It's All Greek to Me: Sororities and Fraternities at Coe

Like many other colleges, Coe does support a Greek life.  Although I am not part of a sorority, I have friends who are.  Coe maintains three sororities and five fraternities.

Sororities: Tri Delta, Alpha Sigma Alpha, and Alpha Omicron Pi

Fraternities: Tau Kappa Epsilon, Lambda Chi Alpha, Sigma Nu, Phi Kappa Tau, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia

Each group has their own wing in Voorhees and Greene, respectively.  Sororities have a formal recruitment process while the fraternities are much more causal and laid back in their recruitment.

The sororities at Coe conduct a formal rush process.  There is a small fee to rush and for one weekend, girls move from sorority party to sorority party meeting the girls and discussing each sorority and their philanthropy.  An interesting aspect of rush is that some girls rush simply to meet people.  A few of my friends rushed simply for the experience and they did meet a lot of great girls.  The parties are a way for the sorority to get to know all the girls who are rushing and decide who is a good fit for their sorority.  Rush is a three day process (usually a Thursday, Friday, Sunday deal) with Thursday being very informal.  The parties on Friday are a bit more formal and it's still a getting to know you and the sorority sort of party.  Finally, on Sunday there are preference parties.  These parties are by invitation and so on Saturday, girls who rushed fill out cards that say what preference parties they would prefer to attend and the sororities fill out cards with what girls they'd like to attend their party.  The preference parties are very formal, like Homecoming dress attire, and are held off campus (transportation is provided).  After the preference parties, each girl that rushed fills out a card saying what sorority they would like to join.  If the sorority they requested also requested them, it's a match.  The final part of the rush process is the running of the stairs.  The new members are called out, given a sorority t-shirt and run down the main Voorhees stairs into the arms of their new sisters.  It's a very loud and exciting ordeal and lots of sisters lose their voices from screaming so loud!

And that's kind of all I know about Coe Greek life; they do a lot for both their philanthropy and Coe.  I thought it would be nice to describe a bit about Greek life so prospective students can get a feel for what it's all about.  If you have any more questions, let me know and I can ask my friends who are a part of Greek life and get your question answered.  Oh and much thanks goes to my friend Briana Fischer who gave me lots of information on the rush experience!