Around the house I would say fraternity, but outside of it I said both. It goes back to how serious you take "fraternities," I just didn't really care.
bump. here's a good question. i'm a junior at westminster college, fulton mo, and as i've stated on here before, i'm a phi delt up here. westminster is quite possibly one of the few colleges left in america (probably less than 10) where we still do a formal recruitment. this is how it was done way back when, where basically everyone interested in joining a fraternity visits each and every house on campus, and then chooses based on that, as compared to other schools where out of the 20 or so fraternities, you may get a call from 3 or 4 and don't hear from the others. we just finished formal rush literally about 20 minutes ago, and i'm just curious as to how many others have gone through this? i've gotta say, it's a hell of a lot of work, but it's definitely fun.
SAE at Illinois. The Chapter was folded a couple years ago and is now reorganizing. Personally, I never got the sensitivity about people calling a fraternity "frat". Who cares? With all the butchering and phoeneticizing of the English language today, why does this cause such annoyance?
Never went greek. But I did find being a 365 owner and a member of the FCA did have fringe benefits with sorority chicks...
I say frat. all the time. I think the problem comes in what you mean by it when you say it. If you say "my frat. is having a party tonight," there is nothing wrong with that; especially if you are a greek. If you aren't greek and insulting them by saying "frat's are for drunk horny as$holes", than that is insulting. Sigma Phi Epsilon (West Chester, Pa.)
At Illinois it was a little different, at least for us. We had over 50 fraternities, and ours was really an eclectic mix. Half of everyone's friends were from other houses or GDIs, and there wasn't any of that "us or them" mentality with our house.
