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Embry-Riddle
 

Hello from the Embry-Riddle Colony. I heard rumblings of what is up with us, so...

We were to be installed on April 2nd, but grade reports were slow in coming for some reason and we ended up only having about a week from the vote to the banquet, so too much planning to do. We decided that we should tell Nationals we would rather do it in the Fall so we can make it an even more memorable event rather than thrown together. Also, our numbers were on the low side staying steady between 24 and 26 with people transferring out and our open recruitment bringing more women in.

We are hoping to have the banquet in September, early October. I am so excited about being initiated that I almost cry everytime I think about it! We worked our tails off for this whole school year and are definately excited about the fall.

When it gets closer to time, I will post an invite to the banquet to any Sigmas in the area!

Anyhow, that's my update on Riddle. And *snaps* to making the whole huge list!

Visit our website made by the lovely Jackie at www.freewebs.com/sigmasigmasigma :D

Re: Re: Embry Riddle
 

*crash*

Any news on the IU chapter effort? I definitely think expansion is needed there, considering only half the women who rush get a bid. The big hurdle is finding land for a house...there really isn't much, if any, to be had.

The chapter at IU closed at the end of the 1993-1994 school year after a few unsuccessful rushes. Alpha Sigma Alpha and Sigma Kappa also closed that year for the same reason. (Tri-Sigma had 35 or so members, Sigma Kappa had 62 and ASA had under 20, most of the chapters at IU have well over 100 members.) There was a story about that in the IU yearbook from that year. One tidbit: when the closing of the chapter was announced, the pledges (they were still pledges back then!) were given the choice to go through and be initiated, or to drop and be able to rerush another sorority in the fall. (The decision was made something like two weeks into the semester) Everyone chose to initiate, no one dropped. That really says something about Sigma sisterhood. :)

There was a presentation at IU in 2002-03 about recolonization. I was a member of the group interested in becoming a colony.

Representatives from Headquarters gave a presentation to the current greek community, then had another for the women interested in Tri Sigma. We turned in a list of our contact information, but unfortunately never heard anything further. All of the members of that group have since graduated.

IU does need another chapter or two because there are so many deserving women who don't get bids because of quotas.

I didn't join another sorority. I was a sophomore at the time and recruitment had already ended. IU is so competitive that trying to rush as a junior would have been fruitless.

I graduated last December and I've just been really focused on trying to find a job, so I haven't even thought about alumni initiation.

It definitely would have been nice to hear what happened. We didn't try to contact the IU greek office because they had been kind-of disorganized and unhelpful before the presentation; plus, the Sigma ladies told us they would update us. *shrug*

Psi
 

Psi Chapter is most certainly not closed and never ever has been!!! I know, I'm in it!

To answer whoever posed the question, "Why does Sigma go for smaller schools?"

Answer: Because at smaller schools, everyone is greek, thus the greek system flourishes there. Aside from southern schools, you aren't going to find a whole lot of big schools with big greek life. Marshall University has over 15,000 students and less the 5% are greek.

I don't know if anyone mentioned this but the Grand Valley chapter is closed.

Small schools
 

Another reason Sigma chapters tend to me at small schools is because when we initially began colonizing, we went to teacher schools. Obviously these were smaller than most normal university. An example of this is my chapter, Alpha Chi, which is at Murray State University. Murray was originally a teacher's college and we were the first social greek organization to be founded there in January 1942.

SLAM, Courtney