Lisa Helem
NEWSWEEK

Juan de Los Santos says he and his fraternity brothers at New Jersey's Ramapo College "wanted to have fun tonight more than anything else." But their routine of synchronized claps and stomps helped Lambda Sigma Upsilon--"Latinos Siempre Unidos" ("Latinos Always United")--beat out other frats to win $1,000 at the school's Greek step show. Or maybe it was their insouciant T shirts, which read we didn't practice.

As more Latino students enter college--about 1.7 million in 2002--Latino Greeks are becoming a larger presence on campus. Jeffrey Vargas of the National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations estimates that as many as 30,000 Latino students and graduates are Greeks, a fourfold increase since the mid-'90s.

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