Like most reality shows on MTV, the audience for Sorority Life 2 and Fraternity Life is predominantly college-aged.

Both shows include outlandish activities, plenty of drinking, and students fighting and begging for attention. The show's target audience at Penn State seems to be skeptical of the actions portrayed on the shows.

"They take these sorority events, like a family day picnic and this one girl was talking to her family and then two seconds later drinking and dancing with guys, and they make it out to be this huge deal," Jesse Marie Bender (junior-English) said.

The shows focus on Delta Xi Omega sorority and Sigma Chi Omega fraternity, both at the University at Buffalo. Neither greek organization has a national chapter.

Last week on Fraternity Life, a pledge's anger problem almost caused a car accident leading to yet another fight, while the brothers continue to harass the pledges.

"I think there are some similarities to my fraternity, but none of them are that great. Actually I think in most fraternities it's a lot worse than they portray it in on that show," said Jordan Cohen (sophomore-information sciences and technology), a member of Zeta Psi fraternity, 225 E. Foster Ave. "We can yell at our pledges but we don't hit them at all ... we never really even touch them."

The pledges on Fraternity Life are required to eat their meals together, which Cohen said is probably so they can get to know each other better.

"They get to know each other very well so they can be their own structure when they are pledging;" he said.

Some sorority members said they feel some of the drama on Sorority Life 2 is also fabricated for rating purposes. "I think it was definitely over dramatized because obviously they were showing girls at the bars underage and that isn't how it is here. Here they are really strict. I mean, I am 22 and they barely believe that my ID is real sometimes," said Sarah Real (senior-communications), a member of Phi Mu sorority. "I think that is what people saw sisterhood as but bonding can be going to a movie together or going to a non-alcoholic social with another frat".

Shelly Deemer, a member of Zeta Tam Alpha sorority, agreed.

"[The show] definitely does not display what sororities are really like. I think they are trying to fit the stereotype of sororities for the show." Deemer said. "The concept of that sorority is completely different from the sorority I am in. When I watched part of the show, I was laughing the whole time."

Real said the show may be a little different because it is a local sorority, not a national one.

"I don't think that is the way sororities are at all, and I think it really steers people away from joining the greek community -- either a fraternity or a sorority," Real said.

Sorority Life 2 airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m., while Fraternity Life airs Wednesdays at 10:30 p.m. on MTV