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Originally Posted by stufield
Thanks for the update on your colony. We are very pleased that your petition for a charter has been accepted, and that your chapter installation date has been set. Another active chapter in Ohio, where Kappa Sigma is seriously underrepresented with only four active chapters whereas most of the other major fraternities have well over ten, is most welcome.
Have you been advised yet what your Greek letter chapter designation is going to be? I would think it will be Pi-Pi or Pi-Rho, as Pi-Omicron has been assigned to the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, the next colony to be chartered; I would assume that your colony is to be the next one, or the second next one to receive its charter after UCCS.
What can you advise us about the fraternity system at Akron at this time? What other fraternities presently have chapters there? Which of them are strong, which, if any, are struggling? How does your approximately 40 members compare to the other fraternities? Have you developed a stronger rivalry with any particular fraternity compared to all the others?
What can you advise about the Epsilon-Rho colony? How is it doing?
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Yesterday I found out that we will be the Pi-Rho Chapter.
Basically the fraternity system at Akron is very weak, there are 12 chapters. Right now the average chapter size is about 30, some as low as 12 members. The University has about 26,000 students, but with it being a high commuter school it only has 3% of the students in Greek Life.
We have several rivalries on campus, due to a couple members who have pledged other fraternities but quit before initiation. Also, some of the chapters on campus are worried that we are hurting recruitment for the Greek System, which we know is not true at all.
As for Epsilon-Rho, they are a very strong colony, but they really need to work on recruitment. We are trying to get them ready to come out strong next fall because this spring they did not come out strong at all.