Comment: Fraternities And Sororities by Darryl M. Wood FRATERNITIES Seven fraternities, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Sigma Nu, Delta Phi Kappa, Sigma Gamma Chi, Beta Theta Pi, Pi Kappa Alpha, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon, are present on Weber State College's campus. Each of these is affiliated nationally, with TKE being the last to gain this recognition in the spring of 1973. Weber's fraternities have competed in various intramural events, completed many service projects, and have sponsored many entertainment functions. Pi Kappa Alpha sponsored a stomp in mid-October of 1973. Other stomps for next year are in the planning stages. Pi Kappa Alpha has also competed in many intramural sports. Tau Kappa Epsilon decided to complete at least one service project for the community each quarter. During Fall Quarter, they planted shrubs supplied by the city of Ogden in the Fourth Street Park. TKE also painted homes for elderly citizens during Fall Quarter as part of a project called 'Target Area Senior Citizen". Plans were made for Winter Quarter but because of the weather, they were not completed. Sigma Alpha Epsilon presented $50.00 to the Psychology Department to be used to purchase psychology books for the library. The fund was raised during a service project at the beginning of Winter Quarter. Sigma Alpha Epsilon participated in intramural sports also. Sigma Nu competed actively in the intramural competitions. They were also active in campus and community projects. Beta Theta Pi has completed many projects for the community. Beta won the skiing intramurals held at Snow Basin Ski Resort. Sigma Gamma Chi participated in many intramural programs, too. They also became very involved with projects both on and off campus. Delta Phi Kappa won the intramural snowshoeing and took first place in the Fraternity A division of the bowling intramurals. This year, the fraternities have been characterized by activity both on and off Weber's campus. In my opinion, they should be congratulated for their fine participation in the intramurals and in the community projects they have sponsored. SORORITIES Five sororities, LaDianaeda, Lambda Delta Sigma, Otyokwa, Tau Theta Nu, and Zeta Chi Omega, are represented on the Weber State College campus. These sororities have decided to start a PanHellenic group. This group is designed to help them become more centralized in their workings and be better able to work together on group projects. The group has not as yet begun functioning. The sororities have competed in and won some of the many intramurals competitions. They have also been entered in many of the contests for the women on the WSC campus Otyokwa has entered many of the Intramural events and ha taken first place in two of them. They won the Women's Intra mural Flag Football title and the first place in the Women's Intramural Skiing competition. Otyokwa took the flag foot ball championship with a record of seven sins and only one loss. Lambda Delta Sigma, another of the five sororities on Weber's campus, has entered many of the intramural event It has also contributed much time and effort to projects both on and off campus. Tau Theta Nu has entered many of the intramural event It has contributed much time and effort to projects both or and off campus. La Dianaeda has entered many of the intramural athletic events and campus contests. Nancy Carr, a LaDianaeda member, was crowned Homecoming Queen. Comment: Fraternities And Sororities by Darryl M. Wood A BRIEF HISTORY OF FRATERNITIES AND SORORITIES To understand the functions and activities of Sororities and Fraternities, it is necessary to know a little of the history of their origin and development. Fraternities, uniquely American, trace their origin to the student clubs in existence during colonial days. The most famous and first to use Greek letters for its name was Phi Beta Kappa. It was organized on December 5, 1776, at William and Mary College in Virginia. Five students organized this secret society and all its rituals Phi Beta Kappa later changed from a social fraternity to an honor society. The oldest social fraternity was established in 1825, at Union College, Schenectady, New York. It was called Kappa Alpha or Kuklos Adelphon. Kappa Alpha, along with Sigma Phi (1827) and Delta Phi (1827), formed the "Union Triad". Fraternities spread to the Midwest and the "Miami Triad" was formed. It consisted of Beta Theta Pi (1839), Phi Delta Theta (1848) and Sigma Chi (1855). After the Civil War, fraternities appeared on the West Coast of the United States and in Canada. As a protest to these secret societies, an antisecret society was formed in 1834 at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Similar organizations were formed at other colleges and in 1847, the AntiSecret Confederation was established. seventeen years later, the Confederation changed its name to Delta Epsilon and thereafter, except for its nonsecret nature, it functioned like any other national fraternity, The first women's fraternities, or sororities, were established at Wesleyan College, Macon, Georgia. They were the Adelphean (1851) later called Alpha Delta Pi and the Philomathean(1852), later Phi Mu. Later came Pi Beta Phi (1867), Kappa Kappa Gamma (1870) and Kappa Alpha Theta (1870). the expansion of the sorority system came at about the same time that women were accepted as students in state supported universities. In many cases, fraternities aided in the organ- Even though the first fraternity preceded the first sorority by seventy-five years, the women recognized the need first for an organization in which Greek letter societies could exchange ideas and take united action on common problems. After three unsuccessful attempts over an eighteen year period, the National PanHellenic Conference was established in 1902. Seven years later, the National Interfraternity Conference was established. In 1910, one year later, a constitution and bylaws were written for the Conference. On Weber's campus, the seven fraternities and five sororities are often criticized as being uppity, clannish or even snobs. This may or may not be true. Because of their history of being secret organizations with secret rituals and restrictive membership rules, many college students have attacked these groups. Fraternities have also been criticized because they are social organizations. Many students think they have only parties and drink beer; this is not true of today's organizations. To survive, many fraternities and sororities have worked long and hard hours on service projects for the campus and the community. The brother-sister relationship of many fraternities and sororities stems back to when the fraternities gladly helped the struggling sororities begin. Fraternities and Sororities are an integral component of most colleges. For all their faults, fraternities and sororities have contributed much to bring colleges and communities together. Weber students should be proud of their Greek Societies and should accept them as a meaningful segment to a unified campus.