Any college fraternity people here?

[BillVol]

Phi Beta Sigma

guru, my roommate my frosh year at Tennessee was a Phi Beta Sigma. I went to several step shows with him, as a spectator of course! Great fun and memories.

[dukehjsteve]

Back in MY DAY ( early 60's ) being in a fraternity was the "in" thing, and the best outlet for a decent social life ( aka as PARTIES )

I was in the same frat ( all different schools ) as 1) a 3 medal winner ( all different colors) in 1956 OG plus another medal at 52 OG, and also 2) a 4 medal winner ( all same color) in 4 consecutive OG's.

There, I've now named the 2 best ever Delta Tau Delta tracksters ( other than myself of course). With the hints I gave, let's see someone name both of them.

[Guest]

I was in the same frat ( all different schools ) as 1) a 3 medal winner ( all different colors) in 1956 OG plus another medal at 52 OG, and also 2) a 4 medal winner ( all same color) in 4 consecutive OG's.

There, I've now named the 2 best ever Delta Tau Delta tracksters ( other than myself of course). With the hints I gave, let's see someone name both of them.

Al Oerter was 2)

[dukehjsteve]

I was in the same frat ( all different schools ) as 1) a 3 medal winner ( all different colors) in 1956 OG plus another medal at 52 OG, and also 2) a 4 medal winner ( all same color) in 4 consecutive OG's.

There, I've now named the 2 best ever Delta Tau Delta tracksters ( other than myself of course). With the hints I gave, let's see someone name both of them.

Al Oerter was 2)

That of course is correct for 2), now let's see someone get 1).

[tandfman]

I was in the same frat ( all different schools ) as 1) a 3 medal winner ( all different colors) in 1956 OG plus another medal at 52 OG, and also 2) a 4 medal winner ( all same color) in 4 consecutive OG's.

There, I've now named the 2 best ever Delta Tau Delta tracksters ( other than myself of course). With the hints I gave, let's see someone name both of them.

Al Oerter was 2)

That of course is correct for 2), now let's see someone get 1).

Thane Baker.

[dukehjsteve]

That's correct , tandfman !

[nbonaddio]

Re: Any college fraternity people here?

I was not in a frat in college. In fact I despise them. My dad was a Kappa Sig, though, at Illinois. He's still big into all that stuff. I think colleges would be better off without the frats.

Not that anyone is particularly interested in hearing my collegiate biography, but I'm a brother of Kappa Delta Rho, more efficiently known as KDR. I went and recently graduated from Carnegie Mellon, which is a very competitive academic school..so for me a lot of it was a work hard, play hard mentality. I pledged rather quickly, as I realized that the majority of students at CMU were..socially maladjusted at best, and the administration of the university was far less concerned about finding social outlets for its students than it was securing lucrative research grants. Most of the parties on the weekends were centered around the fraternity quad, and the brothers in the fraternities shared more of my interests (sports, interaction with females, etc.) than the non-Greek community. Eventually my house became a bit of a track and field house, which was interesting because it was very odd to see half of the brothers partying like crazy on Friday nights, whereas the other half would be going to bed at 10 PM.

It's odd now that I think about it - almost everyone I knew in my fraternity said they never thought they'd be the type of person to be in a fraternity. Then again, we were at Carnegie Mellon - not exactly Penn State. One of the downsides was that the Greek community was relatively insular; I dated mostly sorority girls (TriDelts always made the best ones..) and most of my friends were in other houses. Being Greek afforded me a lot of experiences I wouldn't have otherwise had, and allowed me to participate in a lot of activities I wouldn't otherwise done..so yeah, good times.

[nbonaddio]

Back in MY DAY ( early 60's ) being in a fraternity was the "in" thing, and the best outlet for a decent social life ( aka as PARTIES )

I was in the same frat ( all different schools ) as 1) a 3 medal winner ( all different colors) in 1956 OG plus another medal at 52 OG, and also 2) a 4 medal winner ( all same color) in 4 consecutive OG's.

There, I've now named the 2 best ever Delta Tau Delta tracksters ( other than myself of course). With the hints I gave, let's see someone name both of them.

DTD!


I'm..I'm..I'm sorry, I can't ever take any of your posts seriously again.

:lol:

[DrJay]

Carnegie Mellon (high brain-power school) reminded me of a time I went to Boston for part of spring break. I stayed at the Sigma Chi house at MIT. A lot of beer was consumed at Carolina, but apparently not much at MIT. The MIT bros had a mixer with a girls' dorm or a sorority one night out at Wesleyn College and I went along. They talked about picking up "the keg", whereas in Chapel Hill it would have been the truck delivering five or six of them. I had four or five beers over two hours before wandering off to find my college roommate's ex, who was a student there. Next day, one of the MIT guys says, "Wow, you were really pounding the suds last night" and I thought, "All in a spring break evening's work, and I'm one of the average to lighter drinkers at our chapter," which just goes to show a lot of us probaby drank a bit too much in college.

[dukehjsteve]

The above thread alluding to kegs at Carolina brings me a good memory from an experience I had in Chapel Hill one night while a Dukie 8 miles up the road.

Can't remember what House, but I was in the basement of some Frat at Carolina one night, and it was quite late which also means many people were quite drunk by then. I was standing at the bottom of the basement stairway when some guy at the top yelled " Watch Out !" Just then a full untapped keg a beer whistled past my head and went through the wall like it was a sheet of paper. Another inch and my head would have been in several pieces !

[nbonaddio]

Carnegie Mellon (high brain-power school) reminded me of a time I went to Boston for part of spring break. I stayed at the Sigma Chi house at MIT. A lot of beer was consumed at Carolina, but apparently not much at MIT. The MIT bros had a mixer with a girls' dorm or a sorority one night out at Wesleyn College and I went along. They talked about picking up "the keg", whereas in Chapel Hill it would have been the truck delivering five or six of them. I had four or five beers over two hours before wandering off to find my college roommate's ex, who was a student there. Next day, one of the MIT guys says, "Wow, you were really pounding the suds last night" and I thought, "All in a spring break evening's work, and I'm one of the average to lighter drinkers at our chapter," which just goes to show a lot of us probaby drank a bit too much in college.

Well, as I suspect was the case at MIT, the general idea at CMU wasn't necessarily about volume, it was about speed..and with many MechE and CivE eggheads around, some innovations were definitely being made. When you're studying your head off most of the day - or in my case, running up the hills of Schenley Park after studying my head off - you definitely need to let loose when the time comes.

I would guess out of a house of roughly 50, a weekend's output would be in the range of four kegs.

[nbonaddio]

Carnegie Mellon (high brain-power school) reminded me of a time I went to Boston for part of spring break. I stayed at the Sigma Chi house at MIT. A lot of beer was consumed at Carolina, but apparently not much at MIT. The MIT bros had a mixer with a girls' dorm or a sorority one night out at Wesleyn College and I went along. They talked about picking up "the keg", whereas in Chapel Hill it would have been the truck delivering five or six of them. I had four or five beers over two hours before wandering off to find my college roommate's ex, who was a student there. Next day, one of the MIT guys says, "Wow, you were really pounding the suds last night" and I thought, "All in a spring break evening's work, and I'm one of the average to lighter drinkers at our chapter," which just goes to show a lot of us probaby drank a bit too much in college.

Actually, now that I think about it, I know both MIT and CMU can claim alcohol poisoning fatalities, not to mention the other deaths that were at least tertially caused by alcohol. I don't know what it's like at MIT, but I definitely know CMU took a blind eye to a lot of incidents, simply refusing to do anything by way of organizing events and social interaction amongst students.

[tandfman]

Like DrJay's fraternity, mine eschewed physically demanding hazing, but we did inflict some form of pain on our pledges. One year, we confined them to a large room at the fraternity and played "Bolero" non-stop for something like 24 hours. The brothers, of course, could and did rotate shifts so after an hour or two on duty we could clear our heads. (We also had the advantage of controlling when it was going to end.) Another year we did the same thing with Chinese opera, which can be absolutely excruciating to listen to.

Most of my brothers are now professionals--doctors, dentists, lawyers, professors, engineers.

As far as I know, none of my fraternity brothers have had anything to do with this:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123456310592185753.html

. . . the U.S. military uses loud music to soften up detainees who refuse to talk about their terrorist activities.

[Marlow]

we did inflict some form of pain on our pledges. One year, we confined them to a large room at the fraternity and played "Bolero" non-stop for something like 24 hours. . . . Another year we did the same thing with Chinese opera, which can be absolutely excruciating to listen to.

Most of my brothers are now professionals--doctors, dentists, lawyers, professors, engineers.

This must explain why so many 'professionals' like to inflict pain on the rest of us!!!

[mike renfro]

I'll fess up, I was Pi Kappa Alpha at Wazzu in late 50s-early 60s. Mostly we partied and played poker. Not in the league with Animal House tho. I wasn't terribly active in the chapter, but over the course of my time at WSU 59-69 (4 years out in middle for US Army, lost a semester at both ends) I probably lived at the house a total of two years.