Fraternity & Sorority Life

While each of our chapters are different, our fraternity and sorority community is bonded by the four pillars of the Greek Life.

At FSC, our fraternity and sorority members are scholars, leaders, community servants, and live their lives with purpose and integrity.

Academic Excellence

A primary purpose of the fraternity and sorority community is to encourage and develop high scholastic achievement among its members.

Brotherhood / Sisterhood

As a member of the Greek community, you will have the opportunity to meet students of various backgrounds with both similar and different interests. Within each chapter, there is a close bond of friendship and brotherhood that only the fraternity atmosphere can foster.

The Greek Village at Florida Southern College fosters friendship for all fraternity and sorority members. The partnership between FSC and national organizations to provide Greek housing on campus is a rich tradition and provides engagement for fraternity and sorority members in a supportive campus community.

Leadership

In the fraternity and sorority, you will be in “charge" of an event or a duty. Everyone in the fraternity and sorority is a leader, whether you’re an officer, on a committee, or just a participant.

Mission Statement
As a Greek community, we strive to be unified leaders on campus and in our community, with positive attitudes that will be influential to all students on campus. We hold ourselves to higher standards by becoming more rounded socially and achieving academic success to prepare ourselves to be one step ahead in the future.

Service

The Greek community provides services to more than just members of fraternities. One of the many advantages of being a part of the Greek community is the time spent helping others in need. At Florida Southern, fraternities and sororities work side-by-side to help local or national charitable organizations.

Alumni/ae

Greek members who are college graduates.

Bid

An invitation given to join a fraternity or sorority. No bid (oral or written) may be extended during formal recruitment except through the Panhellenic or Interfraternity Council.

Rho Gamma

A woman who is available and willing to answer questions about recruitment. As a representative of Panhellenic Council this woman has completely disaffiliated herself from her sorority during the recruitment period.

Initiation

A ritual ceremony through which new members become full members of a Greek organization.

Legacy

A potential new member who is the sibling, child or grandchild of an active member or an alumni (ae) member of a Greek organization.

NIC

National Interfraternity Conference, a confederation of 64 men’s fraternities.

NPC

National Panhellenic Conference, a conference body composed of 26 women’s fraternities.

New Member

A student who has accepted the bid or invitation for membership of a Greek organization, but has not yet been initiated.

Open Bid

A formal invitation to pledge a fraternity or sorority.

Potential New Member:

An individual participating in the recruitment process.

Recruitment

A method in which fraternities and sororities supplement their membership.

Florida Southern College prohibits hazing.
Students participating in recruitment through the Center for Student Involvement will be required to sign a document acknowledging an understanding of the terms outlined here.

Violations by individuals or student groups constitute grounds for disciplinary action. The policy on hazing applies to all campus organizations.

It is a violation for students, faculty, staff, or alumnae to engage in any activity that may be construed as hazing on or off campus. Hazing is any action taken or situation created that produces mental, emotional, or physical discomfort, embarrassment, harassment or ridicule.

Such activities and situations include, but are not limited to, paddling in any form, creation of excessive fatigue, physical and psychological shocks, treasure hunts, scavenger hunts, road trips, wearing apparel that is conspicuous and not normally in good taste, engaging in public stunts, morally degrading or humiliating games and activities that call undue attention to a difference in status between initiated and non-initiated members (running errands, carrying food or trays, etc.), and late work sessions which interfere with scholastic activities, regulations, and policies of Florida Southern College.

Florida Law
1006.63 Hazing prohibited.—
(1) As used in this section, “hazing” means any action or situation that recklessly or intentionally endangers the mental or physical health or safety of a student for purposes including, but not limited to, initiation or admission into or affiliation with any organization operating under the sanction of a postsecondary institution. “Hazing” includes, but is not limited to, pressuring or coercing the student into violating state or federal law, any brutality of a physical nature, such as whipping, beating, branding, exposure to the elements, forced consumption of any food, liquor, drug, or other substance, or other forced physical activity that could adversely affect the physical health or safety of the student, and also includes any activity that would subject the student to extreme mental stress, such as sleep deprivation, forced exclusion from social contact, forced conduct that could result in extreme embarrassment, or other forced activity that could adversely affect the mental health or dignity of the student. Hazing does not include customary athletic events or other similar contests or competitions or any activity or conduct that furthers a legal and legitimate objective.

Read More about florida anti-hazing law on the florida senate website