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Alfred State Greek Life

At my college there are numerous locals.

Zeta Gamma Sigma
Omega Delta Phi
Phi Kappa Pi
Alpha Kappa Phi
Alpha Delta Kappa

I am apart of a local sorority (Kappa Phi Beta) at St. Johns University Queens Campus
currently there are only 3 local organizations.
Kappa Phi Beta Sorority
Lambda Phi Sorority
Sigma Chi Beta Fraternity

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Originally Posted by kphib57 (Post 2069007)

My grandmother was in a local at St. John's! (Brooklyn campus, I think.) It was Alpha Beta Chi. Founded in 1950...I have no clue what happened to the chapter...

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Originally Posted by AGPhiBete (Post 1068641)

We aren't a local but we may as well be.... I'm the President of the only NYC chapter of Phi Beta Psi, a national, non-academic sorority...though our chapter is made up entirely of college aged girls, many of whom attend CUNY schools....and unlike many of the Phi Beta Psi chapters across the country, our chapter is run as much like a regular collegiate GLO as possible.

Right now, I am trying to get us more involved in Greek Life around the NY area...though it's hard because we are a) not on a college campus and b) not always acknowledged by other Greeks...

so its hard :-( if anyone is interested in planning some kind of get together, event, mixer, etc, let me know!

Kappa Tau Sigma is a non-collegiate GLO near NYC! Before we decided to start our own, I contacted Phi Beta Psi to get more info on the organization but no one returned my email :( We'd love to contact you girls. We could help each other with philanthropy projects and events!

Idk if its okay to revive an old thread, but Stony Brook University used to have Phi Chi Epsilon and Epsilon Sigma Phi, Sigma Iota Sigma is now the only one left.

The school has done very little to help the locals, which were all multicultural orgs.

Stony Brook's policy makes it incredibly difficult to revive (or start) a local (it might even straight up ban it, I can't remember), and its Greek Life has already been struggling... but if this year's homecoming is any indication, it seems like the BGLO's are making a comeback

I notice the local thing depends on the school. NYU is all national now but a lot of the CUNYs in the city mainly have citywide local sororities or multicultural/D9 orgs.

In the SUNYs upstate there are locals that exists alongside national chapters, and some are even as old as many national organizations, like Sigma Gamma Phi for example.

I wish there were more stats on local orgs... it seems like Greek Life is wayyyy less popular than it used to be, at least in New York, but it could just be a temporary slump from the pandemic...

I wonder if there are any new locals, or if we are trending towards the locals slowly being replaced by Nationals. It feels next to impossible to start a local at a specific campus, so maybe we will see more city/county based chapters?

I notice with the many multicultural/D9 orgs, there are within city wide chapters or will “share” a chapter with another campus. (like XYZ’s alpha alpha chapter will be on campus 1 and 2)

I haven’t seen that kind of phase out of locals just yet with CUNY’s, and only Binghamton has really taken into expansion with all kinds of fraternities and sororities.

Oh to bring up greek life; the SUNYs have expanded a little but not to a huge extent like Binghamton, which have expanded with every type of org (PHC, D9, etc.) and the private unis have done the same. But I notice the other SUNYs have very few or have underground versions that were kicked off for RMFs. I always hoped Albany would bring back all it's PHC and IFC orgs at some point so student don't turn to underground orgs.