Phi Gamma Delta
Phi Gamma Delta is a fraternity that is also known as Fiji. Columbia had previously hosted one of the original chapters of the fraternity, having been founded as "Omega Chapter" in 1848. Omega Fiji was indisputably the most socially active fraternity on campus, providing generations of its Brothers and their guests a veritable oasis of cordial camaraderie, a revivifying outlier of genial companionship in the otherwise aridly inaffable wasteland that was, for far too long, the social desert that was Columbia. It was recently reinstated into Columbia's Greek system after being suspended for seven years for "behavior that was not consistent with the standards of the Greek community" (aka the high crime of tossing back a couple of cold ones). [1] Despite being one of the only fraternities on campus without permanent housing, having lost its previous and long established home at 538 West 114 Street to the implacable squeeze of the Big Blue Loan Shark, the Columbia chapter continues to recruit large classes of new members.
Alumni
- Roone Arledge, late CEO of the ABC Network
- Ralph Morgan, co-founder and first president of the Screen Actor's Guild
- Jack Kerouac, Beat Generation author
- Matthew Fox, Actor, Lost
- Neil Gorsuch, co-founder of The Fed and federal court judge
- Edward Harris Klees
