Franklin and Marshall Alpha Phi Update
 

Alpha Phi's bid-day was yesterday to pick out the founding members. They did a great job and got about 35 new members. This is a good size for a new group at F&M.

http://photos-947.ll.facebook.com/ph...54560_3730.jpg

I am very excited for them! It seems like it's a good mix of sophomores/juniors/seniors. Yay for alpha phi! Hopefully, when they succeed it will lay the groundwork for my chapter to come back.

Congrats to Alpha Phi!!

What a great looking group of women! Best of luck to the new colony!

Congrats to Alpha Phi!

I am so excited! Congrats to my new sisters! :D

My brother said there's a lot of enthusiasm for a new chapter and that one was badly needed since Tri-Sigma left - Chi O is at a ridiculous size for a campus that small (I feel like he said somewhere in the 100+ range), and I don't know about Kappa Beta Gamma, but I think they were getting up there as well. Congratulations to the new members!

Yay!!!!

Looks like a bunch of great girls. How many other sororities are on campus and what is their typical chapter size? Will they wait until after initiation to do COB or will they continue now?

I don't know what total is, but I do know Chi-O is pretty big right now. They are actually not even taking a fall class, thankfully. I think 75-80 would be a good size for total at F&M...with about 4 chapters. There are about 1000 girls, so about 30% greek would be wonderful! Hopefully one day Sigma will come back and be the fourth.

how exciting!! congratulations to alpha phi and her newest colonists!

Am I correct - 2 NPC and 1 local? Does the local have any NPC aspirations?

Looks like the "local" is really a chapter of a small national sorority. Here is there website:
http://www.kappabetagamma.org/Basic%20Facts.htm

I know you'd be interested, SWTXBelle!

Is KBG the one that used to be NPC? Or wanted to be NPC?

Thanks for the picture! Yay for my new sisters!

It is a national sorority (several chapters) but obviously not NPC. Are they able to compete number-wise? And - do they participate fully in the Panhellenic Council? I'm just wondering because it could make a big difference in whether or not the campus would vote to open up for expansion (or perhaps the return of Tri-Sigma).

I believe they do (the website, though outdated, specifically states that it is the governing body for ALL sororities on campus), but I also know that their numbers are not comparable to Chi Omega. My brother heard a rumor they were interested in affiliating with Kappa Kappa Gamma but has heard nothing more since then.