Anybody here join a fraternity or sorority while in college?

Something about a moose and a squirrel duo that was unstoppable.

We managed to get into enough trouble as it was.

I really enjoyed it. I went to a big city (lots of commuters) campus and it gave me an instant group to hang with. It was a lot of fun.

I hated every minute of it, and I don't think it mattered which sorority I pledged. In fact, I probably would've hated the others even more. Once I was initiated, I really hated rush, and the cruelty that ensued.

I escaped in my Jr. year to an upper level university (only admitted Jrs. - grad students, and required a high GPA). ADPi had a chapter there, but it was much more about philanthropy and career networking than about partying. I helped out at some events, but I never affiliated. I had no need for 50yr old-something alums scrutinizing my private life, as I saw that happen at my former school (not to me, but to good friends).

My husband was a founding member of his TKE chapter, and oh my, the wild stories he tells. Coffins, drugs, and one of his brothers knew enough to do abortions, this was early 70s.

I went to a big school, I came from a small town. I was pretty introverted, and if I had been on my own, I would have sat in my dorm room all the time. I forced myself to go through Rush, was accepted, and it gave me a framework for meeting people and getting involved. Some of those guys are still my closest friends, more than two decades later. OTOH, I didn't take academics seriously enough during that time, and it hurt me subsequently. That's on me, though. Other guys didn't have a problem with it.

If I had a kid, I don't know whether I would recommend it now. Things have changed. We did some crazy things, but we knew where the line was and not to go over it. This generation of college students seem not to have any internal controls.

I'd thrown away a full tuition scholarship to USC to volunteer for the draft. JFK, ask what you can do for your country and all that, I volunteered for Infantry, for OCS, for Vietnam, and for combat duty. I was seriously wounded and did a lot of hospital time before getting out and going to college.

I finally went to USC on the VA's dime as a partially-disabled veteran. But by that time I had no interest in the frats or Trojan football. The only Trojan football game I went to was to take a bunch of innercity kids there as part of a student project.

I wrote for the Daily Trojan on student governance, but I was not impressed with the individuals involved in student governance. I was more impressed with a classmate who spent his spare time working at the La Raza center on campus. He cared about injustice and was doing something about it.

I love ya, man, but I gotta say that Greek life never appealed to me.

In the early '70's at UCLA. I only did it because it was so anti-PC--sorority
membership was way down because of the anti-establishment popularity of anti-war, hippie
lifestyle--and I am still in touch with some of those girls 40+ years later. One of those
girls became a Dem member of a state legislature.

As a Valley Boy, I just had to ask.

and stayed on in L.A. until 1988. So, not a Valley girl, but I know
about surfer dudes.

I may have gone along with a lot of fashions, but not that one. My pride was my Honda 50 scooter, lol.

But I took a couple of classes at UCLA as an honor student in HS and eventually ended up going to...USC.

I moved to CA from NJ in 1965 and the first time a guy told me I was "bitchin"
I was flabbergasted. It did not mean the same thing on the east coast
as it did on the west coast.

He turned me on to the first SD Homegrown album. He was particularly fond of the Chula Vista track...

the French National Honor Society.

We were a wild and crazy bunch, I tell ya.....

Millsaps College

for intramural sports and pranks. Good bunch of guys as long as you had a football with you.

as an undergraduate. In graduate school, I was inducted into Phi Alpha Theta, honor society in history.

At my campus (Central Michigan University), many student leaders - such as student government, residence life, etc. - were involved in fraternities and sororities.

(and - Felta Zeta Thigh!)

eta: Hey, NightWatcher! We must be frat brothuhs!! . (didn't see your post til I put mine up!)

I later served as president of the board of advisors, designed the new house after a fire and currently manage the alumni association Web site. Our alumni are fully engaged in success of the active chapter and are partners with the university in such.

Fraternal organizations are much more than beer

I got something from them in the mail and it sounded interesting. But after hearing stories about crazy initiations and stuff like that, I decided not to join.

It was a very positive experience, I had a lot of fun and made life long friends.

"Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology for psychology students at four-year colleges and universities and graduate student-only campuses. As stated in its constitution, Psi Chi’s purpose is “to encourage, stimulate and maintain excellence in scholarship of the individual members in all fields, particularly in psychology, and to advance the science of psychology” (Psi Chi, 2013)."

yeah, so much for all that.....

o btw --
http://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/psn/2013/09/psi-chi.aspx