/lit/ - Literature

By the way, the fraternities I've been discussing are in no way related to what the OP is talking about. The question just came up and since I know something about it I figured I'd contribute.

Fraternities like OP's are academic honor societies and they exist for various academic areas like theatre, engineering, and apparently literature. Fraternities like SAE are known as "social" fraternities. You can tell a fraternity is one of the "cool" social ones if its affiliated with an organization called the North American Inter-Fraternity Conference (IFC).

Another note about fraternities: these are great ways to get involved with politics. As has been mentioned, the Bush family were DKEs at Yale. DKE is actually the oldest fraternity at Alabama. Alabama's chapter is the second DKE chapter, it was founded when some rich bastards from Yale were visiting their ante-bellum buddies in the 1850s. DKEs have a lot of power in Alabama politics. DKE almost never gets in any trouble for any hazing because a lot of their alumni are in the University administration and the State government. Pic related is DKE House. It is located directly across from the Crimson Tide football stadium. Seem like a sweet deal? It is. DKE is the only fraternity on campus that actually owns the land its house is built on, so when the University decided to expand the stadium they had to ask the DKEs permission and DKE got to choose the site of its new house.

Houses are refurbished and expanded about every decade. Fraternities are growing significantly here because of New Money coming in from out of state and a general campus population increase.