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Some University of Utah students are getting out of the "animal house," and into a unique club that steals members from the time-honored gender-specific Greek system.
College fraternities, girls in sororities, but Brandon Welch cuts all that out and combines the sexes into one gigantic "frasority."
"It started off as a joke my freshman year, and people were, like, 'Hey, you should join a fraternity.' I was, like, 'Sorry, guys, I'm in a frasority.' And it just started off as a joke, but then people were, like, 'Hey, I want to join your frasority.'
"It started off unofficial, just a small group of my friends, 'Hey, let's go to a frasority activity,' just kind of laughing and joking about it."
Welch, president of the frasority at the University of Utah, and his pals were crashing an LDS Rush party. He says this is how they find their recruits.
"It's recruitment meant for the fraternities and sororities, but we show up and say 'this is what we're about,' and we get a ton of recruits joining us."
But the best part is that all these are on the University dime. The frasority is an official club at the University of Utah. That means none of the kids have to pay dues, and the University gives them money for their activities.
"A lot of the fraternities have student fees, they pay to be in it. We don't have any fees to be in the frasority."