Yes you're right. (And I knew that, haha.) Silly me... posting replies at 2:00 in the morning. Maybe the lack of sleep is effecting my memory? In any event, I apologize for the error.... post is edited!! :)

LOL it's okay - I think I know SigEp history better than my own sometimes, my boyfriend was a founding father of his chapter. :)

I've always thought Mizzou had a really interesting Greek system.

STL Kappa and FAB Spicey Spice and any other Mizzou folks--

Regarding Greek houses at MU:
* Where is the AKL annex?
* Didn't someone build an annex in what used to be the vacant lot on Curtis (between the former AGD/SK and the former LXZ/now Phi Mu), and what is it?
* What's in the building between TriDelt and Chi O? For a while it was DPhiE.
* Sigma Pi was at the corner of Providence and, umm--Rollins?(the street that PiPhi and Kappa and Delt are on). AGD was there for a year. What's there now?
* What's between Delt and the Sigma Pi house?
* What's at the corner of Providence and Kentucky?
* Is there any available land across Providence, between PhiPsi and PhiDelt?
* Any available real estate across the street from DU and the Newman Center? (IIRC those were streets of old houses, divided into many apartments. Possible to tear down and replace with Greek houses?)
* There used to be a couple of frat houses on a side street east of College. Maybe University? In my day one of them was a women's home ec coop. Way, way back it was Delta Chi, maybe.
What's there now?
* I remember reading that there's major residence hall refurbishing--Jones, Laws, Lathrop being torn down? Where will students (many PNMs among them) stay?

Thanks for the info! I'm feeling nostalgic!

Ye olde AGD Alum

Mizzou is The Flag Ship of Missouri!

But, Now, Mo. State Un. Missouri is now becoming in Focus!

SWMoState U.

If any have Been to Columbia, Land is Prime as it is at most Flag Schools!

Paying to build New Houses is very expensive. So what do Greeks Do? Rent from those that were closed.

LXA was owned by LCAP a part of LXA, then sold and then rented SX when they got a Charter Pulled. SX Got Charter Pulled and the rest is History.

I keep reading these posts and wonder How Many Greeks can afford to go to a Major Campus and Compete with Intrenceched GLOs who have Nice Houses? Oh, dont forget, keep them up!:cool:

Hmm, let's see what I can tell you...

- The AKL annex is on the corner of Providence and Rollins, next door to Delta Tau Delta. (Surprisingly, it's closer to the Delts and maybe even Sigma Pi than it is to the AKL house... haha.)

- The annex between the former AGD/former Sig Kap house and the Phi Mu house is Phi Mu's annex.

- The only thing I know of between Chi O and Tri Delt is Tri Delt's annex... maybe it once housed DPhiE and now Tri Delt owns it?

- Sigma Pi is on the little stretch of Providence between Rollins and Burnam. I think that's where they've always been.

- Delt (which faces Rollins) and Sigma Pi (which faces Providence) are on different streets but are both next door to the AKL annex. (I don't know if that answers your question, but that's the only thing I can think of!)

- Pi Kappa Alpha and SigEp are both around Providence and Kentucky... Pi Kappa Alpha faces Providence while Sig Ep is kind of at Curtis/Kentucky.

- Umm, I don't know! :)

- Cornell Hall (home of the business school?) is now directly across Maryland from DU and the Newman Center... I believe it's relatively new. Between that and the alumni center, there is NO space.

- There are still many a-fraternity house on College (between Rollins and about Broadway, I guess?) but the only house on University is Kappa Alpha Order.

- Jones, Laws and Lathrop are being torn down, but the first to go (Goodbye Jones!) won't be demolished until fall of 2012. Residential Life is in the middle of a 10+ year project to replace/renovate all dorms. (Check it out here: http://reslife.missouri.edu/RLMP/index.html)

I have a few questions, too but I don't know if anyone can help me... oh well, here goes anyway!:

- I believe the current AKL house (on Richmond, between Kappa and ADPi) used to be the AEPhi house... was it anything before that?
- Did Alpha Omicron Pi have a house during their years at Mizzou? Where was it?
- KD says their house on Rollins used to be a fraternity house... anybody know which one?

Yes, Mizzou is the flag ship of Missouri... and that's not going to change.

The great name debate stirred things up around Columbia and Springfield and in the end they've got one less word in their name and not much else. :rolleyes: Don't get me wrong... Southwest (I haven't heard one SMSU student refer to it as MSU, maybe when they start I'll think about it) is a great school... I just don't get what they were trying to accomplish fighting so hard to change their name. (Then again, I don't know what we were getting at by trying to stop them.) They didn't want a "regional" moniker... but they are in southwest Missouri, are they not?

The whole name thing has them in the spotlight... but the university is no different then it was before. They won't be able to replicate our grad programs and Mizzou will still be the only university with land grant and research designations... the UMC system is huge- Kansas City, Columbia, Rolla, St. Louis. All this just for a name... goodness. I think I'm done now, haha...

**More questions, and some answers!

- Pi Kappa Alpha and SigEp are both around Providence and Kentucky... Pi Kappa Alpha faces Providence while Sig Ep is kind of at Curtis/Kentucky.

**Yes, but there's a house between the two at the corner of Prov/Ky. Kind of white stucco? In the 50's it was Phi Sigma Sigma, I think.

- There are still many a-fraternity house on College (between Rollins and about Broadway, I guess?) but the only house on University is Kappa Alpha Order.

**Farther east on University than KA.

I have a few questions, too but I don't know if anyone can help me... oh well, here goes anyway!:

**I can answer those!

- I believe the current AKL house (on Richmond, between Kappa and ADPi) used to be the AEPhi house... was it anything before that?

**I thought that it was always the AEPhi house. However, the AEPhi chapter was chartered in 1929 and the house could well be older than that. You can find out several ways, one of which is searching old Columbia city directories.

- Did Alpha Omicron Pi have a house during their years at Mizzou? Where was it?

**The house between Pi Phi and DU. That was the Phi Kappa Theta house in the 70's and it may still be; for a while PKT wasn't there (I don't know the story) and AOPi was. [Back in the early 60's AGD was in that house for a while, and that's a whole 'nother story.]

- KD says their house on Rollins used to be a fraternity house... anybody know which one?

**Sigma Alpha Mu. KD's success shows that a sorority at MU can make it in a modern house. (The AGD house at 908 Curtis was so mid-60's modern that it didn't "go" with the Colonial Revival style of the other houses.)

HTH!

AGDAlum
....whose brief experience as a Little Sister was for the AKL *colony*

I answered some of my own questions at the MU Greek Life site. There's a map of Greek housing. Looks as though the corner of Prov/Ky is a vacant (parking) lot, for example.

AGD Alum

According to an old issue of the Savitar Yearbook Delta Sigma Phi, until it closed in 1935, occupied the house that later became Alpha Epsilon Phi.

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From the 1929 Savitar. Isn't this the former AEPhi, now AKL, house?

AGDAlum

So tonight at chapter we found out that panhel is organizing a committee to look into whether or not expansion would be something that we'd be interested in as a community. All 13 sororities made quota during recruitment and we are waaaaaaaay above where our totals should be. (Apparently our total should be about 155, most houses are above 180 and some are even more than 200 members.) I just thought I'd see what everyone's opinions were, and if you'd like to see your organization colonize/recolonize at Mizzou! (When Phi Mu came back in 2001, they presented along with Delta Zeta who has never had a chapter here, and AOII who had an inactive chapter here. Sigma Kappa left in 2004 and still has a house here.) I think it'd be so great to have another chapter!

Yay for a Phi Sig chapter way back when.

As for Phi Sig, I know we are at a lot of smaller schools now - our big chapters - Zeta at UCLA, Iota at Pitt, our Penn State chapter, NYU etc are all closed.

We are found mostly in the North East (founded in NYC), Florida and California. We have a few chapters in Canada and in other states.

I want to see us expand to the interior of the US - but apparently expansion is not a main focus anymore.

Beh.

Are you sure there was a Mizzou chapter? I have heard from some Tri Sigmas that there was, and others have said there's never been a chapter here.

I think it'd be a great addition... so many students in Missouri "end up" at Mizzou after trying other schools. On Friday alone I saw three or four girls walking around with Tri Sigma shirts on... just because they've transferred from other chapters in the state.

If I had to guess on who would present I'd say... Sigma Kappa, since they JUST left, and AOII since they had a recent chapter and just presented... and a mystery org!! (Haha, I can't think of a third one.)

I graduated from SMSU 5 years ago. Fraternities close and recolonize, while the same six sorority houses have been there since I started college. Phi Mu tried to recolonize there while I was in school and failed b/c the colony had some kind of civil war. It was a shame, b/c I knew some of them and liked them.