Halloween Recipes for your College Halloween Party!

Looking for some ideas for your college party?
Here are some Halloween recipe books to help you cook up some
seriously creepy Halloween food and treats!

Review

From School Library Journal

-An artful arrangement of ingredients aided by imaginative titles transforms ordinary food into disgusting treats such as, "Pus Pockets" (pita stuffed with cheese, baked, slit, and squeezed) and "Worms au Gratin" (spaghetti and noodles). While some children will only browse through the book to exclaim at the yucky fare, those who try the recipes will find that they contain sensible advice, beginning with safety tips, cooking terms, measurements, and clean-up hints. Instructions are clearly written and list needed tools. The advice, "with an adult's help" is given whenever cooking, baking, or the use of a sharp knife is required. Burke's pen-and-ink cartoons are essential for their humorous portrayal of monsters and ugly characters and because arrangement of food is so critical for gruesome effect. Even so, some imagination may be needed to see the werewolf in the Waldorf Salad or Brussels sprouts as gorilla tonsils. The food itself is mostly healthful, with fruits and vegetables featured as prominent ingredients. Food coloring is used in some recipes and stuffed olives (eyeballs) appear more than once. Some titles may be over readers' heads, but the serving suggestions (e.g., crumpled facial tissues with the "Phlegm Brulee) will help them understand. Filled with clever ideas, this is an excellent choice for those who are looking for something creepy but fun.

"Filled with clever ideas, this is an excellent choice for those who are lookin for something creepy but fun."--School Library Journal.

was disappointed with this book.Its a wonderful idea to make a book like this but most of the recipes are not something that my family & i would use.The titles of the recipes are great,gnarled witch fingers,tongues on toast,brains on the half skull,etc.This book just needs some better recipes.

I used this book for an adult business halloween party. they all acted like kids grossing out at each item (yet eating them ALL and asking for more). I only made a few items last year to see their reaction and couldn't believe how they devoured them and started searching my refrigerator for more! this year i'll be adding many more of these recipes to my menu.

If you can get past the names of the dishes (and your imagination doesn't go into overdrive), you will love this book! The instructions are simple, and there are plenty of opportunities to teach kids about good kitchen technique. This book belongs in every parent's collection.

Halloween Parties : How to Throw Spook-Tacular Soirees and Frighteningly Festive Entertainments (Paperback)

From Publishers Weekly
Photo stylist Hellander’s book of Halloween-themed entertainment ideas shares recipes, decorating tips and invitation ideas for six different spooky parties. The Tricks & Treats party is pretty run of the mill, with its jack-o’-lantern goody bags, suggestions for pumpkin carving and recipes for Cupcakes with Candy Surprise Centers and Hot Red Wine with Cloves and Almonds. The rest of the parties—Witches’ Brew; It’s a Mod, Mod World!; Hocus Pocus; Haunted House; and That Old Devil Moon—basically offer variations on the theme, with vaguely original ideas for party favors, place settings and snacks. Many of the suggestions seem flimsy (e.g., covering a room’s walls with wrapping paper to create a festive atmosphere) and don’t specifically apply to Halloween (e.g., party favors like styrofoam balls wrapped in crepe paper with tiny charms and fortunes stored inside; or recipes such as Breadsticks with Prosciutto and Robiola). But first-time hosts who haven’t a clue where to begin might glean something from this enthusiastic book. 96 photos.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Book Description
A boring Halloween party? The horror! Millions of Americans live to be scared silly, and for them October 31 marks the beginning of the holiday season: a reason to dress and act outrageously. This hip, photograph-filled paperback, packed with recipes and crafts, makes entertaining on Allhallows' Eve terrifyingly easy. From a frightful dinner for four to a full-out, monster-mashing Haunted Mansion, Lori Hellander concocts six parties guaranteed to make guests scream in delight. The Hocus Pocus Potion Party highlights eerie elegance, while Tricks and Treats taps into Halloween nostalgia.

Like a skilled carver attacking a pumpkin, Hellander chops up each themed party into manageable chunks: invitations; shopping and scheduling; decor and costumes; food and drink; games for all ages. But aspiring fete-ishists need not have tons of time or an armory of glue guns to get the parties going: there are plenty of quick and simple-to-execute ideas, plus useful tips for impromptu entertaining. AUTHOR BIO: LORI HELLANDER lives in New York City, but her work as a photo stylist takes her to many places on the map. She is a regular contributor to Country Living, Bon Appétit, and Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion, among other national publications, and has made several guest appearances on HGTV's Country Style and the Discovery Channel's Surprise by Design.

BILL MILNE is a photographer and image-maker who has contributed to Gourmet, Wine Spectator, Time, People, and many other publications.

Halloween Recipes and Crafts

When I was a kid...and I'm NOT saying when that was...decorating for Halloween consisted of mainly taping those old cardboard decorations of skeletons, witches, or bats, etc, on your windows, carving a jack-o-lantern, and maybe stuffing a dummy. Today, decorating for Halloween is second only to Christmas and is growing every year. No longer just sprouting up a week before the holiday, today people seem to begin decorating for Halloween as soon as October rolls around. And with the elaborate displays many people now have, it probably takes that long to finish. But as Halloween stores pop up each September selling expensive, Hollywood quality props and decorations, people have lost sight of the fact that you needn't break the bank to have a great Halloween display at your house. "Halloween Recipes & Crafts" presents 160 pages of fantastic ideas for decorating both inside and outside, along with great recipes and other tips for a memorable Halloween. The book opens with a short but interesting history of Halloween and then provides tips on party planning and safety. From there we get into the meat of the book and the fabulous projects you can make at home for little cost.

Outdoor Décor is the first section and provides a number of projects that were new to me. One of the most interesting was the freshly dug graves project where you turn everyday plastic garbage bags and a little bit of dirt or soil, to create the look of a freshly dug grave on for your front lawn. Accent it with a Styrofoam tombstone (which you can also make very inexpensively) some leaves, maybe a fake hand rising out of the dirt, for a truly terrifying display.

Another outdoor project utilizes old tin cans, such as soup or even coffee cans. Painted pumpkin orange, simply punch a series of holes in the can with an awl or screwdriver to make a face. Place a candle inside the can and hang outside for a brilliant Halloween lantern. There's also dangling skeletons that can be made with old gallon milk jugs and a scary Halloween ghost flag that can be made for a few dollars.

Moving inside, there are more great projects. Utilize those, unused Halloween masks by simply stuffing them and hanging them inside...or outside...as recently severed heads. One of my favorite projects is the shrunken heads made out of apples. Simply peel an apple and apply a solution of lemon juice and salt to prevent browning. Carve out the apple in the shape of a face and let dry for a couple of weeks. You can even use marker or paint to further accent these ghastly little decorations. The highlight for me was a miniature graveyard scene made with a simple sheet of Styrofoam, some Spanish moss, twigs, little stones, and smaller pieces of Styrofoam to make tiny tombstones.

The recipes section has all sorts of Halloween themed ideas like deviled egg eye balls or lady fingers made from a half of a hot dog with a red pepper finger nail applied with a bit of cream cheese. Add raisins to ice cubes for drinks or punch to give the appearance of bugs. A great idea for adults is to take the traditional bread bowl spinach dip and cut the bread bowl into a jack-o-lantern face. It would make a great centerpiece for an office party.

If you're hosting a party for your children and their friends there's a great chapter featuring a wide display of games like "Pin the Mouth on the Pumpkin", "Encase the Mummy", "Apple Grab" and more that will keep the kids busy and having fun. The book closes with some tips on costume selection and makeup.

The projects in this book are great looking yet very simple and inexpensive to make. The projects all have a supply list and are described in step-by-step fashion. Chances are you'll find that you have a lot of the items you need already in your home. The book is printed on glossy paper and is lavishly illustrated with dozens of photographs throughout. A real ghoul's treat of fun and great looking projects.

Reviewed by Tim Janson

Halloween Treats

Book Description

Amazon.com
Cocoa Cobweb Cupcakes, Black Cat Cookies, and Stained-Glass Spooks are just a few of the spirited tastes you'll encounter in Donata Maggipinto's delightful Halloween Treats. But it's not just recipes--you and your favorite little goblin will love creating spooky craft projects such as Candy Cauldrons, Leaf Lanterns, and Paper Bag Pumpkins together in anticipation of All Hallows' Eve. Maggipinto includes craft ideas for "Pixies" (children 4-8 years old) as well as older children, and nearly every recipe includes a safe task for younger helpers. (For example, while mom or dad should heat the milk for hot cocoa, kids can roll and stamp out marshmallow ghosts as accompaniment.) A few of the craft ideas will require a trip to the art supply store (such as lampshade paper for the very nifty flashlight lanterns), but Maggipinto leaves plenty of room for the magical combination of imagination and found objects. Her great "fanciful masks" are dime-store masks decorated with autumn leaves, candy wrappers, feathers, or anything else you might have at hand.
Maggipinto believes that Halloween festivities should last for at least a week; you'll find enough project instructions and recipes here for a month of Halloween fun. Grownups will love her Halloween dinner party menu (with Pumpkin Crackle Custard for dessert!) and kids can help by making corn kernel napkin rings and three-tiered pumpkin centerpieces. If you're looking for costume ideas, you won't find them here--the book is focused firmly on kitchen and decoration fun--but the beautifully illustrated Halloween Treats is a wonderful treasure trove of tricks and treats that every family will enjoy working on together. --Rebecca A. Staffel

Denver Post
Ghost Witches Join Party Menu "Don't reserve your Halloween cookie cutters just for cookies. Consider these boo-tiful ideas from 'Halloween Treats', by Donata Maggipinto:

Flatten large marshmallows with a rolling pin, then use mini cutters to make a ghoulish garnish for hot cocoa.

Make 'ghost-wiches' by cutting sandwich bread or lunch meats (or both) with the cookie cutters; a pastry tip to poke eyes and mouth into the bread.

And here's a tip from Good Eating: If you're determined to think sweet, you can also use those cookie cutters for devilish brownies and cakes. Either cut the cakes into scary shapes, or use the cookie cutters as stencils to make designs - with frosting or colored sugar on top of the icing."

Book Description
These days, Halloween is the most popular holiday next to Christmas. At its heart are family and friends having fun together--which is what this book is all about. In this cornucopia of creative Halloween ideas, simple crafts, tasty treats, and ghoulish good times abound. From delicious "one cauldron" dinners such as creamy pumpkin soup to luscious devil's food cake and black cat cookies, here are recipes ideal for entertaining adults and children alike, both in the kitchen and at the table. And then there are the crafts. Kid-friendly projects such as trick-or-treat bags, spooky lanterns, and tissue ghosts, and easy ideas for beautiful centerpieces, place mats, and name cards keep everyone from the tots on up busy and happy. Filled with clever projects and delicious snacks, and illustrated throughout with colorful photographs, Halloween Treats will keep the whole family (and friends of all ages) entertained. Happy Halloween!


Halloween Movies to Watch at your College Halloween Party!

Halloween Movies for your College Halloween Party


There are horror movies that scare you, there are horror movies that make you laugh. But what about those movies that let you do both, the good old fashioned fun horror movie. You know, the ones that demand audience participation. Here are my favorite fun horror movies best watched with a big ole' crowd of folks.

'Halloween'
There are fewer things funner to watch than the end of this movie.

'The Evil Dead (Book Of The Dead Limited Edition)'
My favorite movie of all time. Bruce Campbell I love you.

'Evil Dead II (Special Edition)'
My second favorite of all time. A true crowd pleaser.

'Scream'
I stay away from the sequels, but this movie is good horror fun. Top quality.

'The Dead Hate the Living'
A low budget jewel of a movie. The horror movie references alone are worth the cost of the dvd.

'Bride of Chucky'
I liked none of these movies until this came along. Jennifer Tilly is so good here.

'Popcorn'
An overlooked gem of a movie. Best watched with popcorn and a crowd of folks.

'When a Stranger Calls'
This movie inspired many urban legends and, if you can arrange a phone call during the movie, you are in for laughs.

'Friday the 13th Part 3'
This is my favorite of the series but really I like them all. You can't go wrong.

'The Nightmare on Elm Street Collection'
These are all fun. Save yourself the hassle and get the whole set.

'Phantasm'
I will never understand these movies. But who cares? They are still fun. And this dvd is really good.

'Fright Night'
80s music. 80 clothes. A sexy vampire. Fun for the whole family!

'The Legend of Hell House'
A little scarier than most on the list but still. The atmosphere is so tense you find yourself cracking jokes to ease the tension. That is always good.

'The Return of the Living Dead'
This movie is not scary at all. But with all this camp, who cares???

'Sleepaway Camp Survival Kit (Movies 1-3)'
Terrible movies that are fun to watch. This new set is a treat!

So there, call your rowdy friends, make some popcorn, and enjoy. Just remember, talking and yelling during the movie is mandatory for maximum pleasure.

So you'd like to... laugh on Halloween?

A guide by lochnessa7, connoisseur of darkly twisted humor & drafty, old Victorian mansions that are most likely haunted for Amazon


Ah, autumn. The time of year when all clouds are gray and eerie & the wind stirs the trees & rattles the leaves. It is a time for chills and nights wide-eyed without sleep from fear. It is also a time for laughs. In any celebration of death and all things dark & frightening, the best part is to make fun of them. These great comedies all have a bit of the macabre running through them, be it murder, madness or manic ghouls from the mysterious beyond.

'Clue'
'Young Frankenstein (Special Edition)'
'Beetlejuice'

Based on the delightful tv series, 'The Addams Family' makes a perfect halloween movie for anyone who appreciates the beauty of dark humor. The equallly enjoyable sequel,'Addams Family Values', reunites the first's superb cast (Christina Ricci & Angelica Houston are absolutely perfect).

'Clue'
'Murder by Death'
'And Then There Were None'
'Death Becomes Her'

Tim Burton is the master of the atmospheric & eerie, but he is not without a sense of humor. In 'The Nightmare Before Christmas (Special Edition)', 'Beetlejuice' & 'Sleepy Hollow' he exercises his wonderous imagination creating fantastic worlds of unearthly magic.

Some wicked good witch movies, 'Hocus Pocus' & 'The Witches' might be a bit frightening for younger kids, but both are highly imaginative & entertaining.

'The Rocky Horror Picture Show (25th Anniversary Edition)'
'Arsenic and Old Lace'

'Sleuth'
'Without a Clue'

'The Simpsons - Treehouse of Horror'

'Ghostbusters'
'Ghostbusters 2'

'Gremlins (Special Edition)'

'Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost'
'Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire (Snap Case)'

For macabre musicals you can't do any better than Sondheim's masterpiece 'Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street', equal parts morbid humor and dark drama. The lighter, more up-beat 'Little Shop of Horrors' also gives plenty of laughs, but is still one of the more bloody Broadway musicals produced.

For uproarious comedy, Mel Brooks is a genius, and with 'Young Frankenstein (Special Edition)' 'High Anxiety' and 'Dracula - Dead and Loving It' he adds his own comic flair to three classic horror movies (well, 2 horror movies & the entire Hitchcock genre) with brilliant results.
Keeping witht the vein of monster parodies 'Love at First Bite' is even better than Brooks' Dracula- Dead & Loving It.

And last, the master of terror himself, Vincent Price, joins in the fun as well as the fear in 'The Comedy of Terrors / The Raven'

More a kids' movie than an adults' movie, 'Scary Godmother Halloween Spooktakular', a marvelously animated made-for-tv special is none the less endearing and thoroughly enjoyable for all ages.

Various Goodies on Halloween:

The History of Halloween

'Haunted History of Halloween' is by the History Channel. I found it fascinating to see that Halloween is actually comes from an ancient Celtic holiday. The description of Halloween is enlightening.

'DIAS DE MUERTOS mexican halloween whith history' is about the closely related Mexican holiday of "The Day of the Dead." This is a day in Mexico when the living remember the dead by decorating their graves, putting pictures of them up in their homes, and even making a bread called "dead bread."

'Intimate Portrait: Witches' is a documentary about real-life witches.

Books that Celebrate Halloween

'Halloween (Collector's Edition with CD)' is Jerry Seinfeld's remembrance of his fun time during Halloween. This book is Jerry's "Halloween" bit set in book form, complete with illustrations or Jerry as a child.

The Craft of Halloween

For help with Halloween decorations and crafts, who better to turn to than Martha Stewart and company?

'Halloween : The Best of Martha Stewart Living'

'Halloween Crafts: Eerily Elegant Decor'

Halloween Costumes

Perhaps the most important aspect of Halloween: THE COSTUMES!

'Bonus Pack Dress Up' for a boy.

'D' Little Dev Il' for the little devil in your life.
'Belle Dress Size 7-10' for the fairy girl you know.

Not so creepy, but a great college party movie!



National Lampoon's Animal House (Widescreen Double Secret Probation Edition) (1978)


Plot Outline
At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the Delta House Fraternity, but those roughhousers have other plans for him.

Plot Synopsis
Faber College has one frat house so disreputable it will take anyone. It has a second one full of white, anglo-saxon, rich young men who are so sanctimonious no one can stand them except Dean Wormer. The dean enlists the help of the second frat to get the boys of Delta House off campus. This film gives high-jinks and fooling around a bad name. The dean's plan comes into play just before the homecoming parade to end all parades for all time.

Amazon.com
This is one of those movies that works for all the wrong reasons--disgusting, lowbrow, base humor that we are all far too sophisticated to find amusing. So, just don't tell anyone you still think it's a riot to watch John Belushi as the brutish Bluto slurp Jell-O or terrorize his less-aggressive fellow students. This crude parody of college life in the '60s spawned many imitations, but none could match the fresh-faced talent or bad taste of this huge box office success. (Remember all those toga parties in the '80s?) The first of the National Lampoon movies, this was originally released as National Lampoon's Animal House. Keep an eye out for a very young Kevin Bacon in his first credited screen appearance. --Rochelle O'Gorman

Review:
Often imitated.
"Animal House" raised the bar, and set a standard for all comedies that followed. Many have tried to duplicate the originality of this movie, and all have failed to come close.

A classic for the ages.

Review:
ACCEPTED At Last! A Desire to Better Themselves.

This is a modern-day remake of the old John Belushi movie about college, only without the pranks. Justin was much better on the eyes than fat John. My Justin would have fit right in with this group with the skateboarding antics and splashing in the pool. Kaleena and Chrissy are as beautiful as the California girls and will be exceptional some day, Kaleen with her ballet training in Cincinnati and Chris with her dynamic bubbling personality. Both have blue eyes and natural blonde hair. Look out!

Young people need to feel that they have been accepted. Not all will be by their first choice of college, many will never be accepted due to a technacality. This group of misfits start their own dream school and it ends up being a success and making a difference in the lives of at least 300 students. See the movie "Accepted" it will inspire even the most mundane of educators. I was in a college environment for 22 years, I know.

In the movie, we watch a college on paper evolve into a real school where the students not only have fun, but learn what they need for the future. B.Gaines had suffered through eight or more rejection letters and his parents insisted that all normal people go to college -- any college. With a core of six or seven, all of whom had be rejected, the set up a dummy college with a false web site to pacify his disappointed parents. They found an abandoned psychiatric hospital on the fringes of a real college, complete with a padded room. They had a ball renovating it themselves and a bunch of internet weirdos, all misfits, were accepted. Seventy four showed up for classes but by the end of the year, there were 300 students all having the time of their lives. Do you know what it's like to be rejected? It hurts. When you are judged by the color of skin, it is an adbomination and evolution is not as important now as the persons who populate the earth, and this fantastic school. It was started as a joke, but evolved into an experiment project like the pilot one.

It started out as a play school with their books purchased from Amazon. It was a party school like UT-K, and a nerd educator called the students of this experimental style of college "freaks at the looney bin." Their school was shut down as a sham, a fraud, but Dr. Jack Alexander decided it was a clever idea, as the students and the founders had a desire to better themselves. They had been humiliated by being judged on their looks and not their abilities. Dr. Alex admitted that he had always wanted to play jazz trombone.

One of the main students turned out to have been a real female "escort" not the kind C. Southcott says he will be in Hawaii. I don't think he will even go on that tour. Your sometimes trust the wrong person whose actions strip you of your dignity temporarily. They started a new Pilot program at the fictitious college which evolved into a very popular real school. It's not just about us anymore. No matter how you try to wing it, circumstances always intervene into scams and tortures. They will be found out. Touche. When you reach desperation, you invent possibilities for the future not only for you but for those involved in hoping for the same conclusion. It was an unconsciencable thing to even contemplate, but elation, creation, determination, reinvarnation, identification, retaliation, desperation, amortization all theorectically lead one to make new rules for a new kind of process. A school built on determination to make good for the misfits of this world. Bartably was anything but a misfit; he may have just had average mentality, but he had the spirit of an innovator and achieved the impossible. He was the star witness and wowed the judges.

Review:
Timeless
This movie is a timeless comedy. Anyone from a college freshman laughing at how crazy his/her college life can be to a corporate executive reliving their college conquests can relate to this movie. It is one of the all-time greats!

Review:
Totally awesome!!!
Awesome College Movie. My only regret is that I did not see this movie during my college years. Alas, they have the DVD now!







Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night (Hardcover)

From Publishers Weekly
If America is a melting pot, then Halloween is the stew that simmers in our national cauldron. In this fascinating study, Rogers shows how the holiday is a hodgepodge of ancient European pagan traditions, 19th-century Irish and Scottish celebrations, Western Christian interpretations of All Souls' Day and thoroughly modern American consumer ideals. At its heart, he says, Halloween is a celebration of the inversion of social codes-children have power over adults, marauders can make demands of established homeowners and anyone may assume a temporary disguise. Canadian professor Rogers is a fine cultural historian, who carefully sifts through complex social and religious data to tease out meanings and trajectories. One excellent chapter illuminates Halloween and Hollywood, while a chapter entitled Border Crossings discusses Halloween observance among non-Anglo populations in North America, including Mexico's "Dia de los Muertos." Rogers's is the best study to date of the history and growing significance of Halloween.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Book Description
Boasting a rich, complex history rooted in Celtic and Christian ritual, Halloween has evolved from ethnic celebration to a blend of street festival, fright night, and vast commercial enterprise. In this colorful history, Nicholas Rogers takes a lively, entertaining look at the cultural origins and development of one of the most popular holidays of the year. Drawing on a fascinating array of sources, from classical history to Hollywood films, Rogers traces Halloween as it emerged from the Celtic festival of Samhain (summer's end), picked up elements of the Christian Hallowtide (All Saint's Day and All Soul's Day), arrived in North America as an Irish and Scottish festival, and evolved into an unofficial but large-scale holiday by the early 20th century. He examines the 1970s and '80s phenomena of Halloween sadism (razor blades in apples) and inner-city violence (arson in Detroit), as well as the immense influence of the horror film genre on the reinvention of Halloween as a terror-fest. Throughout his vivid account, Rogers shows how Halloween remains, at its core, a night of inversion, when social norms are turned upside down, and a temporary freedom of expression reigns supreme. He examines how this very license has prompted censure by the religious Right, occasional outrage from law enforcement officials, and appropriation by Left-leaning political groups. Engagingly written and based on extensive research, Halloween is the definitive history of the most bewitching day of the year, illuminating the intricate history and shifting cultural forces behind this enduring trick-or-treat holiday.

Review: A serious cultural history of Halloween
Single-subject histories on the likes of salt, codfish and even the color red have become a fashionable lately, and this book is a fine specimen of the genre. It traces the history of the celebration of October 31 from Samhain, the year cycle rite observed by the pagan Celts in Britain, to the many ways it is marked in North America at the time of the new millennium. His central thesis, supported by myriad examples and illustrations, is that Halloween has always been a liminal time, a boundary between autumn and winter, this world and the other world, life and death. Drawing from the theory of anthropologist Victor Turner, he argues that liminal times are also periods of ritual inversion in which the obverse of cultural values, however they are construed, are temporarily allowed to emerge into public consciousness and celebrated before being relegated once again to the cultural closet. Whether these oppositional symbols are spiritual otherworlds, as they were for the ancient Celts, or consist instead of what is disavowed by the dominant cultural paradigm, Halloween provides a framework during which they can be publicly explored and performed. This central feature of Halloween, more than any individual rite or symbol, constitutes the core of the holiday that has endured for over a thousand years.

Rogers begins by examining the practices of the ancient Celts, for whom Samhain was a year cycle rite that marked the passage from autumn into winter, a time out of time when the boundaries between the world of humans and that of otherworldly creatures - be they ancestors, deities or other kinds of spirits - were thought to be thin, and the "reverse world" was allowed to briefly overlap with the everyday world. Carrying this metaphor forward into history, Rogers shows how Halloween's supernatural connotations continued in medieval and early modern festivities associated with All Saints' and All Souls' Days, from which we get many of the rituals still associated with the holiday today, including jack-o'-lanterns, pranking behavior and petty vandalism. He traces the migration of these customs to the New World with two groups of immigrants: English Catholics and liberal Protestants (the Puritans disdained the observance as too popish), and the Irish.

Rogers really shines in describing the growth of Halloween in New World soil. He addresses the development of trick-or-treating in the 20th century not only as a form of social inversion in which children demand candy from strangers, in a reversal of the usual cautions, but as a rite that prepared children to become consumers of sweets and other paraphernalia associated with the holiday, such as costumes and decorations. But the dangers of the otherworld could not be tamed by conspicuous consumption; they re-emerged in the 1960s and 70s as fear of contaminated treats - the infamous razor blade in the apple. The very symbol of harvest home, the fruit of the Celtic otherworld, the Isle of Apples, was transformed into an instrument of danger - not, this time, from otherworldly beings, but from other human beings. Human beings similarly were the source of other Halloween dangers, such as the arson and vandalism of "Devil's Night" in Detroit and other North American cities. Meantime, Hollywood horror films picked up Halloween's association with the supernatural, darkness, death and decay, often weaving in themes associated with contemporary legends and rumor panics. The resulting mix blurred the lines between reality and the imaginary in a way that was new in the history of Halloween, emphasizing gory hyperrealism over the spiritual or supernatural frights that predominated in earlier centuries. At the same time that parents began to be afraid of allowing children to trick-or-treat on Halloween for fear of candy contamination and crime, Halloween emerged as a party night for adults, when those who had enjoyed costuming and rites of reversal as children wanted to experience them in a new, grown-up context. It reached its apotheosis in street parades of large North American cities such as Toronto, New York and Los Angeles, where it has become an occasion for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered communities to publicly celebrate identities usually relegated to the margins of society by the dominant culture. As in much of Halloween behavior, this is done through play, humor and parody, hallmarks of symbolic inversion at the core of Halloween. Rogers also treats the holiday's globalization: both the spread throughout North America of the analogous Mexican holiday El Día de los Muertos on the heels of Latino immigration, and the global diffusion of the commercialized Halloween to Europe and other markets. He provocatively asks whether the transformation of the holiday into a mass-marketed occasion for conspicuous consumption will eventually trump its subversive qualities, or whether individuals' creativity and sense of play will ultimately reclaim Halloween as a site of contestation.

Regardless of the cultural changes this holiday undergoes, Halloween seems to attract to it the oppositional and the carnivalesque. No wonder, then, that is has become a popular target for the invectives of conservative Christian ministers and their congregations, who label it "Satanic" and call for its suppression. But the suppression of culturally contested symbols never successfully eliminates the ideas behind them. In fact, as Turner and French cultural historian Michel Foucault argue, these oppositional images are fertile ground for cultural renewal, and provide alternative ways of envisioning reality: they are cultural countersites where social mores and pretensions can be mocked, parodied, and lampooned with impunity, and an alternative universe can temporarily be imagined.

Rogers does not address at any length the reclamation of Halloween by Neopagan groups in Europe and North America - a pity, because this trend fits well with his overarching theoretical approach. And he seems ignorant of the considerable work done on the holiday by American folklorists. Still, this excellent book will appeal to a wide range of readers. It reads fluidly and easily, is theoretically well-informed without being jargon-ridden or using theory as a bludgeon, and could easily be adopted for use in large undergraduate courses on cultural history, folkloristics and anthropology.

Review: Oops, wrong kind of book
I can honestly say that I have almost always finished reading a book that I start. This is the exception.

It's my fault, really. I was looking for a book that would discuss the origins and development of Halloween. I had in mind the sort that would discuss Charlie Brown and The Great Pumpkin and other Americana. You know, a nostalgic trip down Memory Lane in rural/suburban America.

Oops.

This is actually an academic treatise where the author wants to discuss social inversion, gender identity, and queer politics. No offense to the author, but most people don't regularly use the term "social inversion", let alone bring it up constantly in conversation. If you are a cultural transgressor looking to be affirmed in your okayness, this is perhaps a good book for you. I was looking to be affirmed in my nostalgia, so I am out of luck.

(Normally I don't review books down because I disagree with the author; however, I feel that this is marketed deceptively. Normal people don't talk like this guy writes, so I can only imagine that he is one of those people that must rework every concept to fit his sociological theories. Or maybe I'm just a jerk - you decide).

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The terms "fraternity" and "sorority" (from the Latin words frater and soror, meaning "brother" and "sister" respectively) may be used to describe any number of social and charitable organizations, for example the Lions Club, Epsilon Sigma Alpha, Rotary International, or the Shriners. In the United States and Canada, however, fraternities and sororities are most commonly known as social organizations for higher education students.

Contents
1 Terminology
2 The purposes and types of fraternities
3 Structure and organization
3.1 Ritual and secrecy
3.2 Fraternity and sorority houses
3.3 Joining a fraternity or sorority
3.3.1 Joining a Black Fraternity or Sorority
3.4 Hazing issues
3.5 Symbols
4 History and development
5 Portrayal of fraternities and sororities in popular culture
6 Categories of fraternities and sororities
7 Interfraternal and professional organizations
8 Fraternities and sororities outside North America
8.1 Australia
8.2 Europe
8.2.1 Austria
8.2.2 Belgium
8.2.3 Estonia
8.2.4 Finland
8.2.5 Germany
8.2.6 Latvia
8.2.7 Lithuania
8.2.8 The Netherlands
8.2.9 Poland
8.2.10 Portugal
8.3 The Philippines
9 References
10 See also
11 External links

Terminology
The term "fraternities", colloquially (and sometimes negatively) shortened to "frats", generally refers to all-male or mixed-sex organizations; the female-only equivalent is called a sorority, a word first used in 1874. Though the word sorority was coined for Gamma Phi Beta, Alpha Delta Pi was actually the first organization to fit the sorority model, as a secret sisterhood founded in 1851 at Wesleyan College. Consequently, there exist some all-female "fraternities" that were named before the newer term was created; examples include Kappa Alpha Theta and Kappa Kappa Gamma, both founded in 1870, and Alpha Phi, founded in 1872. Fraternities and sororities, especially outside North America, are also referred to as student corporations, academic corporations, or simply corporations.

With few exceptions (notably "The Artists' Circle", "Acacia", "Pan Sophic", "FarmHouse", and "Triangle"), the names of North American fraternities and sororities consist of two or three Greek letters. For this reason, fraternities and sororities are known collectively as the Greek System and its members as Greeks. The use of Greek letters started with the first such organization, Phi Beta Kappa, which used Greek letters to hide their secret name.

Outside North America, organizations like college fraternities are rare. However, some other countries with active fraternity-like organizations are the Netherlands, Flanders (Belgium) and Germany (e.g. the German Student Corps). The Philippines is another country with a large fraternity and sorority system; see fraternities and sororities in the Philippines for more detailed information.

The purposes and types of fraternities
There are various types of fraternities: general (sometimes called social), service, professional, and honorary. The most recognizable form of fraternity is the college general, or social fraternity. Most of these fraternities were originally founded on dedication to principles such as community service, sound learning, and leadership qualities, though some have become purely "social". In response to the developing stereotype of excessive alcohol use in fraternity life, some fraternities today are alcohol-free (referred to as "dry").

Many fraternities and sororities are national organizations with chapters at individual schools. National organizations may impose certain requirements on individual chapters to standardize rituals and policies regarding membership, housing, or behavior. These policies are generally codified in a constitution and bylaws which may be amended at national conventions. Members of a national fraternity or sorority may enjoy certain privileges when visiting other chapters of the same national fraternity. Other fraternities and sororities are "local" and do not belong to a national organization. Local fraternities and sororities can establish their own constitution and bylaws, and do not need to contribute financially to a national organization; however, they do not have access to services that a national organization might provide, such as loans for the purchase or improvement of a residential structure.

Structure and organization

Ritual and secrecy
Most fraternities maintain a ritual system that is highly symbolic in nature and kept a closely guarded secret. Some signs point to common ancestry in both sorority and fraternity ritual, but most are likely derived from Masonic ritual. Other "fraternity secrets" may include passwords, songs, handshakes, journals and initiation rites. Meetings of the active members are generally secret and not to be discussed without the formal approval of the chapter as a whole. Interestingly, there are two national fraternities which were founded as "non-secret" societies: Alpha Kappa Lambda, founded in 1914, and Delta Upsilon, founded in 1834.

The Greek letters comprising the "name" of a given fraternity or sorority can have a "secret meaning," known only to initiated members of that fraternity or sorority. In the case of fraternities and sororities that have disaffiliated from a national organization, the Greek letters chosen for the name of the organization are often a derivation of the previous name (for example, Phi Tau is the former Tau chapter of Phi Sigma Kappa) and thus the name bears no special secret meaning.

Fraternity and sorority houses
See main article: Fraternity and sorority houses
Unique among most campus organizations, members of social fraternities and sororities often live together in a large house or apartment complex. This serves two purposes. First, it emphasizes the bonds the members share as "brothers" or "sisters". Second, the house serves as a central location for the events and administration of the fraternity or sorority. Because of this residential situation, the individual organizations themselves at their respective schools are known as "houses". Professional, academic or honorary societies rarely maintain a permanent housing location, and some may be barred from doing so by their national organization. Chi Psi Fraternity was the first fraternity to have a house, or Lodge as it is referred to by their brothers, located in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

A fraternity or sorority house can usually be identified by large Greek letters on the front of the house, advertising the name of the group. Depending on the size of the house, there may be anywhere from three to forty bedrooms or more. Larger houses generally have a large meeting room or dining room, commercial kitchen with chef, and study room. There is usually a lounge of some sort, access to which is often restricted to fully initiated members. Fraternities and sororities will also often maintain a chapter room, to which only initiates may ever be admitted and whose existence may be kept secret. The walls of the house may be decorated with pictures of past chapter events, awards and trophies, decorative or historic paddles, or composite photos of members from past years.

At many large universities, it is traditional for Greek organizations to enjoy the use of large, Victorian style mansions on campus. In more modern times, some university administrations have sought to seize or buy out these houses and convert them into academic use or demolish them and convert them into additional parking. This ends the use of the house for social purposes, and is often justified as a measure to curb drinking on campus.

For reasons of cost, liability and stability, housing is usually overseen by an alumni corporation or the national organization of the fraternity or sorority. As a result, some houses prohibit members of the opposite sex from going "upstairs" or into the individual bedrooms. However, many of these houses provide guest bedrooms in case visitors are in town. Other houses may impose a curfew or "open door" policy. Furthermore, some national organizations restrict or prohibit alcohol in the house at any time.

Joining a fraternity or sorority
The process of joining a fraternity or sorority is commonly referred to as "pledging" or "rushing." The term "rush" refers to the historical practice where students would hurry to join fraternities at the beginning of the school year in large part to find housing.

Recruitment is done formally or informally. The traditional "formal recruitment" often consists of a period known as "Rush" or "Rush Week". Fraternities and sororities invite fellow students (often referred to as "rushees" or "potential new members") to attend events at the house (or on-campus) and meet the current members of the organization. These formal rush weeks may impose limits on contact between interested students and active members to ensure fairness, such as time requirements to visit each house. "Informal recruitment" as the name suggests, is much less structured. New members are introduced to the fraternity's members and activities through friends and everyday behavior. Many campuses may have formal recruitment periods and also allow informal recruitment after the formal period ends. "Deferred recruitment" refers to systems where students must have at least one semester's experience on campus before joining.

Depending on the requirements of the school, prospective members may need to meet certain academic requirements, such as a minimum grade point average, or a minimum number of completed credits, in order to rush. At some schools, Greek organizations may be barred from recruiting new members for a year if the organization's cumuluative grade point average is too low. At the end of this period, the house invites the visitors of their choice to "pledge" the fraternity or sorority. If the invitation, or "bid", is accepted, the student will be admitted to the house as a pledge, a time during which they will enjoy fewer privileges in the house until they are initiated as full members. A student may pledge only one fraternity or sorority at a time, and most often agree to never pledge a second house if they have already been initiated into another one, though this does not preclude such events from happening. In general, this restriction only applies to social fraternities and sororities, and does not bar a member from being a member or later joining professional, service, or honorary fraternities or sororities.

Pledge requirements for each house vary, and some houses have eliminated pledgeship entirely. However, common requirements usually include wearing a pledge or new member pin, learning about the history and structure of the fraternity or sorority, performing public service, or maintaining a deferential attitude toward current members. Although it has become rarer, some houses still practice something like "hell week", when pledges are submitted to compounded endurances, which may still include paddling. Upon completion of the pledgeship and all its requirements, the active members will invite the pledges to be initiated and become full members. Newly initiated members are expected to live up the standards of their chapter. Initiation includes secret ceremonies and sacred rituals that the new members are now permitted to learn.

The pledgeship serves as a probationary period in the fraternity or sorority membership process where both the house and the pledge make sure that they have made the right choice. Almost always, after a pledge has been initiated they have a membership in the organization for life. Those pledges who demonstrate their commitment to the organization and its members are initiated, while those who demonstrate little to no effort and/or cause divisions and conflict are dismissed. Some houses will invite anyone who completes the program to become active members, either as a matter of policy, or in order to maintain a stable level of membership.

Pledge names are a tradition in American college fraternities whereby pledges are given a nickname to be referred to during their pledging period. The names are most often selected by the brotherhood just prior to the new member's pledge period. The names often reflect a trait or interest that the pledge has, often resulting in a derogatory reference, but not always. For example a pledge who plays baseball may be named “Slugger”, while another pledge with a shaved head may be referred to as “Mr. Clean”. The degree to which a pledge is associated to his name throughout his orientation period varies from chapter to chapter. Some houses will insist that a prospective member always be referred to by his pledge name; others may treat it only as a nickname which in some cases may fade from the consciousness of the brothers, leaving the pledge most often being called by his real name for the duration of pledging.

Pledge names can also be a source of tradition within the house especially within a particular line of big-little brothers or pledge fathers-pledge sons; meaning that the selection of pledge names reflects a theme or logical progression to reflect an already established tradition. A family line's name could be anything, for example all members dating back several years were named after characters in the movie Animal House.

Starting in the mid to late 1990s, the terms "Rush" and "Pledge" were generally replaced with "Recruitment" and "New Member" respectively. Change is slow in the Greek world, and the use of older terms is still fairly common among houses. Some schools and National Offices use the newer terms.

Joining a Black Fraternity or Sorority
When aspiring to join one of the 9 traditionally black greek letter fraternities/sororities, however, one's status as an aspirant is kept a secret throughout the entire pledging process. It is only when the pledge has been initiated as a full-fledged member of the organization that his/her affiliation with the organization is revealed. If the organization finds out that a pledge's identity as an aspirant has been revealed to anyone other than the members and other pledges of the organization itself, the individual may be denied membership at that chapter at that time.

The new members of black fraternities/sororities are usually revealed during a "probate," a coming-out show in which they quickly recite information about their organization, greet the other black fraternities and sororities (respectfully greeting the organizations of the opposite sex and poking fun at the ones of the same sex), and/or perform a small step show, all the time wearing masks. At the end of the probate, the new members remove their masks and reveal themselves as the newest members of the fraternity/sorority.

Hazing issues
Hazing is the ritualistic harassment, abuse, or persecution of prospective members of a group as a means of initiation. In such practices, pledges are required to complete often meaningless, difficult, or (physically and/or psychologically) humiliating tasks. Many activities which evolved into modern hazing originated as legitimate team-building techniques; some are still used today in the US military. In their essence, they are meant to make the individual fail as an individual, teaching them to become a valuable asset to the team and be loyal to its success. This philosophy of team development continued to be used in fraternal organizations as each subsequent war refreshed the pool of ex-military students.

Because of the association of fraternities with hazing, schools such as Bates College started banning fraternities as early as the mid-1800s. One fraternity, Sigma Nu, was founded in opposition to the hazing taking place at Virginia Military Institute after the Civil War. Hazing became widespread after World War I. Soldiers returning from the war re-entered colleges, and brought with them the discipline and techniques they learned in boot camp. From the 1960s through the 1980s, however, most organizations (especially those governed by alumni at the national level) implemented clear no-hazing policies. Hazing is also against many colleges' Greek Codes and illegal in most U.S. states.[1][2] The North-American Interfraternity Conference (formerly National Interfraternity Conference) also requires anti-hazing education for members, as do most universities. Since at least the 1990s, any hazing conducted at a local chapter was done without the consent of a national organization and outside the guidelines for their initiation rituals. If discovered, hazing usually results in the revocation of the local chapter's charter and probably expulsion of members from the national organization.

Symbols
Fraternities and sororities often have a number of symbols by which they are identified, such as colors and flowers. An Open Motto is a public motto that is used to express the unique ideals and/or standards of a fraternity or sorority.

History and development
The Phi Beta Kappa Society, founded on December 5, 1776 at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, is generally recognized to be the first Greek-letter student secret society in North America. By legend, it was founded by individuals rejected for membership from an older student society known as the Flat Hat Club, which counted Thomas Jefferson among its alumni. The Flat Hat Club, or FHC for short, was founded on November 11, 1750, by six students at the College of William and Mary. FHC was the precursor to Phi Beta Kappa and thus has the distinction of being the first in line of the thousands of Greek-letter fraternities and sororities found on college campuses today.

The Phi Beta Kappa Society was formed as a forum to discuss topics not covered in the regimented classical education of universities of the era—lending the name literary fraternity to its type. In fact, that education was responsible for the name—most students were well-versed in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew; Phi, Beta, and Kappa were the initials of an esoteric Greek motto. In addition to its secrecy and selection of a Greek name, it also introduced a code of high ideals, secret rituals and handclasps, membership badges, and oaths that characterized later Greek letter societies.

The first social fraternity was the Chi Phi Fraternity, founded at Princeton University in 1824; however, this original group went inactive the following year and the modern organization of that name did not reform until the 1850s. The first general fraternity therefore is considered to be the Kappa Alpha Society, established at Union College in Schenectady, New York on November 26, 1825. By this time, the literary fraternities had become stodgy. Kappa Alpha's founders adopted many of Phi Beta Kappa's practices, but formed their organization around fellowship, making the development of friendship their primary purpose. The Sigma Phi Society formed in March 1827, followed by Delta Phi in November. These three constitute the Union Triad.

Sigma Phi became the first "national" fraternity when it opened a satellite chapter at Hamilton College in 1831. In 1831, Hamilton student Samuel Eells chose select members from the two established literary societies on campus, the Phoenix and the Philopeuthian, and formed Alpha Delta Phi in 1832. Chapters soon opened on more campuses, spawning more rivals. Beta Theta Pi was founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in August, 1839, in response to the chartering of the westmost chapter of Alpha Delta Phi. Unlike its predecessors, however, it made expansion one of its key principles. Phi Delta Theta (1848) and Sigma Chi (1855), also founded at Miami University, emulated Beta Theta Pi's focus on establishing new chapters. These three constitute the Miami Triad. Zeta Psi, founded in 1847 at New York University, similarly pursued expansion. It was the first bicoastal fraternity with its chapter at the University of California, Berkeley in 1870. It also became the first fraternity organized in Canada, with the chartering of its University of Toronto chapter in 1879. Although growth was stunted by the American Civil War, the system underwent phenomenal growth in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. All societies founded after the Civil War follow the Miami Triad structure.

Alpha Phi Alpha is generally recognized as the first intercollegiate Greek letter fraternity established for men of African descent when it opened a chapter in 1906 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Phi Iota Alpha is generally recognized as the first intercollegiate Greek letter fraternity established for men of Latino descent when it was established in 1931 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

Women's organizations also formed contemporaneously: the Adelphian Society was established in 1851 at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia making it the first secret society for collegiate women. The Philomathean Society (not associated with the Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania) was also founded at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia in 1852, and I.C. Sorosis was founded in 1867 at Monmouth College, in Monmouth, Illinois. However, they did not take their Greek names (Alpha Delta Pi, Phi Mu and Pi Beta Phi, respectively) until much later, so Kappa Alpha Theta (January 1870) and Kappa Kappa Gamma (October 1870) are the first women's Greek letter societies. The term "sorority" was not yet in use, so the earliest houses were founded as "women's fraternities" or "fraternities for women." The first national to adopt the word "sorority" was Gamma Phi Beta, established in 1874 at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. Alpha Kappa Alpha formed America's first Greek-letter sorority for Black college women in 1908 at Howard University in Washington, D.C.

Fraternities have long been associated with the American educational system and many of their members have gone on to be successful in the various realms of American society. Notably, Delta Kappa Epsilon, founded at Yale University in 1844 counts six members who went on to become President of the United States as well as numerous other prominent political and business figures amongst its members.

In the United States, high school fraternities and sororities were initially popular as well, but were mostly banned during the early decades of the 20th century and are very rare today. Long Beach, California is one city where most high schools stil have at least one fraternity or sorority. In their day, they were not only modeled after college counterparts, but also their chapters were counted with collegiate chapters in the rolls of their national organizations.

Portrayal of fraternities and sororities in popular culture
See also: Fictional fraternities and sororities

Fraternities and sororities have been portrayed both positively and negatively in popular culture. Often their widespread use in comedy as antagonists has propogated negative stereotypes. The most famous portrayal of a fraternity in a comedy is National Lampoon's Animal House, starring John Belushi and co-written by Chris Miller, an Alpha Delta alumnus from Dartmouth College and Harold Ramis, a Zeta Beta Tau alumnus from the Washington University in St. Louis chapter. Though the Delta fraternity protagonists were meant to be portrayed positively in the film, it is often used by those skeptical of fraternities to describe the dangers of the binge drinking culture seen in fraternities.

The movie series Revenge of the Nerds also took a comical look at fraternities when nerdish students formed their own fraternity (Lambda Lambda Lambda) after being rejected (and ridiculed) by other college fraternities (notably Alpha Beta).

In the movie Drumline, there was a scene depicting a pledge initiation ceremony into an honorary band fraternity, Kappa Kappa Psi, however the ceremony depicted is not legitimate. Phi Mu Alpha and Sigma Alpha Iota also supposedly make appearances in the film.

More recently, the movie Old School portrays a different kind of fraternity. It stars Luke Wilson, Vince Vaughn, and Will Ferrell as three friends in their thirties trying to relive their college years. To do this, they move into an off-campus fraternity house and start recruiting members, ranging from average college students to an 80 year old man named Blue. The movie parodies college fraternity life by focusing on hazing, drinking, partying (including a Snoop Dogg concert at the house), and girls.

The realm of reality television also aimed to reveal the workings of Greek life to the masses in the two MTV shows, Fraternity Life and Sorority Life. Both short-lived, the two shows included negative and positive portrayals of fraternities and sororities; each series drew mixed reactions from the audience, and each only lasted two seasons before being cancelled. Among national and local Greek organizations, there was debate regarding how chapters should answer casting calls to appear on the programs.

Due to their predominantly single-sex memberships, Greek organizations (particularly fraternities) and their members are sometimes portrayed in comedies as being homosexual or homoerotic in nature. Ironically, homosexuals in fraternities and sororities have traditionally experienced discrimination due to their orientation. [1]

Categories of fraternities and sororities
Fraternities and sororities may be categorized in numerous ways, and any organization may fall into multiple categories. These types of divisions include the following:

Purpose: general (social), professional, honor, or service
Size: local or "national" organization; ranges of size and geographic distribution among the "nationals"
Religious: affiliated with one religion
Gender: male-only, female-only, or coeducational
Cultural: houses with a special focus on one culture or ethnicity
Multicultural: houses with a special focus on multiple cultures or ethnicities
Era: the epoch in which the organization was founded
For lists of major organizations, see

Social fraternities and sororities
Cultural interest fraternities and sororities
Service fraternities and sororities
Honor societies
Professional fraternities
Fraternal and service organizations

Interfraternal and professional organizations
North-American Interfraternity Conference (NIC) - association of 64 men's social fraternities; local chapters usually known as Interfraternity Councils
National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) - association of 26 international social women's fraternities and sororities; local chapters usually known as Panhellenic Councils
National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) - association of 9 historically African-American fraternities and sororities; local chapters usually known as Pan-Hellenic Councils
National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations NAFLO - association of 24 Latino Greek Letter Organizations
Association of Fraternity Advisors
College Fraternity Editors Association
Fraternity Executives Association
Professional Fraternity Association
Association of College Honor Societies
National Multicultural Greek Council (NMGC) - council of 12 multicultural Greek letter organizations
Multicultural Greek Council (MGC) - local associations of Latino, Latina, and Asian-Interest fraternities and sororities
Unified Greek Council (UGC) - local associations of Latino, Latina, and Asian-Interest fraternities and sororities

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