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Originally Posted by DSTRen13
In my observation:
If you have a school that is becoming a more traditional campus versus a commuter school, or just converted from a 2-year, or whatever the situation may be that opens it up to Greek life, you often have the D9 groups coming on first versus NPC/IFC. There's more desire to bring particular BGLOs onto campus within the student body than for any particular other group, so it often takes more time to develop those interest groups.
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that's interesting. when a college goes from commuter to residential (or non-traditional/2 year to traditional/4 year, or whichever you see it in your head), the makeup of the student body changes. NYU was a heavy commuter school (with no surprise as its in the middle of the city) up until the 90s - i believe it was 65/35 commuter/residential. I'm not sure what came first, the surge in property to house students or student applications, but one certaintly feeds the other. so i'd say over the last 15-20 years, NYU's population went from heavily commuter/students from the boroughs (especially as they had a campus in the Bronx) to students from everyfreakingwhere and from lots of money. surely that changed the student body, racially and economically.
i would even stretch to say this is happening at St. Johns, as they have recently (past 6-8 years) become a heavily residential campus.
my point, back to greek life, is that i got the impression that greek life at NYU lived a great life back when it was a commuter school - they even had their own building (i dont know if it was for housing, or for recreation). then they got downsized to a tower of a dorm, and now to a couple of penthouses in a dorm. chapters that once were there are kaput now. on the NPHC side, i was told that while there werent NYU-only NPHC chapters, the school was on a few charters and it was more likely for black students to pursue an org then than now.
of course that could be reflective of the overall pattern of going greek over the years. as far as st john's goes, well im not a student there, but their greek life seems to be doing great (in terms of what greek life looks like in these parts anyway).
to bring this back on-topic, i wouldve guess that as a campus moved more towards traditional (and with that, more housing/campus community) that NPC/IFC would jump on that quicker than NPHC, if we as a council would even be affected by that.