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For the record, I am not against a double establishment of a glo in one place. If the schools are big enough and close to one another so they can support each other ...Kudos!:)

DPhiE also has chapters at Bentley and Brandeis in Waltham, Mass. as well as Northeastern which is just a few miles away in Boston.

There are several chapters and a colony in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Drexel colony, La Salle, Philadelphia University, and University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.

ETA: There are also Miami, Florida chapters at University of Miami and Florida International University.

My ZTA chapter had a mixer with the Sammys from both UM and FIU- both are in Miami :)
I don't know the guys from Sammy, but I think they do associate with each other to a degree.

... you mean the Northeastern University in Boston, MA? Because I think the Northwestern University is in Evanston, IL! ;)

Edited because I double checked it, and I got confused as well!

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A few issues that come to mind, both positive and negative, include:

*A hesitation to colonize at that second institution because the first chapter is loaded with risk management issues.

*The potential for substantially greater PR through joint community service projects of the 2+ chapters.

Off hand, I know Tri Delta has the two chapters in Pittsburgh as previously listed, and we also have

Philadelphia: UPenn and Villanova
Los Angeles: UC/Los Angeles and Southern California

Re: Two Established Chapters in One City...
 

Don't forget the San Antonio Lambda Chi Alphas at UT - San Antonio and St. Mary's University. I am sure this exists in several org's.


For Alpha Phi:

Boston (4) - Boston University, MIT in Cambridge, Tufts U. in Medford, Bentley College in Waltham

Philadelphia (2) - University of Pennsylvania, St. Joseph's University

Los Angeles (3) - USC, UCLA, Loyola Marymount

San Diego (2) - USD, SDSU

Baltimore (2) - Johns Hopkins, Towson State U.

Washington DC area (2) - University of Maryland, George Washington U.


ETA: A few others I ran across

And Transylvania and University of Kentucky in Lexington.

I think that's it.

Kappa Alpha Theta has two collegiate chapters in Cambridge, Massachusetts -- MIT and Harvard.

Actually, Tridelt also has CSU Long Beach, CSU Northridge, and Pepperdine are all in less than a twenty mile radius from UCLA and the USC chapters. So Tridelta has FIVE chapters in one city with UC Irvine not too far away either! Luckily, we have several alumnae chapters within LA alone and each helps one chapter (like the West LA chapter helps UCLA).

And actually, we do have a somewhat regular interaction with one another...Pepperdine doesn't have a house (their greek system doesn't allow it) and so this past year they initiated at our house and my first year, we had a pledge dinner with USC's chapter. We are one big happy Tridelt family here in LA!

Alpha Phi has 1 chapter in Cambridge (MIT), 1 in Boston (Boston U), 1 in Waltham (Bentley College), and 1 in Medford (Tufts U). All are about 10 miles apart I'd say they are basically in the same city. Speaking as an alum, it's a lot of work to have so many so close. It's a lot of senior presents and a lot of ceremonies every May! But I love that we have a lot of new alums in the area because of them.

They all share the same subway system, so score 1 for Alpha Phi!

I don't quite understand the question...we have the 2 in SA & 2 in Chicago (and used to have 2 in Philly), but none of them are "twin" chapters. The alum chapter helps whichever collegiate chapter that might need it, or both, or neither. How much interaction the chapters have, I don't know...being in the same city doesn't necessarily mean you're next door to each other.

As russell said, the reason why you would want more than one chapter in a city is because there may be more than one quality institution in one city. Yes it's nice to spread out geographically, but I can't think of any group that would say "we can't go to Pitt because we already have a chapter at Carnegie Mellon." Both are places lots of GLOs would like to be.

Kappa's UCF and Rollins chapters are both in Orlando. We're about a 15 minute drive from each other.

We've held a joint Founder's Day celebration together, but other than that we don't hear much from each other. As our alumnae have laughingly put it, "We're about as different as two chapters can possibly be," so we really don't have that much common ground.

I went to Washington State University and although Pullman, WA is not a BIG city we had another chapter 6 miles away at the University of Idaho in Moscow, ID. Two different states, two different cities but closer than those in big cities. We I was a collegiate we did not do much socially together but we shared many advisors between the chapters.