texas omicron

What about the lambda chi's? Didn't they used to have a house right on 24th that later was purchased by a tutoring company?

Why/how did the phi delts get kicked from campus? I had heard that by the 90s the chapter was pretty much dead and the final straw was their nationals pushing dry housing across the nation. Why would the chapter have fallen on hard times by the 90s?

that's cause they lost their charter around 86 and then recolnized in the ninties

extremely arguable, they've declined a lot, and Delt and Sigma Chi may well have passed them already, and Pike and ATO will probably pass them on their way down too.

along with Alpha Delta Phi, and Psi U should get serious consideration. DKE the better choice because of strong Southern tradition. For the gold standard on Southern Greekdom look no further than U Alabama. DKE and SAE have reigned there since anyone living can remember. U Virginia, UNC DKE is the pinnacle. Ole Miss DKE and LSU DKE are legendary. Tulane DKE were crazy ragers before the school banned them.

DKE's good but LSU DKE gets kicked off every couple years and are mostly notorious for being crazy, I'm pretty sure Ole Miss doesn't have DKE on campus currently, but the rest are pretty true, Alabama DKE is probably on of the very best Greek chapters in the country (along with like half the chapter on their campus TBH) but they're top, and their Ivy League Chapters like Yale produced 5 US Presidents. DKE is easily one of the most powerful national fraternities despite its relatively small size.

If you haven't seen the documentary clip on LSU's DKE chapter (youtube it)from the 1980s its a real classic. Young pups these days can't rage like that anymore.Those were the days!

No joke that video is crazy. I knew they were kind of legendary for being wild, but damn. Mostly meant that they are currently pretty small and behind quite a few chapters (although still respected) because their antics get them thrown off campus frequently.

They had a chapter at UT as late as 2007 and it was small and based in the criteria eveyone here uses, completely inconsequential. Ok Maybe they are big wheels at 'Bama but how does that help them here? If they haven't been able to keep a house open up til now, I doubt The Omicrons would want to tyr that. If its all about doing whatver they please without interfererence from a National staying local makes more sense. as far as anyone here seems to think, a National affiliation is more of a hindrance then a help.

A tough choice that omicron faces. Either bend over and go back to KA Nationals--not likely seeing how acrimonious the 2sides have become--or remain independent or affiliate with another national. Going independent is never good at a large greek school like UT. You pretty much have to affiliate (see former top tier sigma nu at Vanderbilt converted to Nu Society, now Vandy's kappa sigs, or former top tier Duke SAE going independent then affiliating with alpha delta phi. they both are doing fine).

The UT DKEs have been stumbling and irrelevant in the late 90s and 2000s, but they were pretty reputable before that time as a few other posters have mentioned and DKE is certainly well known in the South. Besides with time things can change. Texas sigep were irrelevant and started in 1930, its only beginning in the late 90s they've finally clawed themselves into big 4 with the misfortunes that befell other chapters like Ato, phi Delt, sigma nu, and KA. If KA were to reaffiliate with a hands off national they'll be back up there were they should be.

Is hardcore and definitely had Southern credentials. Bama DKE was the first chapter of a national fraternity in the deep South. Their LSU chapter (then Cenetary college) and Vanderbilt chapter used to be part of Kuklos Aldephon (Old Southern KA) when the fraternity went under they joined deke. Kuklos adelphon is the original Southern KA. Kappa alpha order founder renamed his frat from phi kappa chi to "kappa alpha" in an attempt to ride the reputation of the old kappa alpha after the phi kappa psi chapter at Washington and lee confronted founder ward about the imitation of their name. It's all in the history and you can read about it too in the varlet.

The old Southern KA never was nearly as successful as Kappa Alpha Order, in fact Kappa Alpha Society was way more successful since at least they didn't go under 20 years after forming. KA Order may have taken their name (sort of since KA Society predated both of them), but I consider them a far more successful fraternity.

Are a few big fraternities not on that list.