^He's clearly an expert in many areas!!!

 

I know....another thread ruined!  Ugh!

There are at the very least subtle differences from school to school on how popular the greek life is

 

It's not always subtle. Go to Miami, go to OU, completely different. 1/3 of Miami is Greek!

 

You're out of town and in Ohio's case into one of a half-dozen medium-sized cities around the region or off to the east coast.

 

Don't forget Chicago and LA for OU grads and also the Carolinas. Pretty much all the education majors I know are moving to the Carolinas right after graduation. There's some teacher boom down there or sh!t like that...

 

Lots of OU Communications majors (our school's only claim to fame other than partying) end up in the three biggest markets (NYC, LA, Chicago). A good chunk head to DC too.

 

Uhhh unless their uncle is Al Roker, most comm majors who wanna break into TV/Radio end up in Lima or peanut markets like that..

I don't know how often this happens, but I'm with DanB on this one: "He's clearly an expert in many areas!!!"

 

 

You're coming around Mayday!!

Pretty much all the education majors I know are moving to the Carolinas right after graduation. There's some teacher boom down there or sh!t like that...

 

Yes, sprawl.

You're coming around Mayday!!

 

Just like when someone tells me "you the MAN!!!", you can just stop that. ;-)

I hate elitist fraternity groups. Most of the kids are dumb as sh!t, have little talent and aside from a few, most don't have that great of connections. At least the Freemasons know where the national treasure is.

 

Again, I could give two sh!ts about your opinion, if you think fraternities are dumb, that's your opinion, you're wrong, but hey, you're entitled to your stupid opinion.

 

LOL you having to pay for friends- never would have guessed.

^ Again, that's your opinion, regardless, can it.

Yes surrr

It's "thank you sir, may I have another?!?" :laugh:

I thought it was "the beatings will continue until morale improves."

Well, that's MY line as an Admin around here! :whip:

 

;-)

^Which reminds me of the time in college when I had to give a heart-warming year-end speech and hand out awards to my "staff".  My 8pm speech was preceded by about 2 hours in a nearby bar.  Anyway after giving out the awards I had to go to the bathroom really bad and out in the hallway a janitor comes up to me with a fraternity paddle and asks me if that was mine.  I said yeah, I've been looking all over for that.  I walk back into the year-end all-staff meeting with the fraternity paddle just as one of the more uptight young women on the staff was giving her year-end talk.  I didn't do anything with the paddle except carry it in but the whole place cracked up and a week or so later at the year-end party some girl I didn't recognize comes up and says "you were hilarious at the all-staff, especially when you came back in with that paddle."  Anyway, there's more to this story, but that's where I'm going to end it. 

 

This time at OU I moved into an apartment and in the storage room were two composite photos of a Fraternity and Sorority from 1998.  I thought about tracking down their owners but instead just used them for decoration.  At the end of my lease I told my friend about them and we threw them in the back of his truck and bolted them to the wall in a bathroom in Linn Hall, AKA The Ridges, AKA The Athens Lunatic Asylum.  This was up where the painting department had its graduate student studios.  I left school and recently I heard that they stayed bolted to that wall for a year or two until one night when they were having graduate painting critiques and out of nowhere the men of Pi Kappa Alpha, escorted by about four Athens police officers, descended on the bathroom with power tools and carted off the composite photos without saying a word.  I mean, it's hilarious that they stayed bolted to that wall for as long as they did, and were awol for more than five years total, but I think more hilarious that Pike feared the art department enough that they had to get the police escort!           

^that's what I thought this thread was going to be about, funny frat stories!

 

My frat was a pharmacy frat, you had to be in the college to be a member.  As custom in the 70's, maybe not so much now, everyone would collect decorative pharmacy jars and fill them with different colored tablets and capsules.  Mostly harmless drugs, antibiotics, antihistimines, vitamins, etc.

 

We also had a pledge project, where we stole street signs that were the name or nickname of each of the actives.  One night, someone broke into the frat house and stole some of these drugs.  We dutifully called the police.  When they came to take the report, we tried to explain that the drugs were harmless, but they were a bit skeptical.  When they saw the ADA Street sign hanging on the wall, (the sweetheart that year was named Ada Hu), the one cop smiled and said, "I wondered what happened to that sign".

 

I also had an empty Merck Cocaine bottle that I got from work and filled with Ivory Snow.  These were highly sought after.  Found it in a move just a few years ago, figured this would not be a good thing to have around anymore and pitched it.

 

 

Dan B. and prescription meds.....the pieces of the puzzle are slowly coming together.  LOL

Does anyone know how the US frat world got started?

 

As far as I know the only country in Europe that had a well developed fraternity culture was Germany, with its Burschenschaften (sp?)  Van Wyck Brooks, in his "Flowering of New England" disucssess how some of the New England elite went to college at some of these German universities, which became the inspiration for the transformation of places like Harvard. 

 

So I wonder if the concept of fraternitys was a borrowing from Germany, but without the aristocratic and military trappings of the Burschenshaften.

 

 

The 70's were such a blur.....

Does anyone know how the US frat world got started?

 

As far as I know the only country in Europe that had a well developed fraternity culture was Germany, with its Burschenschaften (sp?)  Van Wyck Brooks, in his "Flowering of New England" disucssess how some of the New England elite went to college at some of these German universities, which became the inspiration for the transformation of places like Harvard. 

 

So I wonder if the concept of fraternitys was a borrowing from Germany, but without the aristocratic and military trappings of the Burschenshaften.

 

 

 

Were you in a fraternity?

^ Obviously not, or he would have learned his history as a pledge!!

My point..

Was anyone here in a fraternity (or for the few women on here, a sorority), while in college?

 

KStay2,

 

Did you ever think your innocent question above would start such a mess?

I knew it would, I'm amazed by the massive amount of stereotypes and generalities being thrown out by the GDI's.

1972, night of my initiation.  I'm blindfolded and put in the back of a beetle by 2 very large actives.  We drive for well over an hour to some unknown destination.  All of a sudden, the driver slams on his brakes, the car screetches to a halt, and both doors pop open.  All I feel in the back of this very small car, are two bodies being slammed up against it.

 

The door opens, someone pulls my blindfold down, there is a Cincinnati police officer holding a gun.  All we had done was drive around the city for an hour.  He asked if I was about to be initiated into a fraternity.  Being 18 and stupid, I said yes.  Had I been as wise as I am today, I would have said no, I was walking down the street minding my own business!!  That would have put a kink in their plans, and would have prevented me from spending the absolute worst night of my life.

 

Wouldn't change a thing.  Just couldn't wait to share the experience with the next pledge class!!!

^Reminds me of the time I was in a restaurant in a basement in Harvard Square and some guy aged about 18 was dressed in a clown suit, came down into the half-full restaurant, and writhed around on the ground for abuot 3 seconds and then darted out. 

GDIs.

 

[rolls eyes]

Idiot, I'm speaking in regard to this ridiculous statement

Lots of OU Communications majors (our school's only claim to fame other than partying) end up in the three biggest markets (NYC, LA, Chicago). A good chunk head to DC too.

 

I was never officially in a fraternity but I went to The Citadel in Charleston, SC for two years and let me just say that I doubt any fraternity/sorority can match the hell that the freshman go through for a full year. If you've never heard about The Citadel (I'd be surprised if you have) then here is the link. www.citadel.edu

 

For some pics go here http://photo.citadel.edu/purchase/, go to page two, and click on knob recon links. Those pics are of Recognition Day.

"The Lords of Discipline"

 

Read the book, saw the movie.  Conroy has written some great books.

This thread unfolded exactly how I expected it to. Keep it coming! :wink:

 

Yep...you've ruined another thread!

This thread unfolded exactly how I expected it to. Keep it coming! :wink:

 

Yep...you've ruined another thread!

 

Rim shot please!

 

Uhhh unless their uncle is Al Roker, most comm majors who wanna break into TV/Radio end up in Lima or peanut markets like that..

 

Ah not exactly. I have never met a single OU Communications grad who ended up in Lima. The main Ohio cities people end up in are Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo, and Dayton. We spread all over the nation too. The only kids I know working in peanut markets (Erie, Panama City, etc.) work there because they were offered great, influential positions right out of college. We're talking becoming an evening news anchor or producer within a year of graduating! They avoid the lower positions entirely, hence why they chose a small market. The reputation of OU has gotten that good. OU is one of the best and largest Radio-Television and Journalism schools in the world. Many students completely skip the small markets and start right out in medium and large markets.

 

What seperates OU from other Communications schools is the sheer amount of professional production experience you get right on campus. Many students create great resumes and reel tapes without ever leaving campus.

 

Great, influential positions.. HAHAHA.. get the hell outta here with that crap.  You real think they give two shits if you went to OU vs. OSU, etc..  It's about the effort you put in and talent you have..

what is the connection between the quality of OU's DJ school and fraternities/sororities?

 

Mayday, get us back on topic!!!

 

As if this thread was worth mentioning in the first place? :roll:

Hey! This is in the chit chat section, it can go off topic!

Do you make the rules here?

This thread unfolded exactly how I expected it to. Keep it coming! :wink:

 

Yep...you've ruined another thread!

Paahahaha

Great, influential positions.. HAHAHA.. get the hell outta here with that crap. You real think they give two sh!ts if you went to OU vs. OSU, etc.. It's about the effort you put in and talent you have..

 

OSU doesn't have crap for communications (better example would be BG). Experience is largely gained at schools like OU (or in the real world).

 

College is what you make out of it.  I'm sure there are PLENTY of people at OSU that have taken communications and have "made it" just as much as people as OU have "made it" or people at Kent that have "made it."  It's all about effort.

Great, influential positions.. HAHAHA.. get the hell outta here with that crap.  You real think they give two sh!ts if you went to OU vs. OSU, etc..  It's about the effort you put in and talent you have..

 

OSU doesn't have crap for communications (better example would be BG). Experience is largely gained at schools like OU (or in the real world).

 

College is what you make out of it.  I'm sure there are PLENTY of people at OSU that have taken communications and have "made it" just as much as people as OU have "made it" or people at Kent that have "made it."  It's all about effort.

 

No! OU is the best at everything! Partying! Communications! Hot Girls! Assholes! Frassholes! Minorities! Lebenase!

I thought the Lebanese were at Bowling Green?

Massachusetts has more Massholes than OU, I guarantee it.

Guys....who cares....this is about Frats/soros.  Not C-Dawg's generalizing, thread wrecking BS.

 

Now....back on topic  :whip:

What is the topic?

Guys....who cares....this is about Frats/soros. Not C-Dawg's generalizing, thread wrecking BS.

 

Now....back on topic :whip:

 

weak impersonation

weak impersonation

 

HUSH!!

yes sir, sorry sir

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What is the topic?

 

Comparative analysis of frat vibrancy/student diversity/communication related rankings in Ohio like every other God d@mn thread!

What is the topic?

 

Comparative analysis of frat vibrancy/student diversity/communication related rankings in Ohio like every other God d@mn thread!

 

Well, back to CDawg.

what is the connection between the quality of OU's DJ school and fraternities/sororities?

 

It's heavily Greek, that's why. Communications is right up there with Education and Business in Greek Life. Anyone who has recently been Greek at a large school can tell you that. Those majors are the typical backbones of Greek Life at traditional schools.

 

The only exception would be something like OU where Communications majors are the hardest to get into. Still, there's a good amount of Greek Life present.

 

When you graduate from the farm, you'll find that the number one school for communications is Syracuse. Newhouse, specifically. It's also one of the most difficult programs in the school to get into and to stay into (well, outside of Architecture and Engineering. Those guys earn their degrees)

 

My experience, which is strictly anecdotal, is that many of the Newhouse folks were NOT Greek, only because the difficult program precluded them from having the time to pledge.

^everyone knows about Syracuse. That's a no-brainer. OU is right up there with them, and yes, we earn our degrees. They're the most competitive majors at OU and the hardest to get into. There are only a handle of schools set up like OU and Syracuse (though of course we drink like it's PIB at OU which differs from them somewhat).

 

I thought the Lebanese were at Bowling Green?

 

Ah, hell no. Try Michigan and UT. And you will hardly find any in the southern schools like OU.

 

When you graduate from the farm

 

Ohio's first and finest. Farm is OSU, particularly their large agriculture program.

 

 

Stick a fork in this girl......she's done!  ugh!  The generalizations amaze me.  What a tool!