at U of Chicago, but didn't actually pledge.
So I'm just starting the Greek legacy for us!!!!

[PenguinTrax]

Tracy,
I've never been on the Cornell campus, so I can't offer an opnion. I've also just recently met a woman that became at Chi Omega at Cornell.

Barbara

Originally posted by KillarneyRose:
Barbara, you mentioned that your cousin is an Alpha Chi Omega at Cornell. Have you noticed that greeks there are unusually visible compared to the other Ivies? My sister graduated from Cornell (hardcore GDI) and when I would go up to visit her I saw many people in letters which wasn't the case when I would visit friends at other Ivies.

[aephi alum]

I'm also the first Greek in my family! As far as I know, no one in my family has ever gone to a school with a Greek system. Well, my hypothetical future daughter gets to be a legacy

[carnation]

No true female legacies. just cousins in DZ (U. of Houston) and Kappa (U. of Texas). But....my oldest is an AOPi and the next 2 will rush in a year. Our 4th daughter doesn't want them to pledge Pi Phi or AOPi but rather 2 more sororities so that she, the queen, can possibly go to a bunch of prefs someday and truly choose the one she likes best since sororities are required to put legacies at their pref parties on the first bid list!

We think it'll be hysterical if our ninth daughter ends up a legacy to 9 different sororities!

[deltajas]

Hey
One of my cousin's is the president of her chapter of Alpha Xi Delta, and my other cousin is a Phi Kappa Tau
They are both my first cousins

[newbie]

My sister - Kappa Delta
My cousin (girl) - president of her Asian sorority a few years back...cannot remember what the letters were, though.

My other cousin (boy) - Phi Tau