texas omicron

no one knows what their current position with their nationals is aside from rumors, and know one knows quite where to classify them. They tend to get stuck somewhere between the top and upper-mid tier currently.

If that's true, yeah, they're kinda SOL.

I give Omicron props for giving the finger to their nationals. They were kind stuck, and were basically about to have their chapter destroyed, and their nationals wanted money that wasn't owed to them. I respect them for basically fighting and winning that battle. Pretty much every KA I've talked to from other schools feels they did the right thing. The greedy nationals ended up with nothing to show except that they've totally lost site of their goals and lost one of their top chapters.

Is falling fast. It's a shame, but will never be as good as KA was.

KA national office has lost its way and they're shutting some of the best and most traditional chapters. They even discourage the Old South Ball event and if you do hold it you are forbidden from wearing the Confederate grey. The national office is wholesale gutting KA traditions. What a shame. I'm. Surprised more KA chapters don't secede!

IMO it is very evident how radical most of the national fraternities have become. There's only a few holdouts left who would fight tooth and claw for their chapters and brothers in the face of campus pressure or societal pressure. What's wrong wit strippers???! The three named above and I would also add zeta psi to the list too. Their national offices will give the school and media the finger before selling them out.

Sic semper tyrannis.

When most national offices have gotten to the point where they'd pull the rug out from under you faster than the school would. I mean KA's nationals came in and performed their own investigation and tried to pursue harsher sanctions than the school. It's like the were trying to give the school enough info to kill the chapter, and when it didn't suffice they did it themselves and tried to steal assets that didn't belong to them.

Reminds me of what happened to the Sigma Nus in the 90s. Got caught hazing and their hq was the one to give them the death sentence of 7 years. Also F'd the chapter by letting the bank foreclose on their house (now the Kappa Sigma house and land) when it was almost paidoff. Real sad.

The difference is that the fraternities shoulder way more of the risks than the sororities, so the ones, particularly with less reliable nationals and unsupportive alumni end up with a higher turn over rate than the sororities cause they get in trouble more often.

ATO, Phi Delt, Fiji and SAE (late bloomer in early 80's) were the top houses when I was there. KA was considered pretty good as well but they appealed to a different type of guy and completely kept to themselves.

I was referring to Phi Delt and ATO losing their chapters. Really changed the entire greek landscape at Texas with two of the oldest (Phi Delt was the first house on campus) and most prestigious (both filled with super old families) chapters disappearing. In the following decade, Fijis remained strong and SAE got stronger with more disparity forming between these two groups and the rest of the houses at Texas. In recent years, it appears that perhaps Sig Ep has benefitted most from this turn of events as I hear they are becoming more competitive and getting a stronger group. I have seen a similar phenomenon with Kappa Sig in the last couple years as well.

Sigma Chi was well liked and had some really good guys during my time. They also had some random guys as well. I would say they were solid upper/mid tier and competed mostly with Sig Ep...and maybe Pike, Delt and Kappa Sig (which once had been very strong).

Beta was more mid/mid tier and had some good guys but existed on the peripheral. They were somewhat anonymous. Perhaps the location of their house was to blame.