WHAT IS A COMMUNITY?

A community is a network of people connected in some way by location, similar interests, a common bond, etc...

THE GREEK COMMUNITY

I chose to document the Greek community at RPI. This community is composed of over thirty Greek affiliated houses. This community has existed at RPI for 143 years. I chose to work with this community because I am a part of it and it is a community that affects us here at RPI because many students join Greek life. On their own each Greek house contains its own community but by coming together the Greek community has a very large presence at RPI. To begin documenting I first looked at the individual houses where many of the members live. The image above is a diagrammatic mapping of the locations of these houses in Troy. There are scattered around campus, downtown and up Pawling Ave. The houses represent a physical separation of the fraternities. Since one of the goals of this project was to unite the community I first started looking at the differences between the houses and then the common goals and ideas that they all share.