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Closed chapter
My chapter closed in 2000, thirteen years after I graduated , closure was due to steadily declining numbers on a very tough campus -UT-Austin.When I pledged we had 85 members, by 2000 we had 12. The decline did not happen in a strait line, we went up and down, going from a post vietnam peak of 95 members in 1982 to 40 in 1986 back up to 65 by 1992 and then a long slow slide in the 1990s. It hurts as my chapter had had a presence on UT since 1947. We were never the top, the old southern fraternities always were the biggest KA, SAE etc. but we were good in athletics had a big house and had alot of fun.
DU tried to recolonize in 2001 but pulled out due to risk management problems with the colony, don't know if a revival is in the works.
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