<p>Can anyone comment about the prevalence of sororities in campus life? I read that about 250 women were rushing--that's about 1/3 of students, yet no one seems to mention this?</p>
<p>There are four sororities at Harvard: Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma. Delta Gamma, and the newest , Alpha Phi. Some have physical spaces to host their events, some borrow or rent space. They offer one more social option to the women’s final clubs, and house rooming groups. Since the sororities and women’s final clubs do not offer residential space, housing blocks still offer the most social contact.</p>
<p>Sororities host parties in nearby spaces, themed parties in bars or clubs, formal dances in Boston hotels, and do fund-raising for charities. Theta, for example, raises funds for CASA, Court Appointed Special Advocates, a group which advocates for foster children in the legal system, a nationwide organisation.</p>
<p>Sororities are also invited by men’s groups such as final clubs, frats, and teams to social events. So for the sociable female, they provide many more events than the few university sponsored dances (House winter formals, spring formals, etc.)</p>
<p>The sororities, fraternities and final clubs are not officially recognized by Harvard. Thus they cannot be listed in the Harvard yearbook, or use campus spaces. Oddly, the freshman club, The Hasty Pudding social club (not the humor group) is part of the university, despite the fact that they have a typical selective selection process which depends heavily on wealth, prep school connections or parental notoriety. The Hasty Pudding is often the first step to being punched for final clubs, for both men and women.</p>
<p>Sorority rush begins second semester of freshman year, final club punch during fall of sophomore year.</p>
<p>ka Delta Gamma, and the newest,
Alpha Phi. </p>
<p>Could not edit/remove floating typo phrase at end, sorry.</p>