What fraternity/sorority are/were you in?

[j_h_smith]

My kids go to schools that only have acedemic greek houses.
Loyola University in Maryland (formerly Loyola College) and Embry Riddle Aeronauctical University.

I never joined, didn't see a reason to join. Just my personal opinion.
Jim Smith

[mxrider42]

Kappa Sigma. One of the best choices I ever made.
Trey

[Vypyrz]

I joined USMC. Does that count?

[j_h_smith]

I joined USMC. Does that count?

Now that's a Fraternity I can get behind.

Congrats!
Jim Smith

[Christina]

Our house is just down the street from Phi Mu Alpha which is the music fraternity here at Valpo.

Our house is two doors down from PMA too! A professor lives in between...

[redpython]

fraternities and sororities are mainly for buying friends and under age drinking and drug use.

[mxrider42]

It is usually the people who are not in them and who have never experienced them that talk bad about them.
The same principal applies to those who keep snakes and those who don't. Those who don't usually keep snakes think the reptile keepers are crazy.
Trey

[chapskis1]

fraternities and sororities are mainly for buying friends and under age drinking and drug use.

I had a lot of friend outside of the fraternity during college -- maybe even more than within the fraternity. I didn't feel I was "buying" friends, as it was more of a way to get guys with the same ideals and values in one place. As many others stated, I knew many of the guys before I even pledged.

Plus, we didn't look down upon non-fraternity members -- we always had "independents" hanging out with us and always welcomed them.

As far as underage drinking -- really? I'm pretty sure there is tons of that going on in the dorms and at house parties that are non-fraternity related. If anything, our house was safer than any other party. I don't know what other fraternity parties were like, but at ours we didn't allow underage drinking. We hired professional security services, they checked id's of all people coming to the parties, and issued wristbands to "of age" attendees. If someone was caught drinking without a wristband they were asked to leave.

And as far as drugs -- our house had zero tolerance for drugs.

Oh, and BTW -- Theta Chi - Phi Chapter!

[BallsUnlimited]

been to a lot of there parties they were always fun. Had kids i grew up with join them and they seemed to love it. But id rather just roll with the south side boys(bike crew)

[broadude]

fraternities and sororities are mainly for buying friends and under age drinking and drug use.

and you KNOW this, how?