Thanks for the hx, NUBlue - I also remember visiting my sister back when she was in college in the 70's and SAM and ZTA were in that area, also. That is now where they have built the now ever popular apartment housing complex to the south of HSS.

Yes, they are all very old chapters and very well established. They all line a "T" area right in the drive by heart of campus in very stately houses - lots of vines and ivy and English Tudor house - the ones the the dorms just weren't the same.

DD said ADPi would love to have a house but there isn't one there at the present time. What Beta Sig? You mean Beta Sig the Lutheran fraternity? I remember them being in more a dorm area, like where Acacia is in the early 80's. They have started back up again, though. Don't know too much about them these days.

ah, this is correct, tri delt DID take 24!!

i'm actually in tri delts new pledge class @ isu! i LOOOVE it so far! : ]]

Congrats!!! I was wondering how things went for you.

What she said!! People are often surprised to find out how old the greek system is on some of the land grant universities of the old Big 8. Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State have many single letter chapters that have been in continuous existence and are still thriving today. For instance, Kappa Delta, often regarded as a "deep south sorority" has Nu chapter at Oklahoma State and Pi chapter at the University of Nebraska.

I can't imagine the difficulty of an unhoused chapter competing with housed chapters in Lincoln--the houses there are big and beautiful, and the expectation is that everyone lives in for three years. My hat is off to the women of ADPi for their efforts. I wish them well, and hope they have a great recruitment!

Iowa State has quite a few established chapters as well. Mu (now Iowa Gamma) of Pi Beta Phi was founded in 1877, Delta (now Omega Delta) chapter of Delta Delta Delta in 1889, Sigma Sigma chapter of Kappa Delta in 1908, Pi chapter of Alpha Delta Pi in 1911, Rho chapter of Alpha Gamma Delta in 1917 and Omega chapter of Gamma Phi Beta in 1918.

Grats Ruaprincess!

Wow, many, many older chapters at ISU as well--another great school. (I just love the old Big Eight schools...) 1877 is pretty darn old, even for Pi Phi! The change in chapter designation really disguises the seniority of many of these venerable chapters at ISU.

The old Big 8 (really old chapters are bold):

University of Colorado
Pi Beta Phi 1884, Delta Gamma 1886, Kappa Kappa Gamma 1901, Chi Omega 1906, Alpha Chi Omega 1907, Delta Delta Delta 1910, Alpha Delta Pi1914-1985, Kappa Alpha Theta 1921, Alpha Phi 1924-?/?, Delta Zeta 1924-1984, Alpha Omicron Pi 1927, Delta Phi Epsilon 1940-1966, Zeta Tau Alpha 1947-1972, Kappa Delta 1947-?, Sigma Delta Tau 1947-1971, Alpha Epsilon Phi 1952-?, Gamma Phi Beta 1954, Alpha Gamma Delta 1958-1988

Iowa State University
Pi Beta Phi 1877-?/1906, Delta Delta Delta 1890-1894/1912, Kappa Delta 1908, Alpha Delta Pi 1911, Alpha Gamma Delta 1917, Gamma Phi Beta 1918, Sigma Kappa 1920, Chi Omega 1922, Zeta Tau Alpha 1926-1939/1970-1998, Delta Zeta 1931, Kappa Kappa Gamma 1946, Kappa Alpha Theta 1948, Alpha Chi Omega 1961, Alpha Omicron Pi 1968, Alpha Xi Delta 1969-2003, Alpha Phi 1977-1998

Kansas State University
Alpha Delta Pi 1915, Delta Delta Delta 1915, Delta Zeta 1915-1976, Pi Beta Phi 1915, Chi Omega 1915, Kappa Kappa Gamma 1916, Kappa Delta 1920-1993/1999, Alpha Xi Delta 1922, Zeta Tau Alpha 1931-1940, Alpha Chi Omega 1947, Gamma Phi Beta 1957, Kappa Alpha Theta 1961, Sigma Sigma Sigma 1982-?, Alpha Gamma Delta 1985-1989, Sigma Kappa 1991

University of Kansas
Pi Beta Phi 1873, Kappa Alpha Theta 1881, Kappa Kappa Gamma 1883, Chi Omega 1902, Alpha Delta Pi 1912, Sigma Kappa 1913, Alpha Chi Omega 1914, Alpha Xi Delta 1915-1935/1992-1998, Gamma Phi Beta 1915, Alpha Omicron Pi 1918-1969/1980-1996, Theta Phi Alpha 1921-1955, Alpha Gamma Delta 1922-?/1965, Delta Zeta 1926-1936, Delta Gamma 1941, Delta Delta Delta 1946, Alpha Phi 1950-1989, Alpha Epsilon Phi 1970-1971, Sigma Delta Tau 1985, Kappa Delta 1990

University of Missouri
Kappa Kappa Gamma 1875, Pi Beta Phi 1899, Delta Gamma 1909, Kappa Alpha Theta 1909, Alpha Phi 1910-?/1998, Phi Mu 1913-1944/2001, Chi Omega 1913, Alpha Delta Pi 1915 , Delta Delta Delta 1915, Gamma Phi Beta 1921, Theta Phi Alpha 1921-1927, Alpha Gamma Delta 1922-1978/1981-?, Alpha Chi Omega 1922, Zeta Tau Alpha 1924-?/195?, Alpha Epsilon Phi 1929-1997, Phi Sigma Sigma 1935-1955, Sigma Delta Tau 1957-1968, Sigma Kappa 1968-?/1990-2004, Kappa Delta 1975, Delta Phi Epsilon 1978-1984, Alpha Omicron Pi 1986-1994

University of Nebraska
Kappa Kappa Gamma 1884, Kappa Alpha Theta 1887-1891/1896, Delta Gamma 1888, Delta Delta Delta 1894, Pi Beta Phi 1895, Alpha Omicron Pi 1903, Chi Omega 1903, Alpha Phi 1906, Alpha Chi Omega 1907, Delta Zeta 1910-1971, Alpha Xi Delta 1912, Gamma Phi Beta 1914, Alpha Delta Pi 1915-?/1963, Kappa Delta 1920, Phi Mu 1921-?/?, Zeta Tau Alpha 1922-1962/?-1980, Sigma Kappa 1923-1972, Theta Phi Alpha 1924-1937, Sigma Delta Tau 1925-?

Oklahoma State University
Kappa Delta 1919, Kappa Alpha Theta 1919, Pi Beta Phi 1919, Chi Omega 1920, Delta Zeta 1922-?/1989-1994, Zeta Tau Alpha 1923, Alpha Delta Pi 1921-1930/1939, Alpha Chi Omega 1947, Kappa Kappa Gamma 1947, Gamma Phi Beta 1958, Delta Delta Delta 1962, Alpha Xi Delta 1968-1981, Phi Mu 1973-?/1991

University of Oklahoma
Kappa Alpha Theta 1909, Delta Delta Delta 1910, Pi Beta Phi 1910, Kappa Kappa Gamma 1914, Alpha Chi Omega 1916, Alpha Phi 1917-1998/2007, Gamma Phi Beta 1918, Delta Gamma 1918-?/199?, Alpha Gamma Delta 1919, Chi Omega 1919, Alpha Xi Delta 1921-1952/1984-1984, Phi Mu 1923-1965/1998-2007, Alpha Omicron Pi 1924-1933/2002, Sigma Delta Tau 1929-1975, Alpha Delta Pi 1947-1970, Zeta Tau Alpha 1953-200?, Kappa Delta 1955-199?, Alpha Epsilon Phi 1956-1979, Delta Phi Epsilon 1966-1969, Sigma Sigma Sigma 1980-1982

I stand corrected--ADPi was founded before the 1920's. However, I think both ADPi and Phi Mu have had periods where they were gone for a few years and then came back, or got down to a very small size and hung in there unhoused. This means no legacies and no group of alums to look to for support for big blocks of years.

This is what happened to my husband's fraternity, TKE, which was Phi chapter. When we were in college, it was huge. They won intramurals every year, had somebody on homecoming court, SAA, Mortar Board, etc. and they lived in 2 houses on University Terrace (next door to both KD and DG--this was the ZTA house), an annex next to the AXiD house and in the Hotel California on T St. (Yikes!) But they had been on and off campus several times during their history and at that time had no alums of the prime money producing age to help out and within ten years they were gone again.

The good thing is that sororities can keep it going better, especially if they have support from nationals, and it looks like ADPi has decided to work with their situation rather than going away. Good for them!

Beta Sigma Psi lived in what is now the Phi Mu house next door to us. I don't know when they went away. The ZTA house was right next door to the DG house and the TKE house was next door to KD on University Terrace next to Cather Pound. After ZTA left in 1980, TKE moved in there, and stayed in the old house, too. I remember that the dining room had zebra wallpaper and lime green chairs...bold decorating choice!:eek:

The SAM house was on the corner of 16th and Vine, across from DU on Vine and AXO on 16th.

Phi Mu and ADPi lived in the two houses directly behind Schramm and Triangle and Chi Phi lived in the houses behind the parking lot lovingly referred to as "Eastern Iowa".

Gads...did that just bring back memories or what?! :eek:

I used to live in Abel 13, aka 'The Zoo'.

Just curious- from the dates, has ADPi been on campus without a house since 1963? That is amazing!!!

No, they had a house when I was there in the 80's, I believe. They came back to campus in 1963...my guess is that they used their former house or acquired a new one. There an older article in the Daily Nebraskan archive about them. Says they left their house in 1998.

ADPi lived in a university owned sorority house behind the dorm complex in the 1980's when I was in college. They were 4 identical block style brick buildings, circa 1970's.

Nebraska Chapter Houses
 

Here are a couple of links where you can see the houses and then link to the chapter websites.

http://www.unl.edu/greek/sororitychapters.html

http://www.unl.edu/greek/fraternitieschapters.html

Besides the T formed by Greek Row on City Campus, there are also quite a few Ag Fraternities on East Campus.

NUBlue&Blue, THANK you for posting those pictures! What beautiful old chapter houses.

Ever since my Okla St. days, I have always believed that a "real" university should have (in addition to all of the latest scientific and liberal arts amenities) 1) an AGR chapter 2) a Farmhouse chapter and 3) a Dairy Science building with the little student store selling ice cream from the model farm dairy science cows...

I hadn't seen the updated Sigma chapter site -- it's Wonderful!!! Delta Omicron needs to update their website, badly!!

Iowa State has two of the three - with the Dairy Science club selling home made ice cream during VEISHEA (but it has to compete with nitro-freezed ice cream from the Engineering college, which is tough - that stuff is goooood!)

Washington State has all three, plus cheese in addition to ice cream. U Idaho has the first two, but instead of a dairy with ice cream we have Vandal Brand Meats. I'm a big fan of the Viking Cheese and Ferdinand's Grabbers.

Thanks, I had never seen our chapter's website. Am I a dork to think their "Slice of Pi" newsletter is a cute name? Their 3.5 GPA requirement for recruitment still floors me......

My chapter's Out-of-house newsletter was called "A Slice of Pi" too!

Yep, you are triggering that SAM - I wondered why I remembered them - it was because you drove right by them when you went through campus. You have got a great memory! But I wonder who was in the PhiMu/BetaSig house before them? I was at state bball in 1979 and we stayed on the floor at the Beta Sig house in someones friend of a friend's room - I think ;) (the age in NE then WAS 19, after all!) and it was on Vine street past what is now Beedle Hall.

I don't remember ZTA being there, though!

Back to ALMOST Big 12 - at UNO, a friend of mine's dd pledged Chi O. (There are no houses at UNO - heck, they just got DORMS not too long ago! It is historically a commuter campus but has become quite popular with the dorms now that they have them)

I hadn't seen the updated website either. It was the same for so long, I just quit checking to see if it was updated!

My brother sends us a big gift box from the Dairy Store on East Campus every year for Christmas....we can't wait until it comes. I'll have to see if I can find a link!

I don't remember anybody but Beta Sig (I think I'm remembering the right fraternity). I never remember anybody else being down on Vine except Acacia, but then again, I was a little self absorbed back then! ;) I hadn't really looked at the fraternity page very closely until today and I noticed that Kappa Sig is gone and Triangle is in their house now (next door to the ELCA Lutheran Center). I took my daughter all over last February when we went on our college visit, but I never noticed that.

I like how every house looks really different. One of my favorites is Alpha Xi Delta--it is stunning, the ceiling in the foyer was painted by the same person who painted the mural in the rotunda of the state capitol building. They just redecorated in the past couple of years and it looks gorgeous. I'm also fond of AOPi and Theta because I love the Dutch Colonial style. Kappa and Alpha Phi are painted brick. There are a few 1960's block houses as well, just to break up the monotony! And I think ChiO's French chateau is adorable (the trees are kind of big in the picture so you can't see the house very well).

And I'm sure I was at State BBall in 1979, too! I always stayed with my friend who was 2 years older and she lived in Sandoz!

I was there with some friends from KSC - they were there to watch Axtell. And that's all I know....:D

And back in that day, you ordered Fraternity Sportswear about once a year. Some guy came around and took orders. I was quite the fashion AOII because I got a light blue hoodie with two tone greek letters! That was a first in about 1980. Previous to that, your choices were gold on blue, blue on white, that kind of thing. I did like my AOII sweats!

I will let you'll know when the newspaper posts the results from NE.

In case you want to get a jump on your Christmas shopping, here's a link to the Dairy Store. :D

http://dairystore.unl.edu/index.shtml

I was in Lincoln for a work related meeting at Memorial Stadium back in June. Before the meeting the manager for our company who used to live in Lincoln drove myself and my boss around campus. They weren't nearly as excited as I was when I found the Theta chapter. The chapter houses are beautiful and so amazingly close to campus!

Re: the dairy store. I agree with ISUKappa that the ice cream at VEISHEA is fantastic (I had some this year, I waited for almost half an hour to get it). Michigan State has a dairy store too that had great ice cream when I lived in Michigan. They (MSU) also had chocolate cheese which I just had to try. I rationalized I love chocolate, I love cheese. I did not love chocolate cheese. I'm going to have to hit up the Nebraska Dairy Store some time though...

These are not in the Big 8, but are also old northern chapters of Delta Delta Delta. Some older chapters have been in continuous existence since the 1800s: Knox 1889; Simpson 1889; Syracuse 1896; Ohio State 1896; St. Lawrence 1891 and Wisconsin 1898.

Too true! In the 70's, all sorority gear was basically the same, no matter which group you joined and no matter how much money you had. You could get a dark blue heavy shirt with sleeves to the elbows with gold sewn on letters, OR a blue snap up the front windbreaker with white sewn on letters or white silkscreened crest over the breast. We lived in those. Party t shirts were made, but we didn't wear them to class. You ordered stuff once a year, or the one store in town that carried greek gear had a few. But how many windbreakers did you need? People got one with letters as a pledge, then usually "traded up" to a crest after initiation.

Bid day gifts? looking back, they had that touching "made at home" look. A small glass jar with decal letters filled with M&M's, a small wooden plaque, hastily stained or painted in your colors, with the same decal, etc. We usually made a trip to the dime store on bid morning to get hershey's kisses, glass jars, etc. None of the houses gave out anything but pledge ribbons (to be worn to class until you were officially pledged and got your pledge pin) and Bid Day t shirts.

Re: the Dairy store web sites: MMmmmmmmm. Cheese. From the Dairy Store. Delivered..... Is there anything better than life at a Land Grant?

Did we ever hear anything about rush at KState? Is it over?

Quota at K State was 41. The only result I have heard was Alpha Xi Delta took 43.

[QUOTE=Katmandu;1509764]Too true! In the 70's, all sorority gear was basically the same, no matter which group you joined and no matter how much money you had. You could get a dark blue heavy shirt with sleeves to the elbows with gold sewn on letters, OR a blue snap up the front windbreaker with white sewn on letters or white silkscreened crest over the breast. We lived in those. Party t shirts were made, but we didn't wear them to class. You ordered stuff once a year, or the one store in town that carried greek gear had a few. But how many windbreakers did you need? People got one with letters as a pledge, then usually "traded up" to a crest after initiation.

My bid day gift was probably a stuffed panda, end of story. I was social chair and it was a real big deal to order the right favor for Formal. We only had favors about 4 times a year - everyone had wine glasses, etc so I did something out of the box and got us red Rose Formal nighshirts. You know, v neck to the knees?

And, I wore my blue windbreaker with a stylish gray zip up sweatshirt layered underneath. And on Bid day we all got sweatshirts to wear while we serenaded the fraternities - hot red and white sweatshirts to wear in SEPTEMBER. That's what we did- we went out to eat, changed into jeans and the sweatshirts and the picture man followed us around to sing our songs we just learned as the sororities showed off their pledges to all the boys.

The Bid List for the University of Kansas is out! Quota was 46. You can read more here:

http://www.news.ku.edu/2007/august/29/07soror.shtml

You had to wear the stylish gray zip up sweatshirt because it was so darned cold in Nebraska! :D I kept asking my daughter if she needed a sorority jacket--that's how you identified people on campus--all greeks in their navy blue windbreakers!

We also got a white long sleeved Kappa Kappa Gamma sweatshirt on bid day--I have so many Pictureman pictures (who ever brought their own camera?!) of us in shorts wearing those sweatshirts with the sleeves pushed up as far as possible! You have to admit, a sweatshirt was a lot more useful in Nebraska than a t-shirt! When we went on our visit in February, we ate at Harper and my daughter said "I can't believe everybody in this place is wearing sweatpants!"

You can tell my kids are Southerners, they wear flip flops and shorts about 10 months of the year!

For years, ChiO members rented a townhouse and called it the 'Chi Omega House', but it was out near 90th and Dodge, nowhere near campus. SigEps had a house for ages, near 30-something and Farnam. What a pit. It actually burned down, lol. Lambda Chi got a house, too. It was quite nice and they really took care of it.

There's been talk, ever since the dorms were first built, about GLO housing on campus, or at the very least, assigned dorm floors. Back in my day, we rushed in portable classrooms, until they built the parking garage. Then rush was moved to the student center. We had our meetings there, too. Each chapter had meetings on Monday night and we all had door hanger thingys to block the windows so noone would 'spy' on you during chapter. :p

Greek housing at UNO might be the next logical step. At Georgia State in downtown Atlanta, they opened new dorms this year and plan to open greek housing next year. They are trying to make it less of a commuter campus...and heaven knows, downtown Atlanta could use some life. Hope it works.

UNO is in a pretty part of Omaha, too. Greek houses would fit right in. We always played Brownell-Talbot when I was in HS, so it was our most exciting "Road Trip", driving around trolling by all the mansions in Happy Hollow.

Gorgeous, arent' they? That's always been the stumbling block with expansion at UNO, the prime residential real-estate in the surrounding blocks.

I would think that if they did GLO housing, it would be over in the old Ak-Sar-Ben area where the dorms are located.

Looks like Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha D Pi, Chi O, Tri Delt, DG, Gamma Phi, Theta, KD, Kappa, Pi Phi, and SK made quota or quota plus...

What school is this?

I'm assuming ISU?

Quota was 19 at ISU. Maybe Kansas or Kansas State?

I think Kansas, but I noticed some girls were duplicated on the link, so you can't just count names of the chapters.