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Synonyms for frat

a social club for male undergraduates

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In a press conference Thursday, the fraternities and sororities that came together under the United Fraternities and Sororities of Panay group announced their plan to hold a blood donation drive on August 4 at the Gaisano City in La Paz district here.
Piazza Center for Fraternity and Sorority Research and Reform, named after a sophomore who died in a 2017 hazing incident, will produce a national scorecard on fraternities and sororities. Researchers will also generate ideas for reforms.
But groups known as "final clubs," informal social clubs a student joins before graduating, as well as some fraternities and sororities have continued to operate off campus.
Meanwhile, students are also advised to refrain from joining and engaging in activities involving fraternities and sororities.
Second, fraternities and sororities originally arose as secret societies because college authorities banned them for competing with churches.
Throughout the years, fraternities and sororities adapted and consolidated in order to ensure survival while remaining a vital component on campus.
Since, sororities strongly discourage smoking in their members, one strategy may be to target the opinion leaders and more popular members of fraternities and sororities to model no smoking at parties (Ling et al., 2014; Phua, 2011).
Buccal swabs were collected from 160 of the 161 student participants, who represented at least eight fraternities and sororities; 80 (49.7%) were male.
(OmegaFi), a provider of financial, fundraising and communication solutions to fraternities and sororities.
Author of the book, "Black Greek 101: The Culture, Customs and Challenges of Black Fraternities and Sororities," Kimbrough has given more than 500 speeches on the issues that affect fraternities and sororities.
Such an outcome would be the only good thing to come out of an ugly incident that has left a stain on the reputations of the UO and its fraternities and sororities.
Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, has filed an amendment to the House budget that would place Texas fraternities and sororities under additional state scrutiny.
As a response to the Neo-Classical Movement, African American students in predominantly white colleges and historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) began to apply for and gain membership in Greek fraternities and sororities. (2) Once denied access to join Eurocentric Greek organizations, the necessity of a parallel Greek organization that mirrored African American social experience came into existence for African Americans.
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