Prepular, A blog for frat boys and their fans

What makes fraternities and sororities so popular? The unmistakable sexual energy in the greek houses? The wild parties? The ample supply of alochol? The need to be part of an alliance?

For one young woman who just turned 18, she relied on her sisters for nurturing and intimacy. Soon after joining the sorority, she lost her virginity to a frat member, in a "non traditional" way.

Ledge parties, for those of you who didn’t attend party-school universities, featured fraternity boys luring their unsuspecting companions to a lair of choice, where they engineered some semblance of sex for the viewing enjoyment of their voyeuristic brethren, who watched from the window’s ledge. Unlike typical fraternity houses, these were contemporary buildings with plate glass windows and wide ledges that formed perfect viewing platforms.

I suspect mine was one of the duller productions, but, alas, I remember none of it. I learned later that some sympathetic brothers had objected to the spectacle and pulled me from the wreckage, which, to me, was remarkable.

Ledge parties weren’t merely tolerated in the fraternities — they were rewarded with knowing winks and backslaps. But my date had crossed a line: Apparently the fraternal code of ethics only approved of the performances when the girls were conscious (albeit still unaware they were being watched).

Long story short, a frat brother stepped in and stopped the show half-way. Her date apologised and dropped out of school. Just as she thought this was the end to a somewhat unwanted drama in her college life, her own sororoties sisters started to gossip about the fallout and blamed her, the supposedly victim, for all the troubles caused. What made her really upset, was that the very women that she trusted the most turned away, made her feel dirty, and betrayed her at a time she needed them the most. At the end, the sorority asked her the leave.

Then, some 20-odd years later, they saw each other again.

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I found this awesome sorority documentary. It addresses questions like:

What is going on behind the rush scene?

How do fraternities view sororities?

How does facebook play into all these?

One of video comments goes like this:

Fraternities tend to breed a chauvinistic male-male love established in large part through promotion of heterosexual male dominance over differently gendered or gender-identifying people. Through engaging in often sexualized initiation and hazing rites (yes, hazing does occur in frats at Northwestern), some fraternities, by no means all, are engaging in homoerotic behavior for the purpose of establishing heterosexual male supremacy over their peers. Isn’t that kind of ironic?

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Of All The Fish In The Sea, Prom With Me

Thank You

Free Cookies and Milk

Fully Charged and Ready to Party

I'm a Proud Sorority Girl

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Liz Handlin, alumnae of Kappa Alpha Theta, shares her view on the sorority rushing process, its similarities with job hunting, and what people can do in both to win the game.

Sorority rush at big schools is an interesting process and as I was watching the proceedings it occurred to me that interviewees and interviewers in corporate America could learn a lot from sorority rush.

Potential new sorority members who enter the house smiling, happy, and poised have a better chance of impressing actives than those who look scared, unhappy, or unsure of themselves. It seemed pretty obvious from my vantage point which of the rushees would have a good shot at being invited back for a second party. I could be wrong about some of the girls of course...some of the girls who were quiet or less enthusiastic may have gotten a call back. However, generally speaking, no one likes to be around a sourpuss or someone who doesn't seem confident.

I was a hiring manager for many years and I can say with certainty that candidates who are friendly, polite, and confident have a better chance of getting a job than those who aren't. When interviewing for anything put your insecurities (we all have them!) aside and put forth a confident and happy persona. It will work wonders.

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I almost missed this one.

Troubled by the declining membership, the Delta Zeta sorority at DePauw University sent letters to members that they deemed not attractive enough, and asked them to leave the sorority and vacate from the house. All the non-whites were also asked to pack their bags. When questioned by a New York times reporter, Delta Zeta's PR representative claimed that "the isolated incident at DePauw has been mischaracterized".

DePauw’s president, Robert G. Bottoms, later issued a two-page letter of reprimand to the sorority. In the end, DePauw disbanded the Delta Zeta chapter altogether.

Apparently this is the microcosm of how the game is played in the society as a whole, as Sororities and Fraternities are often seen as status competitions. If you can guzzle an impressive amount of alcohol, if you are hot AND snobbish, if you buy the right clothes and hang out with the right group, and if you join a frat / sorority, your status goes up. This is how most people see it. The point I want to make is, although it is easy to exclude people who are different or "less desirable", extreme measures like evicting people using looks as the single measurement is not only downright unreasonable, it gives the organization a bad name. I was heartened by the report that half of the slim, white girls who were not kicked out of the DePauw sorority quit in protest.

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So you are planning to take part in the greek life, here are some resources from people who have been there, done that:

40 year old and still loving her sorority, is that normal?

Join a Frat?

Rude Frat behavior?

Dating a Sorority girl?

How do I choose which sorority to join?

Does joining a frat give you a lot of connections after college?

Do girls prefer frat guys?

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This has got to be one of the funniest, most ridiculous impersonation sorority video.

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One very funny story about a fraternity guy and a "STD" girl...(via Pitt News)

Ah, the second semester of the year. Finally settled into dorms and apartments, the lines at the bookstore have dwindled down to the slacking few and students can be spotted nodding off in classrooms across campus already.

To the eager freshmen who survived their arrival here at Pitt in the fall, I commend you. You have passed your first test. No doubt your parents assisted you in this feat, your mother breaking down in tears as she made your bed, your father pulling you close for a warm embrace and asking if you need more money before they drove away.

Yeah, that'll change.

Entering my junior year, last fall I had the joy of moving into Bouquet Gardens. This time around, my parents slowed the car just enough for me to grab some of my belongings before tucking and rolling out onto the pavement as they flung the rest of my stuff after me, using the back of my head as a target.

But listen, my children, and you shall hear the embarrassing tale of my freshman year, and why this drop-off at Pitt was a welcome adjustment.

The braces had barely been popped off my teeth as I sat in the front seat between my parents, grinning idiotically at the big, bad world of the University of Pittsburgh as we entered what my parents still refer to as the "big city" of Oakland. After a mere hour or two of looping around Forbes and Fifth trying to find the Litchfield Towers - yeah, it was that pitiful - we pulled into a parking lot loaded with fraternity brothers in brightly colored Arrival Survival shirts.

My parents climbed out and I slid across the bench seat, stumbling out of the car, all the while staring at a fraternity brother who appeared to have a beautiful aura about him. The brothers pointed my mother and me toward the Towers to rent a cart, and offered to help my dad unload the car.

I walked to the lobby in a daze, fantasizing about the gorgeous fraternity brother offering his family's prize cow and $500 to my father in exchange for my hand in marriage. So this is what college was like. Life was beautiful.

Five minutes or so later, give or take 30 seconds, my mother and I arrived back at the car, rented cart and key to my room in tow. The fraternity brothers helped load my belongings into the cart and offered further assistance in helping us to my room.

Miracle of miracles, I ended up pulling up the rear with the love of my life, who turned to me in our first stolen moment of privacy and passionately whispered:

"So, you wrote a speech about sexually transmitted diseases in high school, eh?"

Followed by a snicker and an elbow jab to his frat buddy.

I was nothing short of mortified. In the five minutes that I had left my future husband, my father had revealed the dorkiest secret of my life: I had not only written a speech in high school about sexually transmitted diseases and the alarming prevalence among teenagers, but I also competed in public speaking tournaments with it. Why didn't my dad tell him I was captain of the Reading Team and led them to three consecutive first place wins in junior high while he was at it?

A sort of numbness took over my body. I know that my face must have been glowing the red color of the neon sign for the "O."

I barely noticed that my father did not allow anyone else on the elevator once we finally got one, manning it as though he were the Skipper on a private vessel to the 20th floor of Tower B. Or the fact that he tipped each fraternity brother a dollar for his help.

I'd like to tell you that I became a well-adjusted Pitt student following that tragic day, but it's simply not true. To this day, whenever I see a brother from that fraternity, he is sure to yell:

"Hey, STD girl!"

I swear a freshman that I have never met did it just the other day.

So, congratulations well-adjusted freshmen. And remember to keep the tuck-and-roll drop-off in mind for next year. After all, it's never too late for a dad to mark you with a scarlet letter - or three.

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Would you put your girlfriend / boyfriend before your fraternity / sorority?

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I don't know how many chapters have formal pinning or lavaliering ceremony. I read an old article from Penn State which they cite their frat members would "pole" the brother who has lavaliered, strip him naked, while other members thrown food at him. Of course, each fraternity / sorority has its very own rituals. I know many sororities do candle passes, usually for lavaliering / pinning / engagement or getting knocked up (whichever comes first!).

Question for guys: Would you ever give your pin to your girlfriend?

Question for girls: Would you ever lavalier a guy? Do you think guys and girls view the lavalier differently?

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Have you ever encountered a sticky situation of your members don't pay dues on time? Members not paying their dues affect the financial and housing stability of a chapter, yet it is not always easy to find someone to be the bad guy to collect money (and it is not always effective). I know many chapters use a billing service called Omega Financial, it claims to increase the net income of chapters AFTER the fees.

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New Greek chapters are established every month! This is a guide to help you set up your chapter's website with minimal hassles and cash.

1. Choose a hosting service provider. It could be free (e.g. Geocities) or paid (Yahoo paid hosting, ipowerweb etc). A very limited national greek organizations provide web hosting for their chapters, it maybe worthwhile to check out the national site to see if this service is available. Since most hosting services only charge a few dollars per month, it is actually more desirable to go professional especially you want to be able to run scripts on your site (more of that later) Blogger.com or Wordpress.com is a good place to start your chapter's blog if you have a small budget and have limited technical skills, the ads are not as intrusive as other free service providers. Try to stay away from Geocities or Tripods as they usually come with an excessive amount of ads on the pages.

2. Create content. No one wants to visit your site unless there is something for them. No one wants to read a 10-page essay too. The most common contents may include event photos and stories. If you use Blogger or wordpress then you don't even need html skills, you can easily post photos, add yotube video. If you decide to create pages from the scratch using html, css etc, try the tutorials at HTML goodies , they cover topics like how to align texts, create columns etc. There are lots of free web templates out there that you can use too, just search "web template" in google and you shall find. If you host your own site, you can install novelty scripts such as dating, quotes etc.

Regardless whether you host your own site or use a free service, you can always find free, third party hosted forums and galleries to add to your site. Flickr.com is a good photo gallery provider. Don't underestimate how powerful photos are for promotional purposes, if your chapter is engaged in building a new house, hosting a charity event or even planning a co-ed sleep over party, the photos can easily attract prospective members and alumni to be involved in what you're doing.

3. Get free links. Make sure you ask your student body to put a link up from their site, usually under the clubs and society page. Some colleges may be willing to help you promote your chapter by putting a link up from their faculty website, provided your site is related (e.g. if your fraternity is Chemistry focused you may ask the Chemistry department to put a link up for you, try to approach the "student activity coordinator")

Labels: college, fraternity, how to create websites, sorority, university, websites