congratulations!

Congratulations to you and AOII!

This week was incredible & stressful at the same time.
All of the sororities put on such amazing parties.

We have six NPC sororities: AOPi, DPhiE, Phi Sig, Tri Sig, AXiD, Phi Mu
First night: Sorority 101 (attend 6)
Second night: Philanthropy night (attend max. 5)
Third night: Sisterhood & Traditions (attend max. 3)
Fourth night: Preference night (attend max. 2)

We got our envelopes with our bids inside from our Rho Gammas this morning. Our tradition is to wear your new member shirt underneath a zip up jacket. Your Rho Gamma group gets on stage in front of all sororities (waiting with balloons & signs & cheers!) and turn around while unzipping your jacket...then run to your new family!

I accepted a bid from DPhiE today! Delta Lambda class. :)

(I'll try to post pictures of all new classes, soon)

P.S.-None of our sororities have houses. So afterward girls went to various locations on campus/sister's houses to have their welcoming parties. (gifts, food & mingling!)

CONGRATS to you and DPhiE!

That sounds like a fun way to do revealing.

Congrats to you, FIUpanther and DPhiE. Even more congrats to our new sister ching237 and AOII! Please stop by the AOII forum and say hi!

Congrats to both of you ladies and AOII as well as DPhiE!

Go introduce yourselves to your new sisters in your respective forums. I'm sure they are eager to meet you. :D

Congrats to you and to AOII! Roses!

BabyPink and others-

Do you think there is a chance that sororities at FIU will consider some kind of housing (or even chapter rooms) at some point since the sororities are becoming quite large? Is this largely a commuter/urban campus?

It is something that we as a Panhellenic addressed with the university last year. It doesn't look likely from my point of view, at least not for several years.

Some chapters are not properly prepared to finance something of this scale. While the school does not care if all groups have housing or suites, there are those in the Greek Life office who seem very insistant, either all or none. It is not ruled out, however. Many of the plots of land that are promised to fraternity housing may never see a house as most of the fraternities can not seem to "get it together" and have had several years to do so. There is also the idea of converting the least popular dorm into something of use, but I am not sure if that is still up for consideration. I'm not sure how much this year's Panhellenic (PC) has addressed it. I'm willing to bet not much.

I don't think FIU will have sorority housing for quite a while, if ever, like BabyPink said.

Yeah, the sororities are large and Greek life is getting bigger- but we are still something like 85% commuter. Combine that with the lack of available land (573 acres compared to a school like UF with about 2,000 acres) and you have a very small chance of sorority housing. (Not to mention we have these "nature preserves" that are just a waste of land.)

Although I won't rule it out. President Maidique has been trying to move FIU towards the traditional campus and he's made some strides, but again, not likely in the near future.

FIU still has a long way to go.

They are not a waste of land! Aren't the wild dogs still living there? I haven't seen them for a while. I heard they were trying to get rid of them, but surely some survived...

Haha, I think they are. We have plenty of swampland in Florida. :p

And I haven't heard anything about "wild hogs" in my year of being here... I think it's one of those phased-out superstitions- along with the "attacking ducks" I've heard about.

No...the attacking ducks are true. There are still people around who have witness sandwich snatchings!

As for the dogs...haven't seem them since Fall 06, but that means nothing. I never saw them before that either and I lived on campus from 05-06!

CONGRATS to the new AOII and DPhiE babies!!!