Xander: Just once I'd like to run into a cult of bunny worshippers. Anya: Great. Thank you very much for those nightmares.

'Sleeper'


Veronica Mars: Annoy, Tiny Blonde One. Annoy Like the Wind.

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Hayden - Dec 02, 2006 6:29:12 pm PST #4653 of 5730
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Hey, congrats, Kalshane!

Being also undergrad-centric to my specific college, I have a hard time believing that any school could have a larger or more influential Greek system than the U of Alabama. Their KA frat was also notorious for racist Confederate-mythologizing bullshit, but the Greeks ran everything in student government and received all sorts of leeway from the administration to do so, at least until the administration dissolved the student government for some infractions. Oh, this is all coming back to me: there was apparently a pan-Greek council called Theta Nu Epsilon (or ONE) that chose all the members of the student government on the notion that no other group on campus could oppose the Greek vote. IIRC, one year a disgruntled ONE member ran for president threatening to expose the whole system, and they burned crosses on her lawn and did other craaaaazy things, until the administration decided that too much press might expose their all-too-cozy relationship with the Greek power machine and they dismantled student government because of this.


§ ita § - Dec 02, 2006 6:38:40 pm PST #4654 of 5730
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

At my university, frats threw parties. That's all. But they were nowhere near as fun as the engineering/nursing ones. I'm not sure I knew anyone in a fraternity or sorority until long after I graduated.


Kalshane - Dec 02, 2006 7:13:27 pm PST #4655 of 5730
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

Thanks, folks.

I knew a couple of girls in a Sorority in college, but never got invited to any parties, frat or otherwise. Of course, we were supposed to be a dry campus. (Which any walk through the dorms on a Friday or Saturday night could tell you wasn't working so well.)

I know during pledge week a friend of mine nearly got run over by a horde of guys wearing nothing but swim fins and gas masks as they streaked across campus. But that's the only fraternity-related activity I even heard about.

Of course, I was only there for the one year.


Gris - Dec 02, 2006 8:51:13 pm PST #4656 of 5730
Hey. New board.

Caltech doesn't have a Greek system. We have co-ed houses instead, that everybody joins and lives in. It's like Harry Potter!

I miss college.


P.M. Marc - Dec 02, 2006 8:58:32 pm PST #4657 of 5730
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Evergreen is also Greek Free.

The individual apartments weren't co-ed (unless you signed a waiver and did a group lease thing instead of individual assignments), but the buildings were.


victor infante - Dec 03, 2006 4:28:09 am PST #4658 of 5730
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.

We didn't have fraternities, sororities or anything similar at my school in England. although many of the American students who came over for one semester belonged to them back home. They always came over and tried to talk to us like we were supposed to be impressed or something. It always took them a few weeks to register that anywhere outside of their home school, it was completely irrelevant.


tiggy - Dec 03, 2006 6:45:08 am PST #4659 of 5730
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore

we had frats and sororities, but they didn't have houses. they lived amongst everyone else in the dorms or in off campus apartments.


ChiKat - Dec 03, 2006 6:46:48 am PST #4660 of 5730
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

I went to a small, private, Southern Baptist undergrad. We had no sororities or fraternities.

I have a hard time believing that any school could have a larger or more influential Greek system than the U of Alabama

Went to UofA for grad school. Being in grad school, I was not really part of the greek stuff, but I was certainly aware of it. Particularly during Rush week and bid night since I was a Residence Hall Director for the freshmen women's dorm. Boy, that was a rough night.

U. of Illinois' Greek system is larger in that there are more people in sor/frat than UofA, but I don't think I could call it more influential than UofA's.


meara - Dec 03, 2006 12:20:44 pm PST #4661 of 5730

you can no longer send group emails to your students because of legal issues

WTF? What kind of legal issues? How odd. Are you allowed to send individual emails?

We had no frats/sororities at my university, but my best friend from high school was in a sorority at UMich, and I stayed with her one spring break, and went to a frat party with her. One was enough.


quester - Dec 03, 2006 5:05:52 pm PST #4662 of 5730
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

I started grad school at UW-Madison and took part in Take Back the Night rallys that marched down Fraternity Row.

But, one of our best, nicest, most versatile undergrad theatre students had swithched his major from Agriculture to Theatre and still lived in the AgFrat house. And one of our best volenteers was a sorority house mother.