We pride ourselves on fostering a healthy balance between the rigorous academic demands of our majors, being involved and active within the campus community, and engaging in a fun social life! Our goal is to serve our sisters and the community alike by promoting high standards of personal integrity, respect and character, lifelong bonds of friendship, and an appreciation for diversity and inclusion.
We do not, but plenty of our chapters at other schools do.My name is Shea Zenker, and I am so excited to be serving as the president of the Nu chapter of Phi Sigma Rho here at UCLA! Phi Sigma Rho is an associate Panhellenic sorority for women and non-binary folks in the hard science and engineering fields. The extent to which houses at UCLA dirty rush is hard to tell, though most people in my house think that most fraternities here do it. IFC is mainly the traditional social fraternities that were founded 100+ years ago, though UCLA's IFC does have the Indian fraternity and two Jewish houses in it, too.Īs a rushee, you can tell if a house dirty rushes if anyone offers you alcohol, or invites you back later for a special event, after the main rush event has happened. The IFC fraternities are, in general, not ethnically exclusive. There are "hapas" (half-Asians) in some of the said fraternities, though. I guess you could go to rush events for an Asian interest fraternity and see what happens, but you'd feel a bit out of place. There's also black interest fraternities, as well as several Jewish houses (which are a part of IFC) and a recently-founded Southern Asian (Indian) fraternity. in 1989) so they probably come from a time when diversity wasn't embraced so much. However, they're somewhat old (one of the houses was est. I'm not real big on the idea, either, and it does kind of bother me. Yes, there are "Asian interest" fraternities and sororities.
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If you've read this far, thank you, and if you have any more questions about rushing or UCLA in general, feel free to e-mail me at Also, I'm in Pi Kappa Phi for those wondering, so make sure to check us out when you come to LA. Knowing that you have 50+ brothers is very satisfying and is a great thing. The greek system will definitely get you involved, it offers cheap housing, and can be very rewarding. Ask lots of questions, listen to how guys talk about girls, especially, and see if they do anything shady like offer rushees alcohol. Ultimately, for guys, rush! Get out there, especially during the fall, shop aroound, so to speak, and check out different houses. It's especially bad in Asian fraternities and sororities, though, so be forewarned. Hazing is not too bad in IFC (Interfraternity Council - the traditional social fraternities), though each house is different. It's illegal and immoral, and I don't understand why good, intelligent people submit themselves to it. Hazing only strengthens the bonds within a pledge class, and alienates you from older brothers. Often they reassure themselves and tell themselves that they will soon be done and can "return the favor" to the next quarter's pledges. Guys that pledge under a hazing system, for some reason, will often stick with it. During the pledge period, the hazing will get gradually more tough and sometimes will be humiliating. Most common of these is hazing, which most people before joining a fraternity thing is wrong. It's very common to see guys that join houses and will stay with it even though it goes against many of their core beliefs. Īlso, if you decide to pledge a house, remember your values beforehand.
Houses that dirty rush are more likely to ignore other regulations and be rule breakers, which is bad in the greek system. (Dirty rushing means rushees are given alcohol at any time during the formal rush period.) Although you may think that's it cool at the time that the guy's hooking up you with some free beer, ultimately it's a bad sign. Each house has good guys in it, but many houses are just about partying and socializing.įor those that will rush when you come to UCLA, be very skeptical of houses that "dirty" rush.
I warn new UCLA admits (congrats!, btw), though, that the greek system is not perfect. Additionally, it gives me a framework to (positively) pressure me to keep my grades up and be a gentleman. It has gotten me involved in many things on campus that I otherwise would not have done. My experience with my fraternity has been excellent. Type I is a guy that plans on joining a fraternity, type II is someone that is a bit interested but not necessarily planning on joining, and type III is a person that things fraternities are hell incarnate. I was what recruiters call a type II guy. Hi, I'm a Freshman at UCLA that was just initiated into a fraternity in the fall.
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