:D I'll have to see if my sister is interested. She thought joining a sorroity would be fun, but with 10 of them on campus she always disliked the idea of rush.... this may be just the thing! Thanks for letting me know!!!

XO Michelle is your sister at Duke? I would think the new group would want Jrs and Srs, at least Delta Gamma did when they colonized at NCSU

Actually, this last Thursday was just the Panhellenic Exec Council's reccommendation to the delegates (exec members don't have a vote), and the delegates will be voting next Thursday.

As far as Alpha Phi- that technically wasn't adding a new chapter, as I understand it. As far as I know, they never left campus. AEPhi was similar in that when they left I believe there were about 3 members remaining (ie clearly not viable anymore). From what I've heard, it often seems like a better plan to shut down when you get too small and hope for the opportunity to start again from the ground up at a later date. That said, I know that Alpha Phi is not entirely happy with the decision to expand.

To answer XO Michelle, the new chapter will definitely be looking for upperclassmen to join, so please encourage your sister to check it out! If she wants, she can send her info to Dean Adams in the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, and he can give whichever chapter comes on campus her info.

isn't the decision supposed to be made today, finally?

I heard that the orgs will be notified tomorrow (Friday).

The delegats meeting is tonight around 7 or 7:30 and they can take all the time they like to discuss and ask questions of the Extension Committee, so there's no specific time when they'll have the selection. I'm not sure when the selected sorority will be notified, but tomorrow sounds reasonable.

I have to say, from what little I know about Duke and its sororities, I'm stunned that they're expanding so soon after Alpha Phi's reorganization (then again, it also seemed to me that Alpha Phi should have taken a longer break from campus, so what do I know).

our national director of expansion said we would be notified tomorrow.

Yes she is! I think she would really like it. She's a junior this year.

Duke's Decision!
 

According to the Duke daily newspaper (The Chronicle), the Panhellenic Council voted to ask Zeta Tau Alpha to be the 10th chapter at Duke!

Congratulations to ZTA!

Here's a link to the article:

http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/vnews/.../41540b3661433

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

That makes me so HAPPY! After having a horrible day since we have another hurricane, I'm so excited to have this great news!

I wish all the best to my future sisters at newly opened Phi chapter at Duke University!

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

Congrats to ZTA!!! :)

I have to say that I don't much care for the comments of the KAT and DDD members quoted in the article. On that campus, those chapters are very much among the "haves," and IMHO they aren't being terribly gracious toward the "have-nots."

The comments are almost comical coming from them. They have NO experience with anything even closely resembling a colony. They are stewards of a successful organization, nothing more. What these ZTA colony members will be doing is starting a new tradition instead of being handed something old.

It sounds like ZTA has committed a ton of resources to this, so I'm certain they will have huge success.