That will never happen.
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Do Greeks throw parties anymore?
That’s hazing?
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I know on other campuses they do but it’s very different due to liability. I’ve heard our nationals (our frat is no longer on campus) requires the following for parties:
- If there is alcohol it can’t be at the frat house.
- If there is alcohol served every guest much have a written invite (with actives being limited on how many each can invite…2 or 4…can’t remember).
- Alcohol must be served by a 3rd party vendor.
- Alcohol can only be served to those over 21 and that must be verified upon entry with over 21 getting a wrist band.
- Number of drinks served to each guest is limited.
Norman is essentially a suburb of Oklahoma City so there are things to do…OKC has an NBA team, a cool Riverwalk district downtown complete with bars, and a Minor League baseball team.
They pull A LOT of their T-Shirt fans from the 1.5 million in the OKC metro
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The way it is gotten around nowadays, from what I understand, is you have a “tab” at a bar
I would use a combination of the Cambridge Oaks site, Lot 9B and Lot 8B. Although Lot 9B and 8B may not go over well with tailgaters.
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Having been to a few houses in undergrad, I can say the only one really followed is 4.
Actually, at my undergrad college, all Greek parties were required to be BYOB with a selective guest list.
Rush was completely dry.
How can they pull T shirt fans from 1.5 million and we can’t fill 40K stadium with 7 million? Something is off.
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Shoot, we got out on probation for pulling up a bud light truck, parking it behind the house, and letting everyone serve themselves.
We were silly.
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Having served on a fraternity’s national board of directors, you would not believe some of the dumb things supposedly “smart” college students will do.
I just thank God there were no smart phones around when I was in college.
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We built a 40 foot long battleship in our front yard and zip lined cardboard airplanes on fire from the second floor for our Kamikaze party.
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There was a sorority that got in trouble for making there pledges stand on their chairs and Sing I’m a Little Tea Pot, UH is extremely antihazing.
What’s OUs record the past 20 years compared to ours?
They lost their house and their charter and had to re-charter I believe it was for hazing.
I never saw the Texas delta charter. No idea what it looks like. We were on double secret probation from pledgship to expulsion.
I’m going to say it the Bayou Oaks was the best thing to happen to the Greek system, most of the Alumni Boards were having trouble maintaining houses and having all the houses together is great, if a fraternity needs to visit a sorority meeting they walk over. The only real down fall is they should have built it as singles and not doubles.
I think the combination of camera phones, anti-frat sentiment and COVID have really taken a bite out of membership.
One thing they should improve on is encouraging alumni tailgating, like maybe having a central location in an outer lot or something, we had a tailgate in 2023 near the stadium, just having the space was SO expensive, but it got brothers that never attend games to come out.
They care…
I attended CDH’s first UH game @ OU and stayed in OKC the night before
The whole city was about OU
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Well, I would say, first of all, that my own fraternity chapter at Case Western Reserve U. had every race and numerous ethnicities/religions represented. VERY diverse.
I would say that it was beneficial in a number of ways.
First of all, the social life beats the dorms any day.
Second of all, living in the House and running it was pretty much like running a business, with budgets, maintenance, paying a cook and running a kitchen with health inspections, cleaning, organizing and running social and community service events, etc.
It provided a lot of opportunities for leadership and managerial experience.
The Greek intramural leagues were also far better and more competitive than the dorm intramural leagues were.
Now then…
Some like to talk about the networking and career connections that Greek Life provides, and the lifelong friendships. I can see how that might be the case with Greek Orgs at UH, simply because most of UH’s Greek alums probably stay in the greater Houston area, and can provide a lot of connections for fellow alums.
In my case though, my fraternity brothers have scattered to the four winds; I have a few in Austin, but haven’t had any in Houston in over a decade, so I’d rate Greek Life’s value in networking and career connecting to be a bit overrated. I never got a job, interview, or anything like that as a result of my fraternity membership; maybe others here have.
I’m still friends with most of my fraternity brothers on social media, but haven’t met with any of them in years, and while my chapter does hold an alumni dinner annually on my undergrad college’s campus, I’ve only gone back and attended two of them in the last 31 years; the last was over a decade ago.
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