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.