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.