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I am willing to be an alumni advisor for a colony at UC Riverside, but it looks like it would be a daunting task. There are only about 300 students in 10 fraternities out of a total enrollment of almost 20,000 and growing. There is no alumni chapter in the Inland Empire, although there are in LA and San Diego Counties. Most or all of the existing fraternities at Riverside don't have houses which reduces the incentive to join. The largest fraternity there numbers only 50 men (as it happens, it is a chapter of the nation's second largest fraternity), the minimum required by our National for chartering. The only way I see a Kappa Sig chapter succeeding is strong alumni support from a to-be-created Inland Empire alumni chapter, and a housing corporation. The strongest sorority on campus seems to be the Pi Phis. As it happens they have a house and a strong alumni chapter. My view is that Kappa Sig has the strength to put a chapter anywhere it wants to given the resolve to do so, but National can't do it alone, it's a question of the resolve of the brothers who live in the area. How badly do alumni want a meeting place. I see UC Riverside as a part of a strong presence in Southern California because it's big and geting bigger, and some students transfer to the other college campuses in SoCal from there, and it is well located geographically to support colonization efforts throughout SoCal, there is no place too far from there. They have an undergrad business major there which always seems to be a good source for members.
Is there any interest and support for the idea of starting a chapter out there and becoming the 11th fraternity on the campus and the largest?
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