Have You ever Been a member of a Secret Society or Frat?

[Khephra]

Poll question: Have You ever Been a member of a Secret Society or Frat?

Masons, Skull and Bones, Scroll and Pen, AA, OTO, GD, IOT...etc...

[goobergunch]

1. Does DU count?

:evilgrin:

Other than here, not really.

[JVS]

2. Phi Beta Kappa was once a secret society. I am a member of that.

www.pbk.org

[bluestateguy]

11. PBK snubbed me

Evidently a 3.72 GPA and graduation with high honors was not enough for them.

I remember this snub everytime my alma mater asks me for money.

[JVS]

12. Many chapters have a course distribution requirement.

What is the name of the institution and what year?

[bluestateguy]

14. Brandeis University 1998

Their explantion to me was not satisfactory, but I am used to being underrated as an academician. I am the Rafael Palmero of academia.

[LTR]

3. Yep

Sigma Nu here.

Enjoyed it. Great bunch of guys. Some of them even vote Democrat.

And no, I'm not ashamed of being in a fraternity.

[Khephra]

4. I guess I should put my creds here

OTO, Masons, AA...on the doorway of being a Deacon in th EGC at one point. Almost an IOTer. (starting something new...shhhhhhh)

[BrotherBuzz]

28. deleted

[DarkPhenyx]

5. Yeah, I was in a Frat. Well sorta.

We weren't part of the Greeks though. We were part of the Romans, the anti-Greeks. I was a Pershing Rifleman. Kinda the militant arm of the Romans. :)

PEE Slash ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. Only sorority I belonged to was GDI.

God damned independent.

[Rashind]

7. Does masturbating a lot count?

I kept it secret from my parents for several years. :evilgrin:

[Khephra]

8. That's the Society of the Palm

They meet in the Lounge during the days. Matcom is their Grand Kitten Killer. Tell him I said Hi! ;-)

[Blue-Jay]

9. I wouldn't call it "secret"

I was a founding member of my college's chapter of Kappa Kappa Si. Also a member of Phi Mu Alpha. (both music-related service frats). Phi Beta Kappa as well.

I guess I missed out on all the whacky whacky hijinks of social fraternity life. Then again, I missed out on the hazing, raping ,and drinking until you die.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

10. DAMMIT THE HELL KEPH!! I can't tell you!

It's a secret

[Khephra]

13. That's ok...

Just give me the grip and sign and we will all know without you telling.

LOL

:evilgrin:

[smiley_glad_hands]

15. I am an alumnus of TKE

Which includes Ronny Reagan, Sen. Robert Byrd, Elvis (honorary), and Merv Griffith among others (Dem and Repug). My wife had a 3.7 at the Phi Beta Kappa alpha chapter and didn't get in, she hates the social greeks, but still married me for some reason.

[flamingyouth]

19. I didn't know Elvis was an honorary TKE!

That's great.

We just have Lynda Johnson Robb and Mary Anne Mobley to our name. Pretty sad, really!

[LTR]

20. Famous aumni

I count Lloyd Bentsen, Boyd Tinsley (Dave Matthews Band), Harrison Ford, Archie and Eli Manning, Al Michaels, Pat Riley, Cy Young, and Bob Barker as fraternity brothers.

Unfortunatey, Trent Lott is also a Sigma Nu :(

[flamingyouth]

22. Some of my best friends in college were Sigma Nus

Very cool guys, all liberal with great taste in books and music. Nice to women. I still stay in touch with a few of them. Good guys - I approve (he he he) :hi:

[LTR]

25. Yep, sounds like Sigma Nu :)

Except for Trent Lott.

[flamingyouth]

26. Yeah, well, he's a dick

We can forgive the rest of you! :D

[smiley_glad_hands]

29. Sigma Nu

Where did you go to college at? All the Sigma Nu's I knew were all Army ROTC. Also, as I understand it, if you go to Va Military Institute you are an honorary Sigma Nu. I didn't know too many liberal Sigma Nu's. Just curious, maybe its a left coast right coast thing?

[LTR]

32. Minnesota-Mankato

And the VMI story is not true. Several fraternities (including ATO) were founded there.

And chapters seem to vary a lot and develop their own personalities.

[flamingyouth]

35. U of Washington

Our house was always "smart" people and not the popular folks, so I fit in there pretty well. I actually made a lot of good friends in my sorority, although at the time, I found a lot of it pretty annoying. I stay in touch with quite a few people, though.

[flamingyouth]

16. I'm an alumna of Zeta Tau Alpha

And I'm still the service chairwoman for the Seattle-area alumnae.

[Booberdawg]

17. Yes a couple, but not anymore

[madfloridian]

18. Yes.

But it was not a secret. Alpha Xi Delta.

[SOteric]

21. Possibly

:7

[JVS]

23. You sly devil!

[JackSwift]

24. Groucho and I don't join clubs

that would have guys like us as members.

[Philostopher]

27. I was an Official Strumpet.

Of the Northern Kentucky University Northerner (campus weekly newspaper) Strumpet corps. You had to have had something other than an editorial letter published in the paper and be able to drink at least one of the guys on the staff under the table.

[name not needed]

30. hmm

i would tell you, but then id have to kill you:nuke:

[jokerman93]

31. If I told you,

then it wouldn't be secret anymore, would it???

[Feanorcurufinwe]

39. Yeah... why don't people get that?

[Capn Sunshine]

33. Task force 354, Nombre de Dios, Panama

it was pretty secret at the time

[KittyWampus]

34. I Was Initiated Into My Pronaos

:)

[MinnFats]

36. In college during the height of the war (Oh, Vietnam. Sorry.) in our ...

....little college town, the mayor announced that the campus was "a hotbed of radicals" because the vast majority of students hated the war and filled the streets to demonstrate our feelings....several of us found this amusing. We'd write letters and editorials to the student paper all the time, but after the mayor did that we started signing them the "Hotbed of Radicals Collective" and leave our names off. Pretty soon a fair number of people, including the mayor, were under the impression that there was actually something called The Hotbed of Radicals Collective conducting underground subversive activities in town....

[ChoralScholar]

37. Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia

Once a Sinfonian, Always a Sinfonian, Long Live Sinfonia!!!

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia - since 1898 - worlds oldest and largest music fraternity

[bbernardini]

44. Same here!

West Chester University. You?

[mikehiggins]

38. Masons and Mensa

Neither of which are actually "secret" societies. Most Masons are more than happy to let people know about their belonging, sometimes pasting Masonic symbols on their cars, or wearing rings with the Square and Compass emblem on it.

Membership in Mensa is secret only because nobody outside of it gives a damn about it.

Oh, and I went to AA meetings years ago, so I guess I'm a member of that one as well. AA isn't actually a secret organization either, just one that is very secretive as to the identity of the members.

I guess I think of "secret" societies as being somehow inimical in nature, like the folks that hang out with the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu.

Or Halliburton.

[Nikia]

40. Kappa Kappa Gamma

Yes, the poor socially awkward anti elitist weirdo decided to go through Rush and before she knew it, she became a Kappa Kappa Gamma. I think that it was really a positive thing. Our campus was strictly anti hazing and our national organization is as well so no horror stories that you always hear about. Initiation is a ceremony where the initiates are given important secret knowledge just like in classical Greek mystery cults. I have benefitted from that knowledge.

[trof]

41. Me & George & George*

Delta Kappa Epsilon
If I had known I wouldn't have pledged, honest.
;-)

[Braden]

42. Delta Upsilon fraternity

Arizona Beta chapter

but we are not a secret society. One of the founding principles of our fraternity was oppeness. www.deltau.org you can learn all of our non-secret secrets for yourself if you want.

[noonwitch]

43. I was in a sorority for a couple of years

It was a way to pay my semester's bar tab up front.