Now they know their daughters are being taken care of on this campus. Members of Omega Delta Phi, an unrecognized Latino-based fraternity, said they are meeting with Dealph this week to apply for university recognition. The fraternity has nine Latino students and one Asian student as members. Weinberg senior Michael Wong said he joined when he and his roommate began to hang out with the group. They were set up as a place for Latino students to go, but they're more than willing to accept you.
Diversity is one of the things they strive for.
Across the country the number of Latino chapters has skyrocketed since the late 1980s, and membership applications likely will grow more in the next decade, said David Ortiz, national president of ODPhi. He said the Midwest will see the biggest growth in Latino Greek organizations as students communicate via Internet with Latinos from coast to coast. The majority of college campuses within the next few years will all have some type of Latino fraternity or sorority. Although NU's Latina sorority has temporarily joined Panhel, the university's Latino Greeks hope to bring the national organization on campus to represent them. He said NU administrators do not know how to interact with Greek chapters that do not fall under Panhel, IFC or NPHC and, as a result, slowed the application process to a crawl.