ABC Family premiered its new show “Greek” Monday night, and many members of the greek community at Iowa State feel the show represents greek life in a bad light.

Richard Reinhardt, senior in community and regional planning and member of Beta Sigma Psi, said the show is stereotypical.

“I don’t like the image it portrays of the greek community. It portrays what a stereotypical greek house is,” he said.

Reinhardt said “Greek” represents a fraternity house that is always partying and hazing, which is untrue of most fraternity houses.

Greek is scheduled for 10 episodes on ABC Family. The show is set at fictitious Cyprus-Rhodes University. One of the two main characters is an incoming freshman who decides to join a fraternity. His older sister is the other main character, who is already established in her sorority. The three greek houses the show focuses on, Kappa Tau Gamma, Omega Chi and Zeta Beta, are all fake chapters.

“I feel it misrepresents the greek system – they’re getting carried away,” said Megan Cummings, senior in elementary education and member of Phi Beta Chi.

“It excessively shows the primary objective of fraternity guys to be beer and girls, which is not the case at Iowa State,” said Michael Cooley, senior in agriculture education and member of FarmHouse.

Adam Theis, junior in agricultural business and member of Alpha Gamma Rho, said he was worried about how the Ames community’s perception will be affected.

“I’m worried that the Ames community will misinterpret what greek life is all about,” he said.

Theis said the greek life portrayed on the show might be true on other campuses, but it’s nothing like that at Iowa State.

“Iowa State is well known for its greek community, but what they’re showing is not even a minor part of it here,” Theis said.

Cooley would like to find out where the show’s story ideas come from.

“If they used real greek stories and greek people in their show, then it would have the potential to be a good promoter of greek life,” Cooley said.

Reinhardt said he imagines it will be a popular show for some, but he won’t be watching.

“I would like to see them take it off the air,” Reinhardt said.

Theis said he thinks the show will have a lot of momentum, but will fade out in the long run when they run out of story ideas.

“It will be a popular show because that sort of stuff sells,” Cooley said. “I’m curious to see a full episode, it will give me a better idea of what the show is about.”

Cummings said parents might see the show and not want their children to join fraternities or sororities in college.

Reinhardt said all greek houses do a lot of work in the community and always work hard to improve the reputation that has been created in the media.

Cooley said his fraternity’s main focus is community service and scholarship rather than constant partying.