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Originally posted by 33girl
What what??
I looked up Theta Kappa Pi online and according to what I found, they have a Beta Chapter at the College of Charleston and a Gamma Chapter at Lewis U. Are they going to be associated with Phi Mu as well?? Plus what happened to the Theta Phi Alpha interest group?
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For the record, I am not a Phi Mu so I am not privy to the inner workings of their sorority so basically all that I'm telling is what's been floating around the greek community since the begining of the semester (take that as you will).
As of 9/21 all of the local service/social sororities at Penn State were no longer recognized by the university. NPC basically told all of the IFC fraternities that if they did THON, Homecoming, Greek Week, etc with these sororities that they would not be allowed to do weeklongs or have socials with any of the NPC sororites. The locals cried and complained about it and were obviously very upset with the situation. This happened just as Phi Mu was getting ready to restructure their chapter. Since TKP complained the most to panhellenic about becoming a national sorority (and apparently they had been interested in going national for quite some time), they met with Phi Mu nationals and the two sororities decided to come together as one. All of the officers of Phi Mu were stripped of their duties and the chapter is basically being treated as a colony. I have no idea about the other chapters of TKP.
As for the TPA interest group (Theta Alpha Pi), they may be the next to beg panhellenic for expansion, but they will probably have to merge with a NPC just like TKP did. There are still two other struggling chapters here, so it will be a while before this campus is open for expansion. Neither of them are as far below total as Phi Mu was (they had less than 20 sisters before the merger), but it's still an uphill battle for both.