Sigma Delta Tau colonization at FSU
 

I attended the information sessions last night at FSU for the SDT colonization. The response from the campus was overwhelming! About 275 women preregistered for the info sessions and even more just came to the sessions last night. In fact, they had to run multiple sessions in order to speak with everyone. Because of the number of women, they are shifting their base of operations over to the Union.

There were so many different kinds of women there - all ages, racial backgrounds, sizes, religions. It was great to see. The national officers I spoke with are so excited to be back at FSU and I met the Chapter Consultant that will be living here for the next year to assist the new chapter.

The current plan is to install the chapter by the end of October via an intensive 7 week colony program. They are securing housing and the chapter will be housed in time for Formal Recruitment 2005.

If any PNMs were at the last info session, I'm the Zeta that was introduced near the end of the evening. :D

I'm going out of town until Monday, so I'll report back any news I hear at that time.

Interviews are going on today and tomorrow. Tonight is their philanthropy event and tomorrow night is Pref. Bid pickup with be Sunday morning with bid day events and pinning that afternoon.

What great news for FSU and Sigma Delta Tau!

It's great to hear that they had such a good turn out!

That's great! :)

How many women are they looking for?

Wonderful!!!!

I love colonizations!! Good luck to Sigma Delta Tau and all the girls involved!

I hope some of the GCers on here that were thinking about going went to the meeting :)

That's really great to hear. I hope that they do really well. Then lets hope that FSU's PanHel lets another GLO back in soon.

what a great way to start! good luck to all of the women going through the process!

Congratulations to FSU and SDT!

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congrats to all involved.
expansion is a marvelous thing.

Oh! I'm so excited for the women going through the process and for SDT! I remember going through the colonization rush so well - it was awesome - but still scary! Good luck to all involved!!!

Today is bid day! I hope our GCer decided to join! Either way-- congrats to all!

She did. :) There's a thread in the SDT forum.

:confused: i do not think that it is the same girl

I don't think it is either...she could have changed her name from Nolegirl17 to GONOLES-- but who knows! Congrats to GONOLES though!

Yes, I was thinking of GONOLES. "Our GCer" could have meant either of them... anyway, congrats to her and all the new colony members. :)

There were a couple GC's with 'nole' in their username that were considering SDT. They were looking to fill total to 150, however they are absorbing most, if not all, the women from the local interest group. I believe that means they will using this colonization to fill about 100 places.

I got back from my trip early, due to the weather, but haven't heard how the rest of the colonization went. Once I do hear, I'll post!!

Nope, not the same person. Unfortunately I was not able to participate in SDT this weekend... my parents wanted me to come home for Labor Day Weekend because of the hurricane. I'm glad that it was such a great success and sorry I was not able to be there to be a part of it. I stopped and talked with the girls working at the SDT table in the union several times and I know that they were very excited about it. Like I said, I am glad to hear it had a great turnout, they seem like a wonderful organization and definitely deserve it. :)

Because there will probably graduating seniors this winter, there is a good chance that they will take a small spring New Member class. Something to look into come January!!

Thank you PenguinTrax for helping out and keeping everyone so informed! I have to say your posts offored a whole lot of inside information before I was even pinned on sunday!

go gonoles...enjoy the ride.
nolegirl 17, don't give it up just yet.
:)

Found out that the chapter is currently at 130 and total on campus is 150 so they are (probably) looking to add a small new member class in the spring.

WOW! That is great! Congratulations to SDT and FSU!

That is amazing! Congratulations to the new SDT colony as well as the Greek life at FSU! :)