High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Clemson University opened in 1893 as an all male military college.It would not be until seventy years later in 1959 that the first fraternities and sororities arrived on campus. In the 1970s they became recognized as national fraterntites and sororites. The Greek life has now increased to 39 chapters on campus: fraternities and sororities from the National Panhellenic Council, the North-American Interfraternity Conference and the National Pan-Hellenic Council.