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I thought the Pike House was the Athlete's dorm back in those days?Those are great. Was hoping to see the yard dec from the Pike House.
At one point it was an athletic dorm, but I don't remember what year PiKA got it. I lived there from like 94 to 96.I thought the Pike House was the Athlete's dorm back in those days?
Im reliably told Pike has been in the same location since 1961, but between you and me, his memory is getting shaky.
The Pike house originally was on the north side of Sorority Row, where the student center is now. In the mid to late '60s (I don't remember the date) the Pikes moved into what originally was the jock dorm, next door to the Kappa Sig house.
Pikes didn't have a great rep at that time...basically thought of as party people, and we did have tons of parties. We had a pretty salty intramural soccer team...lots of former HS and club soccer players in our house from Joplin, Jenks, Union, etc. We also had some football players that were members at the time but they didn't really ever hang out at the house. Frerotte was one of them. Got in fights with the Kappa Sigs from time to time out front, but also had mutual respect for several of those guys. Kappa Sigs and Lamda Chi's had lots of preppy dudes from what I remember. KA's were just kind of there. Sigma Nu wasn't well thought of by the other frats at the time.Question... what were the stereotypes you recall for all the houses when you were there?
Sigma Chi was just non existent? lolPikes didn't have a great rep at that time...basically thought of as party people, and we did have tons of parties. We had a pretty salty intramural soccer team...lots of former HS and club soccer players in our house from Joplin, Jenks, Union, etc. We also had some football players that were members at the time but they didn't really ever hang out at the house. Frerotte was one of them. Got in fights with the Kappa Sigs from time to time out front, but also had mutual respect for several of those guys. Kappa Sigs and Lamda Chi's had lots of preppy dudes from what I remember. KA's were just kind of there. Sigma Nu wasn't well thought of by the other frats at the time.
Then the Lambda Chi's just picked up where the Sigma Nu's left off.Lol I'm quite a while after you guys, but I am a Sigma Chi.
I personally knew very few Pikes since they were all the way down the row. I did end up working on my Capstone Project with one and he was chill. We always seemed to be competing with the Pikes for recruits, girls, and in intramurals so we kind of hated their guts. They were tended to be pretty preppy as did a large number of our guys. Pikes did have a huge number of members though.
The biggest difference between our houses was that we had what I believed to be quite a bit more diversity in terms of personality and acceptance. That did lead to us at one point having a few too many druggies which hurt our reputation at times. I don't think that's the case anymore though. I will with confidence say that no house partied as hard as we did though lol.
We always called the KSIGs the 'tool shed'. They tended to be the ones I partied with if I wasn't with the guys from my house. They were really brash and full of themselves but they were fun, if a bit dimwitted at times.
KA's... just played off of that southern gentlemen shtick and they were a bunch of guys from rural areas.
Lamda Chi's were what I would typically call dweebs. Very nice guys but pretty geeky at times.
Sigma Nu wasn't on campus when I was there... I heard they just got back on a few years ago and are in the Honors House now.
I knew I was forgetting one. Sigma Chi was fine...more preppy dudes like the Kappa Sigs but not as brash.Sigma Chi was just non existent? lol
Sigma Nu was thought of that way between 94-98.Lamda Chi's were what I would typically call dweebs.
Pikes eventually got really big after I was gone...became a totally different house from when I was there. We only had about 35 to 40 active members while I was there, if I remember right...maybe a little more.We always seemed to be competing with the Pikes for recruits, girls, and in intramurals so we kind of hated their guts. They tended to be pretty preppy as did a large number of our guys. Pikes did have a huge number of members though.
Sounds about right.My era:
Pikes: Dudes who drank too much cheap beer and screwed football players GDI girlfriends, while they were cheating on their Theta girlfriends and the football players were off with some random DG.
KA's... just played off of that southern gentlemen shtick and they were a bunch of guys from rural areas.
Only knew one KA during my time at TU. He was from rural OK and struggled greatly in the engineering school.Rural? When I was there they were mostly from KC, St.Louis, Chicago and various large cities in Texas. They tamed down considerably a few years after my departure.
nuke the cowpatties!!