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Originally Posted by arvid1978
I wouldn't call the capital of the 5th most populous state with core population of 110k and a metro area of over 180k "literally in a cornfield" by any stretch. The fact that it's not a more urban area has almost nothing to do with the lack of NPHC greeks on campus, since most other public campuses in Illinois actually are in the middle of cornfield (population areas of 20k - 40k), yet have active NPHC chapters. I'm very confident that the incredibly unique culture of the campus compared to the other major 4-year public institutions that has kept most GLOs (NPHC or not) from expanding to the school. I'm not sure if any of them have even tried yet; I haven't seen or heard of anybody else trying to extend to the campus, but that doesn't mean they're not 
The extension effort has been a Petitioning Group for over three years now, and took quite a while to get to that point as well. As I recall, and I'm sure some other R6 staffers will correct me on this, it was a cold start extension effort. I also recall that since APO approached the administration first we were going to be the standard by which they evaluated other GLOs coming to campus, but that may have been the sponsor's opinion at the time.
I do know the campus is researching and discussing how social greek life would be integrated into the campus community: http://www.uis.edu/journal/archives/...opinion.html#3
(Disclosure: I work for the University of Illinois, attended UIUC and have taken classes at UIS) |
Springfield is indeed nice in size, but the campus is literally amidst the cornfields, I wasn't kidding!
I was just hypothesizing, I meant demographics more in the sense of age than anything else. City-wide chapters have probably served the population well, at least to this point. I have no idea if there is any social greek expansion but I haven't heard of it outside a less than intelligent group of girls on facebook calling themselves Sigmas. They stopped.
(I attend UIS atm for grad school
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