Greek Life at Adrian College is an experience of holding yourself to higher standards while making friendships that will last a lifetime.
Adrian College has five national fraternities; Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Theta Chi, Tau Kappa Epsilon, and Alpha Tau Omega; three national sororities, Alpha Phi, Chi Omega, and Alpha Sigma Alpha; and one local sorority, Delta Nu Kappa. Twenty percent of the student body is Greek, with almost 300 members. Greeks are involved with numerous student organizations and leadership positions, and are committed to keeping their chapter’s Grade Point Averages above Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Council requirements. Live Better. Live Greek.
Greek organizations emphasize scholarship, service and philanthropy, leadership and campus involvement. Students may move into fraternity or sorority housing at the start of the following semester provided pledging began before the seventh week of the previous semester and their grade point average meets chapter and Interfraternity Council or Panhellenic Council requirements.
Did you know?
- Forty-three of 50 of the nation’s largest corporations are led by Greeks.
- Three fourths of Congress is Greek.
- Two-thirds of all Presidential Cabinet members since 1900 have been Greek.
- Of Supreme Court Justices since 1910, 85% have been Greek.
- Since fraternities began in 1825, all but three US Presidents belonged to a fraternity.
- Eighty-five percent of the Fortune 500 chief executives belong to a fraternity.
- Today, 65 fraternities with over 6,000 chapters on more than 800 campuses in the U.S. and Canada, include 400,000 undergraduates and a total living membership of over 4.5 million.
- Similarly, there are 26 sororities with over 2,660 chapters in the U.S. in Canada and a total membership of more than 2.5 million women.
- Well over 7 million dollars and a million service hours are contributed to charities and social service agencies each year by fraternities alone.
- Greek organization members have a higher graduation rate than non-members.
Anti-Hazing Statement
Here at Adrian College we are an educational institution. In being so, we have certain expectations and standards of our students. Adrian College stands firmly against any type of hazing.
No chapter, colony, student or alumnus shall conduct nor condone hazing activities. Hazing activities are defined as: “Any action taken or situation created, intentionally, whether on or off fraternity premises, to produce mental or physical discomfort, embarrassment, harassment, or ridicule. Such activities may include but are not limited to the following: use of alcohol; paddling in any form; creation of excessive fatigue, physical or psychological shocks; quests, treasure hunts, scavenger hunts, road trips, or any other such activities carried on outside or inside the confines of the chapter house; wearing of public apparel which is conspicuous and not normally in good taste; engaging in public stunts and buffoonery; morally degrading or humiliating games and activities; and any other activities which are not consistent with academic achievement, fraternal law, ritual, or policy or the regulations and policies of the educational institution, or applicable state law.”
