You guys are small, but hopefully really strong. I always find it interesting to find out about Greek life on other campuses.
We at Nebraska (which one of the other Betas on this board has said is one of the best greek chapters he's ever seen) are 114 years old, getting our start in 1888. We were restructured in the Mid 90's b/c our house was really trashed and we had dropped from our ideals and our previous reputation. We've definetly come back strong as evidenced by the accomplishments we had in the past semester. Right now our house has 82 actives and my one pledge brother who didn't make grades. Our chapter house, which you can take a
virtual tourof, has a capacity of 60. My pledge class has 24 guys. We won Homecoming Lawn Display competition, as well as Overall Homecoming, and also got second in Kappa Kappa Gamma's "kappa Kickoff soccer tournament", first in Alpha Xi Delta's Kareoke (sp?) Kraze, and first in Delta Gamma's Anchor splash. Our house also won Grades among the Fraternities this past semster with a house GPA of 3.403
There are a couple of articles that have been posted here on Greek chat about my house. One is about our Housemom and the other about our mentoring program with an elementary school. I think both are in the Beta forum under the thread "Some positive Beta Exposure".
Anyway, keep up the good work at ZH, and if you come to convention perhaps we could meet...
-Kai-
Geoff
AT 2063