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The Cornell University Greek system dates to the first months of university operation during the autumn of 1868. Cornell's co-founder and first president, Andrew Dickson White was a strong promoter of fraternities as a means of teaching self-governance to young students.
[220] [221] [222] Cornell's Greek Life has an extensive history on the campus with the first fraternity, Zeta Psi, being chartered by the end of the university's first year. [223] Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek organization established for African Americans, was founded at Cornell in 1906.
La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Inc. (ΛΥΛ or LUL) is a Latino and multicultural interest collegiate fraternity.It was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York on February 19, 1982, [1] and has 78 active undergraduate chapters [2] and sixteen graduate alumni professional chapters in universities and cities across the United States.
Beta Sigma Rho (ΒΣΡ) was a social fraternity founded on October 12, 1910, at Cornell University.Most of its active chapters were absorbed into Pi Lambda Phi fraternity in 1972, following a similar course as two other smaller Jewish fraternities that joined that national society.
Latino Greek-letter organizations, in the North American student fraternity and sorority system, refer to general or social organizations oriented to students having a special interest in Latino culture and identity. The first known Latino fraternal organization was Alpha Zeta fraternity, established in 1889 at Cornell University. [1]
The Seal & Serpent Society is a house club located at Cornell University. Founded in 1905, the society is one of the oldest at the university. The Tudor mansion at 305 Thurston Avenue has housed the active chapter since 1927. Seal and Serpent operates as a social club rather than a secret society or final club.
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In North America, fraternities and sororities (Latin: fraternitas and sororitas, 'brotherhood' and 'sisterhood') are social clubs at colleges and universities.They are sometimes collectively referred to as Greek life or Greek-letter organizations, as well as collegiate fraternities or collegiate sororities to differentiate them from traditional not (exclusively) university-based fraternal ...