Reply #63: I was in one.... at an engineering school. [View All]

[Benfea]

Fraternities and sororities at an engineering school are an entirely different animal from what you'd find at normal universities. I've talked to people about what greeks are like at normal schools, and I'd never go for that, but I loved my experiences in my fraternity and the greek system at my school.

On top of that, my national fraternity (Phi Kappa Sigma) was the first fraternity to put in its constitution rules against selecting members based on race. I know Alpha Phi Alpha claims to be the first in that regard, but we did it before the civil war, before Alpha Phi Alpha ever existed.

I can imagine what it would have taken to make such a change during the 1960s, but those must've been some mighty brave men to make such a change before the civil war.