If it's not on Anchors Online, I would consider it to be rumor until noted otherwise.
http://www.deltagamma.org/new_sites.shtml

In other news, that Pi Phi house looks really beautiful (from Page 1)

It seems like the range of size of sororities is weirdly big.

I don't have many campuses to compare it to, but it seems like at UGA (or any of the ones I've ever looked up) there are always a couple of lower outliers in the size range, but generally there's a big group whose sizes essentially reflect a number close to what quota has been for the last four years, minus 5 or 10%.

But at Alabama, it looks like the range is like 50 girls from the biggest group to the groups at the lower end of the big clump. What's up with that?

It also seems weird that you can't tell what quota was by the number of pledges.

Alabama has "free" juniors and seniors-- you can pick up as many during rush and they don't count toward quota.

Cool! Thanks for the info.

Delta Gamma left the University of Alabama about thirty years ago.

The magnificent old grandfather clock that used to sit in the foyer of the former chapter house now sits in DG national headquarters in Columbus, Ohio.

Bama is not an easy place for a group that would be seen as newcomers, although we came on there back in the 40's, I believe.

And I may be wrong, but the groups who have never been on campus don't seem to have any chapters close by, making it less likely, it seems to me, to have good alumnae support compared to some of the other chapters who came and left.

Does anyone here go to Bama, or live near the University?

banditone,

My daughter is a DZ at the University of Alabama living on campus at the new Lakeside dormitory. Can I answer a question for you? She keeps me informed of DZ happenings all the time.

Yes it is true, that they do not count towards normal quota, however there is a special upperclassmen quota which is utilized, quota last year for upperclassmen was like 5.

Also I am not sure about these rumors, Al Panhel just upped house total to like somewhere in the 200s, before recolonizing either DG or SK they have to make sure that all the houses are close to total.

I was looking at the AL Panhellenic site and it seems that there was a vite to raise house total in November to 180 - did it end up getting raised to higher than this? According to the Fall 06 grade report, there are 4 of the 15 groups under total. Several groups have numbers in the 220's!!! Two of them are within 14 of this new total and two more of them are much further under total. My question is... do you think they'll wait for all four groups to get to total? My thought is that maybe wait and let the two groups who are close get to total... but the other two groups are smaller than the next smaller by more than double (ex: 12, 85, and the next group has 166...) One more slightly random question... how big of a new member class do you think a colonizing sorority would have to take be to be competitive???


PS: Coming from a campus where total is 60 and that's considered HUGE, these numbers seem outrageous to me!

The number of new members would have little to do with whether or not the new chapter would be considered competitive.

So what I meant was not competitive, but more... stable? I know tradition and reputation have a lot to do with success at a school like that, but what I was asking is more "What would the ideal beginning be for an organization colonizing?"

Generally, you like to start a colony that is either at Chapter Total or the Average Chapter Size, whichever is the larger. Sometimes a group may opt to take less than that. It just depends.

I'm probably in the minority, but I think it would be nice to see a non-tradtional SEC sorority make it at Bama. Something for those women who aren't Southern Belles, groomed for rush since birth.