lol, not anymore I spent 4 years as a collegiate spackling, wallpapering and painting - along with decorating, as long as it isn't falling down, ripped or broken - I'm content to leave it with them!!!

Two more weeks until formal recruitment!!!!!

Being the dinosaur that I am, I remember when we actually had a decorator (oh, did we have fun with him!) and our own cleaning lady (Ardma). We would always fuss about how we would decorate the suite, if we had the chance. But that was when there was a TON of money in our Housing Corporation (long story). We didn't know how good we had it.

Now, I just wish I/we had the money to do it up right again!

Cheyenne or Dani, are all 11 NPC sororities going to participate in rush or is that one nameless sorority still not allowed?

I have no clue. i'm pretty out of the gossip loop!

Okay I'm a bit confused someone pm me with the name of the nameless sorority and I can snoop some.

We had a cleaning person for out bathrooms for a while - but then we got a new one and she stole stuff from people so housing doesn't even do that!

Cheyenne

Yeah, I'm curious, too - I thought that the one thing Panhel couldn't do was keep a chapter from rushing.

Cheyenne, our Housing Corp. paid for Ardma, not Pitt. She did our whole Suite (except our rooms, of course), and was a real gem!

I've been meaning to ask, is anyone living in the Theta house?

OOOHhhhh, I see thanks Killarney! That was my guess but I just wanted to confirm!

Honeychile-I think it is their international organization - not panhel, although I would think that they wouldn't do that because it would hurt their "reputation". It serves them right though! They've been so obvious about it and they just got in trouble for it about 3-4 years ago!!

I'll see what kind of info I can find out. As far as housing goes-well I had my own bathroom my senior year but I wouldnt want to share now that there isn't anyone cleaning it....eeew.

ETA: Honeychile, the last I *heard* Kappa was looking into buying it. I think they have interntional students leasing it from Theta currently. It's kind of sad-everyone was talking about raising ceiling last semester at bid matching but I'd much rather see a new chapter.

I know what you mean about a new chapter - ever since I saw those old Pitt yearbooks with Phi Mu and ZTA in them, I've been thinking, "I wonder..."

How strong are most of the current chapters? Are most somewhat near Total (or will be after Recruitment?)? I'd like to make sure that there's a strongPanhellenic system first. My memory goes back too far - it just seems that there's always one very weak chapter that gets killed off by a new colony. Has there ever been more than 11 sororities at Pitt in the last, oh, 30 years?

I think that everyone is pretty close to total with the exception of 3-one of which I know will be very close by the end of the semester, maybe the second one as well. I don't know about the 3rd one-they seem to be content at where they are but I could be misinterpreting their status.

Pitt will not expand anytime soon, you need to have over 50% of the chapters at total for over 2 semesters to expand, and that has not happend in a long time.

There's over 50% of the chapters at or over total, and have been for a little while.
DZ, XO, SSS, KD, DDD, and KKG
And I don't have a green book (fire1977, you may know this better than me) but I'm pretty sure there's no hard and fast rule as to 50% for 2 semesters, etc. It's a vote of the panhel.
Several of the other 5 groups on campus have been stepping up their efforts to COB. COBbing has become more and more popular, and you get better girls. Not enough girls go through rush, and a lot of chapters are going to them and pulling them in through COB.
Also, opening up a system like ours may very likely renew an interest in greek life, as most of the chapters already have an established niche/reputation on campus.

Outside of the rush talk------ next Tuesday is my birthday. However, I have class until 6pm that day and have an 8AM Wed. So instead, a bunch of people are going out this Friday night, probably somewhere in the strip, I don't have the details together just yet. But any of you fellow yinzers are more than welcome to come!!!! :D

To quote the green book:

Just as a random tangent-besides NPC Unanimous Agreements-the green book is meant to be flexible, it is not the "handbook" it's the manual of information. I suggest everyone that is in an NPC sorority to read it as you will find out that it is a generic formula meant to be flexible to work on different campuses.

as of the spring there were 7 chapters at total, and 4 that range anywhere from being 15 members short to 40 members short. It depends on retention and if anyone did a second NM class after numbers were released for the spring. I think every one but 1(definitely) or 2 will be close to ceiling in the spring.

Dani-don't know what I'm doing on Friday yet, keep us posted!!

Another September person! :) My birthday is September 13th!

But I'm on call this weekend - again! - so I'm iffy at best. I will, however, gladly raise a glass to your birthday!

That's my grandpa's birthday! :)