There are many tough decisions that a young person will have to make as they are transitioning from high school to college. Among the toughest may be deciding what field of study to pursue or even what university to attend. But one of the easiest decision you will have in your entire life should be this one: deciding to rush a fraternity or sorority.
First, let’s examine the downsides to rushing (note: these have to do with pre and post pledgeship, as that process is an animal all to itself that will be discussed closer to the start of the ‘07 scholastic year). We hesitate to bring up the cons to fraternity/sorority life, as it is in fact our purpose to promote this lifestyle. However, we must retain our philosophy of always being truthful with you, and thus we will now operate with full disclosure. You will be faced with four years of mingling with attractive members of the opposite sex. You will have so many party opportunities that you will sometimes struggle to fit them all into your social calendar. You will be thrust into a social network which contains everyone from college freshmen to the elites of industry. You will have so much frat water that you won’t know what to do with it.
Oh…wait…those are all great things. In truth, there are very few downsides to joining the Greek community if you approach the experience with a good fratitude and a desire to be the frattiest human being you can possibly be. As your college years progress, your fratty potential will increase exponentially, and you will look back in awe of the doors that were opened that would have been closed had you decided not to rush. We will now examine some of the main reasons to rush in greater detail. Note: there are literally too many reasons to rush to fit into a single article. As experienced fratdaddies, your professors could write entire volumes on the pros of entering this community. In the short space we have here, we will attempt to highlight the greatest of these.
The Serious Stuff
Before we get into the incredible collegiate lifestyle that being Greek affords you, we will briefly tell you about the “big picture” opportunities that being a fratdaddy/sorostitute provides. Today’s business world is rife with fratdaddies and sorostitutes who love to help members of their organization reach new heights in their post-grad pursuits. The networking opportunities that your house will provide are limitless. Many a fratdaddy has landed their dream job not in the classroom or during a formal interview, but rather sharing a drink with an alumnus at a homecoming cocktail. In short, joining a house is a lifetime commitment that will also provide lifetime rewards.
Brothers/Sisters
The GDI often loves to chide the fratdaddy/sorostitute by accusing him/her of “buying friends”. However, this is far from the truth. Any fratdaddy or sorostitute can tell you that the main social function of a Greek organization is to bring together people with like interests. In other words, your house will be a collection of people that share your likes, your dislikes, and your perspectives. The rush process is an environment where houses pick you, and you pick them, because your personalities are similar. These will be people that you would be friends with even if no fraternities existed. Although the GDI does not want to admit it, even non-Greeks make most of their college friends through sharing activities, be it campus organizations or, in their case, intramural ultimate frisbee tournaments. In the same way, you will make lifelong friends in your house through shared experiences. Even when you are no longer paying dues, these relationships will remain.
Opposite Sex
There is no doubt that one of the greatest strengths of the Greek community is the way that it allows you to meet literally hundreds of like minded people of the opposite sex. We don’t care how hard you THINK you fratted in high school, we promise that your first semester on campus will make the girls/guys you went to high school with look like online dating fodder. The opportunities are so numerous that even the pledge class fat kid (and fratdaddies, you know who I’m talking about) is going to have numerous shacking chances that will have have him far outkicking his coverage. Of course, the same principle that applies to your brothers will also apply to sorostitutes; you will meet many people of the opposite sex who share your interests and ambitions. This will easily lead, if you so desire, to finding a sorostitute who will be perfect for a long term relationship. You’ll want someone to settle down with and start a fratling factory with later in life, and many fratdaddies can tell you that they met their future wives during their first semesters on campus.
Social Life
We’ve alluded to the many relationships you will form as a member of the Greek system. There is no better way to further develop these relationships than to take full advantage of the outstanding social opportunities presented to the Greek. Sure, anyone can go out to the bars, and believe us, you’ll be doing that plenty. However, not everyone can say that they go to the bars after they’ve already had a full night of pre-party, party, and pre-bar-post-party. While many of your classmates are celebrating a football victory with cranberry-vodka and Smirnoff Ice with the other members of their intramural field hockey team, you will sometimes be donning the coat and tie to sip scotch at your house’s post game cocktail. Of course, the lessons you learn during your ungrad party days will translate into making you the life of of the party at future post-grad functions as well. Like all other parts of the Greek lifestyle, your social life will reward you both in the present and the future.
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very nice article
…now incoming freshman, you know what your duties to the fratworld are
I feel that some advantages of not rushing a frat were neglected though
What advantages would those be? Having all the time you need to frost your tips and find that perfect pair of destroyed cargos at A&F.
Don’t forget copious amounts of time to play ultimate frisbee.
don’t also forget the opportunity to devote more time to your world of warcraft character
How could you forget all the time you’d lose when you could be spending it buying your tan and shopping for new earrings?
not to mention dues amount for money that you could have bought axe with so you could douche hard at the local collar popping spots
i love you guys, like… so much.
Maybe even do a little shopping at Hot Topic?
Incoming freshmen,
Being from the north, I am constantly surrounded by douchebaggery. When I was your age, just finishing up high school, I felt a bit out of place. All I wanted to do was play rugby and rock khakis, polos, and newbies or reefs to school every day. Yet all around me, Abercrombie/ghetto culture seemed to be the norm. But it was in pledging where I really found myself. Now, in the sea of douche around me, my fraternity is an island of refuge. So rush, and before you know it you will be so busy drinking frat water and entertaining sorostitutes that these douches will not even be appear on your frat radar(except when their heads are exploding due to getting too close to the intense fratmoshere that surrounds you)
i prefer to stay independent and not “buy” my friends like all you guys do.
Penn State? You’re joking right?
spacious, you’re a fag.
mongoose, you refer to yourself in third person.
Spacious, if you’re a GDI then why the fuck are you on here. Do yourself a favor, whatever campus you might be on, skateboard your dumb ass over to the KA house and ask them how you can better yourself. Though you might be a douchebag, i’ve seen plenty of your kind see the error of their ways through fratmosis. I hope that you can remedy your situation by next semester and frat hard with the rest of us. If not, then enjoy your new World of Warcraft game, because thats all you’re gonna be doing.
cargoboy, “buying” friends was covered in the article
just remember, hitler was a gdi too, so you just may have a future, but it’s 99% unlikely
this is getting out of hand
Seriously, where do these GDIs even find this site?
I just wanted to say that this was a very well written article that brought up many good points about the pros of the greek system. Keep up the good work Doug.
LOL Penn State?? I’ve been there hundreds of times and all frats at PSU are douchebag social clubs.. like the skater clothes, dread lock, abercrombie wearing, not to mention there’s SO much hair gel at Penn State that it woud be even too much for the Gotti Brothers. You have to be joking about fratting hard at Penn State.
How many times have we gone over this? “LOL” = TDM.
I think these douches get on the site just to get a rise out of us. If we just ignore these dumbass comments and stick the basics, they will go back to drinking zima and playing those fantasy star games or whatever there called.
I enjoy the occasional GDI commenting on here. It gives us a better chance to make fun of them that we would not have had. We wouldn’t get to hear things like, “Hitler was a GDI too”
anyway…
i think water skiing is something that doesn’t get much credit for being fratty…it’s much frattier than wakeboarding, although i dabble in both dragging elbows skiing beats wakeboarding any day. Though it’s not deep sea fishing, it’s a substitute for frat stars that live on lakes and not oceans. not to mention frat water, ski nautiques, seersucker swim trunks, and sorostitutes
You’re a Sigma Chi…end yourself as quickly as possible
Why was hazing not mentioned in the article?
valid point, hazing is the cornerstone to reeping these rewards.
GDI=
gay torn ripped cargo shorts
lame A&F muscle shirt
massive amounts of hair gel & axe body spary
oversized lame sandals
one big douche bag
lxa frater where is your chapter?
Great article. I agree with the point above that hazing is the best part of joining a fraternity. While you may not always like the crap that goes down, it’s almost always cool. You can tell stories to your fratlings later on in life about the time you were so drunktaneous that you ran frat row naked (one of the best times of my life) or sliding by campus police after consuming a case of frat water by telling them you’re pledging and not to worry. I admit that I shakced with a few sorostitues I probably wouldn’t have during my pledgeship, but it was by far the best thing I’ve done to date. Many of the sorostitutes I shacked with got me into formals later on, which only yielded more shacking opportunities. When i got out of high school, I thought I was fratty, but pledging helped me truly become a frat-daddy. And, let’s put it like this, no way that a GDI douche can get with as many fine ladies as a fraternity man can. Period.
not that hazing is the best part of joining a fraternity, but it could just be the defining factor between a cocky, spoon fed prep school boy and an elite industrialist.
why do you all feel the need to talk shit on the internet?..the whole point of this thing (or so i thought) was to unite fratters across the country and help everyone become more fratty. who cares if some kid at penn state thinks he frats hard. let him think that and give him some ways to frat harder. reading this garbage makes my eyes bleed. there are even gdi kids that come on here and post stupid shit just to see what retards will post back with serious comments. get a fucking clue.
In response to Anonymous (re: Penn State), I agree wholeheartedly. Although the fratmosphere at Penn State may not be relatively high compared to a frat-topia as say, Alabama, that does not mean that there are not fratdaddies and sorostitues fratting their hardest seven days a week. I myself, am from a northern campus severely lacking in fratmosphere, but beleive me, I try my damndest to frat hard, but at times it is difficult, even discouraging, to be surrounded by so much douchebaggery in the Greek system, which is supposed to be a refuge of frattiness in which I recline on the fratio, kick off my top-siders and pop the top of a fratwater while the aroma of the crawfish being boiled by the pledges wafts into my nostrils.
Frat on, brothers.
this is what happens when you let the GDIs into hollywood:
http://abcfamily.go.com/shows/greek/
fucking awful
being an interested high school graduate, this information on fratting to the fullest and fighting off douchebaggery all around is going to come in quite handy, i appreciate the info and look forward to the next articles on rushing so that i may better pursue my life as a soon-to-be fratdaddy
Dear Anonomous,
I am not even in a frat and I am cooler than you. Maybe you should be the one to “get a clue”.
Go back to myspace “Spacious cargos.” I can name everything you keep in your cargo shorts:
2 sets of Magic the Gathering cards (1 for backup/emergency)
Old O’Douls bottle tops from the night before
A massive key ring with little plastic pictures of really gay cars and stupid fucking sayings like “Ass, gas or grass. Noone rides for free.”
A PS3
3 backup batteries and 7 games for your PS3
A swiss army knife just incase your Halo disk freezes after your 15-hour Halo and Coca-Cola binge. Fag
An Aeropostale gift card you gave yourself for your own birthday.
A picture of the hot sorostitute that I have probably been shacking with for the past month that you only wish you had bigger testies so you could talk to her.
An old ticket to a Taking Back Sunday show
1 condom that you’ve had since 8th grade
Matt Kaufmans Gay, that may have been the single greatest GDI put down I’ve ever seen. Don’t expect a response, his head most likely exploded.
What if there was a Frat-off instead of a Douche-off. Like, which is frattier…
Sigma Chi or Sigma Nu?
Pike or Pi Kap?
Kappa Sig or KA?
Teke or Deke?
Delta or Beta?
Theta Chi or Lambda Chi?
AGR or ATO?
Phi Gam or Phi Tau?
SAE is obviously the best, this is just for runner-ups.
Yeah at a coke snorting contest hahaha. Im sorry you set yourself up man. I have nothing against SAE just know they like their powder
Snu, Pike, KA, Teke, Delt, Lambda Chi, ATO, Phi Gam
SAE might beat out Sigma Pi on a good day.
Bear Bryant…I like the name and I’m an alumni of that campus myself. Having a Frat-off seems like a fun idea…but could prove relative as the younger generation doesn’t have a larger perspective on different house histories. There are houses on that campus that fratted so hard in the 80s and 90s it caused probationary statuses and getting tossed off campus. This can lead to a house coming back as weaker or of a different character and nature. ATO comes to mind, as do a few others. In the 90s, no one could touch ATO even with their smaller amount of members…..they ran the campus with an iron fist. From what I sense of them these days is that they’re back strong, but much “nicer” and with a good guy image. There is nothing wrong with this, but it seems they may have lost a certain edge. Kappa Sig, Delta Chi, Pi Kap, and Phi Delt also had similar instances, but I don’t know how any of them are doing these days. But in my day (the early 90s) these houses were tough, unruly and fratted extremely hard. I guess my point is that we’re in this together, to deny douchbaggery any advancement in society.
What are the frattiest shorts? Polo Andrews, Patagonia Stand-ups, etc? What inseam does everyone go with? 5, 6, 7?
Great article. One more thing to add - the sorriest sight on campus every fall football Saturday are the GDI Douche-bag Alumni standing on the sidewalk and pointing out their dorm rooms to their teenage sons and daughters while we fratdaddies tailgate in style at the old frat house, our frat house, that we own, maintain and go back to every damn chance we get to see our Brothers.
your first post critiqie:
you decided to go with the coaches name as well since you saw that bear bryant got props for it.
you have just decided that you can no longer wear long trousers and now must request inseam lengths to attempt to
appear fratty.
conclustion:
rising sophomore, Beta
Hoyt Thorpe + Matt Kaufmans Gay = bought friends
sorry that i have real ones!!!!
can someone help me out and give me a rundown of the fraternities at South Carolina. im about to rush and was just wondering if someone could give a wishful, future fratdaddy some advice
ps i am not even in a fraternity yet and i can tell that spacious cargo is bitter he spends all his time drinking alone in the dark and masturbating to star trek.
hardy har
danny ford, check out charleston polo’s, anything made in charleston has gotta be fratty…
http://www.dann-online.com/clothing/Trousers/CharlestonKhakis/charlestonkhakis.htm
they have them at M.H. Franks and they’re pretty fratty. Also, VV patchwork pants are hard to beat.
The “Greek” show on ABC family is the biggest slap in the face to true fratdaddies everywhere. Granted, I’m sure it will feature ample amounts of shacking and fratwater, but any show whose trailer features emo/punk rock is a surefire loser. Especially one written and produced by GDI Hollywood fags. I doubt we’ll ever see any Greek movies of the caliber that Animal House and Old School reached, because 99% of fratdaddies have more interests than running off to become some hollywood screenwriter.
Danny Ford,
on a regular basis any PFG or pleated Polo Chinos. himmed to 6″ all day.
I don’t see any polos on the site, but i do see flannel and denim shirts… go home.
everyone just ignore spacious cargos when he posts, hes obviously had one too many of those semen shakes
Dude just go play with you pokemon cards
I agree with UTMKA. I saw a commercial for it and was disgusted.
what are some decent tasting moderately priced cigars?
oh and can i get some top-5 lists for themed mixers/house parties
We’ve always had great success with:
80’s Night (Make sure your music is planned accordingly)
White Trash Bash
Stoplight Party (People wear red when taken, Yellow when “undecided” and Green when single.)
Bikini Tops and Flip Flops (Best when held outside)
Heaven and Hell
he was asking about shorts, and they have some good shorts, despite the denim
Duly noted. My apologies.
Lands End 5” shorts. No spring breaker will ever dare to frat those. Polo chinos are a good choice also.
spring breaker =GDI gelly
thanks for the heads up on lands end, they’ve got some good stuff.
yall try so hard its ridiculous, for all incoming rushees im gonna let you know that if you plan on attending an SEC school and rushing a top-tier, you’d be better served not reading this site at all if you plan on getting and bid and making it through pledgeship
You are trying hard to sound like a badass but you sound like a D-rag. Why does this site only post three posts a month with only one realt article? Kind of lazy there, Doug.
Overall, out of curiousity…which is the least frattiest fraternity in the nation (purely on a national basis)? I’m going with either PIKE or Sig Ep. Thoughts?
PIKE or lambda chi, sig ep is down there.
any advice about whether to rush first semester or second semester. some people say to do it right away some say wait. any advice?
Delta Chi and Sigma Pi suck pretty hard too.
nationacapitol, if you end up rushing in the spring instead of the fall, you are a dumbass. Fall rush has football games; what else is there to say.
PIKE.
First off, I go with PIKE followed closely by Sigma Phi Epsilon. Second, I have noticed some fine young fraternity men embracing the Oakley sunglasses again. Oakley’s are by far not the frattiest sunglasses available, but what is the overall opinion on them? If not too overdone/eccentric and kept basic, I would say they are quite acceptable among even the most fratastic gentleman due to their respectable quality.
just stick to costas or ray ban wayfarers
a little off topic, but does anyone on here have any info on fraternity reputations at Ole Miss?
spring pledges are ridiculed throughout there fraternity days
There is no such thing as the “frattiest” overall national fraternity. You may have a house like DKE that runs the campus at one school, but is filled with total douchbags at 10 other schools. This is the case for most large national fraternities, be it Pike, Pi Kap, Sigma Chi, Sigma Nu…or whoever. What matters is the tradition and history behind an individual chapter BEFORE it was assimilated into a national fraternity….which is the case for many SEC schools. Bottom line is how a particular chapter has a stronghold on a particular campus. If I’m a Delt at a university and we have an outstanding alumni basis, deep rooted tradition, large numbers, great parties, a powerful grasp on campus politics and events….than I don’t care about what any other Delt chapter does. I have no affiliation with Delt btw. Of course, this may just be the attitude of the campus I was at, where we basically held a superior attitude towards our other chapters.
re: fratharder : While I personally am not 100% sure on their clout, I do know that KA has a absolutely gorgeous house at Ole Miss. Mississippi is a KA stronghold. Our motto is painted on the Capitol’s ceiling.
Also, becoming “National” was the worst thing to ever happen to fraternities. Nothing like some suit in Lexington, VA telling you how to run your chapter.
overall though KA is the most consistent
We’re consistently good, too.
Nationals can really only try to tell you what to do. Whenever they send anyone to our chapter we make up bullshit to keep them off our back and then continue doing things the same way we have been for the last 116 years.
Wofford and W and L are the best KA’s
I don’t buy my friends, I rent them.
And pay damn good money.
Sig Ep is a mountain of fratitude, pike also frats pretty damn hard
what would be yalls fraternity tiers i.e. which ones do u think are a tier 1, tier 2 ect. at your school, dont forget the douche fraternities too
Me thinks tidewater would be a member of said “douche fraternities.”
Instead of putting a house in “tiers”. Here is a very general list of house reputations on campus.
DKE, SAE, EN - old money, runs the campus, excellent parties & alumni
KA - old money, good old boy house, good parties and alumni
PIKE, OX, Pi Kappa Phi, Beta (although Beta is the yankee house, they frat hard), Phi Delt - same as above, but not old money and better at sports, good reputations
ATO, KS, DX, DTD - rowdy, drug dealers, bad reputations for fighting
Delta Sigma Phi, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Kappa Sigma, Chi Phi, AKL - all insignificant
Anyone who puts PIKE above Kappa Sigma or doesnt think SAE belongs in the drug dealer categorie ( we all know they love that blow) is a fucking idiot.
In the south, its all about old money…old money = fratty
KA = Old money
EN = Old money mostly
SAE = Old money, but the guys are a little different
thats kinda the way it is at most southern schools
As “The Tri-Nine” said, every school is different and you cannot tier or categorize individual fraternity chapters. Different National Fraternities may have certain reputations, but they are just generalzations that do not apply everywhere in the South or the North, for that matter.
noone is concerned with fraternities north of SC
I don’t know why y’all are so deluded. “Old money” does not go to SEC schools, except maybe Vanderbilt. Southern old money, which you all seem to fantasize about, would be from either Virginia, Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans, Buckhead (Atlanta), or some former plantation in an otherwise podunk town. They wouldn’t be seen at a public school in any stage of their life, or at least not one that has an academic reputation like an SEC school (except Vandy, Fla., and maybe UGA). They’d go to somewhere like Duke, Emory, Vandy, Tulane, William & Mary…old elite private schools, not football-oriented public schools. Some of the fraternities at public schools may be filled with rich good ol’ boys, but they’re not really “old money.” Most of the Greek population at SEC schools are probably upper-middle class kids from places like Atlanta or Charlotte, and they definitely didn’t go to private schools like Westminster in Buckhead, where the tuition is about 10 times more than that of UGA. They’re rich, sure, but there’s not fraternities at SEC schools filled with “old money.”
Hi, I’m rushing in the fall and am in the market for a new blazer. are navy 2-buttons with the gold buttons pretty much standard?
Skip the blazer and go ahead and get a suit. If you actually make it into a fraternity you’ll need one.
Im going to carolina next year and have heard these are the top at usc. KA, KE, SAE, EN, EX, ATO
can anyone on hear tell me what they think of those chapters
one thing i think every freshman joining a fraternity should know about is sep yelling, i think this has been left out and is an incredibly important part of the college careers of all truly fratty males. for those young ones who dont know, sep yelling is the act of walking or driving by your respective campus’ sep dorm and screaming at them at all hours of the night or day to let them know they are seps, and not males, and throwing things through there windows. truly an enjoyable part of my life, especially because our lot is across the street from their dorm.
i already have 2 suits, but i need a new blazer for football games, etc. right?
jimmybuffet, i’m familiar with the concept you speak of…however i’ve never heard the term ‘Sep’ being used. what is it derived from? i’m guessing it’s a breed of GDI douchebag
William III,
Over the summer, definitely purchase some items that will boost your hopefully already fratty wardrobe to a new level. Blazers, bowties (especially those from Southern Proper), and suits are my favorties for game day attire. I, personally, love seeing guys sporting seersucker.
Now, I have a question for ya’ll. I have the option of two amazing schools to transfer to: Ole Miss or Alabama. Pros and cons?
Anonymous, you obviously don’t know what you’re talking about. Do you know how many people from Westminster go to UGA every year? A ton. Granted, there are all the ivies, W&L, Vandy, UVA and Duke, etc., but someone isn’t considered less old money because they chose to go to an SEC school. If they have so much money that they can count on the good ole boy network for when they get out of school, it doesn’t matter where they went to school. Also, Duke, Emory and Tulane are basically northern schools stuck in the South, so any true fratter wouldn’t go to those schools. And Old Money exists in any big city in the South, not just the ones you mentioned.
Southern Belle, where are you transferring from? I guess you’ve never been to the Grove, or you would already know the answer to your question.
If I saw a pledge wearing a bowtie at a game I would pour my drink on his head, tell him to get back to the house to clean up for the band party, and get ready for me to blade a shovel across his back after said band party.
I’m a Chi O from UTK. I’d be affiialiting of course wherever I decide to go.
I’ve been a diehard Ole Miss fan since I was a little girl. I had the cheerleading outfits and everything. But, all my close friends from high school go to Bama. I guess what would really make an impact on my decision is if I knew the “inside” scoop. How do girls dress, how do guys act, etc. What’s a typical game day like? What are the top sororities and frats at Ole Miss?
If I saw you pouring a drink on pledge for wearing a bow tie, I’d pour my drink on your head to wash the gel out and invite your pledge to experience a real fraternity that embraces the sporting of the bow tie at a game day tailgate.
Chi O at Ole Miss is definitely one of the best.
Very few individuals can pull off a bow tie and reluctantly most of you probably aren’t one of those few. So please, stop. I know in your Sig Ep pledge manuals all that was “fratty” was categorized for you so you wouldn’t look like a complete douche when going out, but please, stop trying so god damned hard. No matter what you wear, you’ll always be third tier.
Throw yourselves down stairs
Respectfully,
The Mongoose
Respectfully, quit calling yourself The Mongoose, that’s third tier. I expect the rest of whatever chapter of whatever fraternity you are in is also third tier, since you are surrounded by individuals that apparently can’t pull off a bow tie. Perhaps you’re located in the north and haven’t experienced a Southern gentleman wearing a properly tied bow tie while sipping on Woodford Reserve at a game day tailgate or horse race.
All due respect, naturally. Just wanted to set you straight.
I don’t think region has much to do with it, “the mongoose” is just not fratty. More than likely a GDI. He refers to himself in 3rd person(TDM), has used “LOL” & “LoLzers” on this site multiple times that i’ve noticed, and all he seems to be good at is telling people to go kill themselves(etc.). Someone should give him his pokemon cards and frisbees back so we all don’t have to listen to him bitch on this site.
no one answered my question. are navy blazers with gold buttons standard for pledges on gameday?
for some houses, yes, that is pretty standard to see. really though, this might not be the best place to find your answer. my recommendation: consult well-tenured fratdaddies in your house/school or look at pictures from last year’s gamedays. if you see pledges wearing navy blazers, there’s your answer. if not, don’t risk douchebaggery by wearing one. i hope this answered your question.
This coming from a kid who uses “TDM”.
My third tier house =Buen Retiro, 300 West 27th, Austin, TX
Let’s hear it if you know what I’m talking about
I’d say 300 West 27th is about as far away from third tier as a house can be.
William III,
It depends if your fraternity requires you to wear blazers on gameday or not. If they do, wear what you feel is fratty, but just make sure you don’t look like a douche. Navy blue blazer, white/blue polo, khaki pants, have always been a staple “fratty” image of the fraternal world.
-Fratteras in New Orleans
Don’t try to talk down to The Mongoose, he is frattier than your dad.
Readers,
What are your “fratty” plans for the Fourth of July?
-Fratteras in New Orleans
True story
Whats the deal with frattysouth? Anyone? Anybody at all?
i have the same question as “GA Fratter”
what the hell is a “sep”? a type of gdi?
wow, someone showed me this site earlier this week. im speechless. all i have to say is that everyone here most likely blows and im not talking about coke.
lets all go to a website and read about “fratting.” did your dad not tell you how to act and be greek or could you not follow his ways because his family was poor and he was new money? regardless, you are all here reading these articles trying to learn everything that the best of us already know. good luck trying to catch up. we need no websites, you copy us. I feel violated.
does your family have boats for those boat shoes?
i hope those costas are treating you well, you most likely dont even fish multiple times a year.
why do you wear crokies every single day? is it so you dont loose those sunglasses that were out of your price range in the first place? you need renegades you broke-ass.
you all probably try way too hard. have fun pretending and thinking about my life. im sure you’ll figure it out and post it on the internet.
oh and about GDI’s: I’d rather hangout with quality people than low-tiers like yourselves.
good luck “fratting”
All hail to the frat god. please dont tell me that you are from Texas though too.
Why discuss “fratty” plans for the 4th? And that guy is right, some of you kids take this shit too seriously. I would bet that 99% of the guys that want to talk about how to frat dont see the humor in the conversation and are ATO’s
2414 Pearl St. is more like it.
The blue blazer with gold buttons is still the pledge gameday standard, and is a classy tradition that will hopefully live on for years to come.
To rcp-
We’re sorry you didn’t get a bid. Better luck in your future endeavors.
Per usual, Prof. Neidermeyer (Doug after you golf with him and the Dean and few times, naturally) is his brilliant self. The Blue blazer with gold buttons is a classic. I have a Ralph Lauren one I’m quite fond of, although Brooks Bros. also does a good job.
As for the “sep” question, I believe it is a combination of “Sig” and “Ep,” thus a slang term for the Kiwanis club known to some as Sigma Phi Epsilon. I don’t know about the chapters at your schools, but I know that where I go the Seps (or “Spee”s) don’t even go through pledgeship. I needn’t tell you how douchy that is.
Gentlemen, I give you Spee, the Kia of frats.
“kia of frats”…i like it
anyway, more sport coat choices would be austin reed and hart shafner marx. those are the two i prefer, but polo and bb make nice coats as well
the problem with 2414 Pearl St. is that its an SAE house, so no, 2414 Pearl St. is not “more like it”
most of the sigeps i know are pretty fratty, not the frattiest but fratty no less. i have, however, noticed a common thread of douchebaggery in a different house
gentlemen, phi delt eclipses any other in douchebaggery as they pride themselves on being DRY! they’re douching so hard they are making John & Lee Hotti look fratty by comparison. i award PDT with the trophy of “Civic Hybrid of Frats”
I don’t know what rock you have been living under for the last 100 years or so, but Phi Delt’s are the frattiest people around. Not only do we shack with hot sorostitutes nightly, but we have the best “dry” parties (you obviously haven’t been priviledged to attend one) in the LARGEST FRATERNITY HOUSE IN THE NATION. If I remember correctly, the only two claims to fame that Sig Ep has are spending more money on hair gel than Barry Bonds spends on steroids, and locking pledges under staircases and hurling frozen eggs at them. Classy, pledgefetchmeabeer, classy.
Now instead of unreasonably attacking the Fraternity which you apparently have no clue about, make some productive comments about how to frat harder- the reason why everyone is here.
Talking frat smack on frattinghard.com…really makes your houses look good, let me tell ya
anonymous-
i’m not a member of that fraternity(spe). i am a Kappa Sig, SEC. go drink a wine cooler.
Although our house may be dry, the girls are still wet
To the girls asking about Ole Miss and Alabama…
You really can’t go wrong with either. Ole Miss is nationally known as the definition of a deep south university. The Grove is a college football landmark. If you go there, you won’t regret it. Alabama is similar to Ole Miss. The greek system here at UA is outstanding. And Alabama gamedays when playing SEC schools are as good as it gets.
The best way I can put is this…Ole Miss is what other universities should strive to be like as far as the greek system is concerned. Alabama is right behind Ole Miss in that category. Not quite as good as Ole Miss, but very close.
And as for ranking fraternities, it is impossible. Every chapter is different. While my chapter is a damn good one, the few others I’ve been to were not so great.
“Although our house may be dry, the girls are still wet”
That’s the most GDI statement ever made. Congratulations.
hayden fox:
you obviously are a sep lover, and therefore have lost all credibility at your local campus and have reduced yourself to checking frattinghard.com between your 48 hour world of warcraft binges. your family is probably poor.
pledgefetchmeabeer:
squigs are right between teaks and kappa alpha psi on the social ladder, in life and on campus. truly your ignorant father has negatively affected you growing up, im sorry he didnt get his promotion to night manager at the local wal-mart, but its not your fault your family is truly classless, and thus there is still a chance for you. phi delts are dry nationally because there are a bunch of northern houses associated with our great fraternity and therefore they decided that dry was the way to go. well, while our national fraternity may support it, our southern brothers do not abide. oh, the sticker is peeling off your hurley hat, its time to get a new one, hope your wakeboarding tournament is fun this week, douche.
hot guy sex…
Just stopped to say hello. I like your blog and it came from your heart. Beautiful!…
Sig Ep is just not good, I’m sorry. The Sig Ep’s who were in my english class (they were pledges) repeatedly wore oakleys,and these were the kind that were rimless on the bottom of the lens (shudder), and leather jackets or corduroy american eagle type jackets, and their hair was really long and shaggy and gay. this was at alabama, for the record.
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