You Might Be A Greek If:

ItOs Greek Week at UB, and students are probably wondering how to tell sorority sisters and their male counterparts from the rest of the campus population. HereOs a checklist of ways to tell if youOve Omade the cut,O compiled by two reporters with firsthand experience of Greek Life.

You know you are in a sorority when:

• You wear seven layers of clothing to go to campus, but a tube top and skirt to go to the bar.


• You weigh 115 pounds ... and the last 15 pounds are makeup.


• $500 for a purse? Acceptable. $3 cover at the Steer? Outrageous.


• You have had a boyfriend in every underground fraternity.


• Boys are not recyclable among sisters.


• OTaking the stairsO is sufficient exercise for you.


• Your major is either communication or health and human sciences.


• The thought of having to go to the bathroom, airport, library, bar, restaurant, gas station or any other public location alone is enough to send you into a catatonic fit.


• You still call your father ODaddy.O


• Drinking wine makes you Oso classy,O even when itOs just Franzia from a box.


• The only time you see the inside of a gym is before spring break and your sororityOs formal.


• You have been on a scavenger hunt. And enjoyed it.


• ItOs the middle of January, but you look like youOve just spent a month in Mexico.


• While reading the description of Oa chicken panini without peppers, red onions, light mayo, one pickle, two tomatoes, hold the mustard, no chipsO you are just fine, but after eating it you feel Onauseous.O


• Sweatpants to class? Perfectly acceptable.


• The people you donOt like see a nicer side of you than your real friends.

You know you are in a fraternity when:

• You have slept in the Undergraduate Library.


• You answer to any of the following: your real name, your pledge name, just your last name, and the name your OboysO gave you.


• On Thursday nights you wear the black button-up shirt, on Saturday nights you wear the blue button-up shirt.


• You can enter a bar and find the drunkest freshman girl in less than 30 seconds.


• Girls are recyclable among brothers.


• You are going to be so loaded someday. You donOt know how. But you will be.


• Life without hair gel is meaningless.


• You get OshreddedO at the gym.


• You still call your mother OMommy.O


• Buying Cristal at the Steer makes you The Man.


• Both your laundry and your homework have been done by a sorority girl.


• You have been puked on.


• The Nike sweatband that you wear around your head is your favorite accessory.


• Your muscles get bigger when youOre drunk ... or so you claim.


• That 30-second keg stand is still hailed as your finest achievement.


• You drive all the way to campus just to sit in the Union and miss class.

Alaina Greenberg and Nora Hasson are both sisters in a UB sorority.