We do not have PIKES at my campus, however they were considered by our IFC expansion committee during our last round of expansion.
We sent out invitations to about 10 groups we were interestred in asking to campus. Of the 10 we asked, 4 were interested in expansion. They were KA's, Delta Sigma Phi, Pikes, and SAE's.
The delta Sigs were chosen because their expansion proposal rocked, and would really help with greek awarness on campus. We also really liked the Pike's, and considered changing our expansion plan just to include them, i.e., asking on Delta Sigs for this year, and then a year from now, allowing the Pikes to come on. Our lovely Greek Advisor shot that down, because that was not a part of the original expansion plan, even though we could handle two groups in two years, she felt it wasn't fair to change the rules in mid stream
(even though they are OUR rules), so we were only allowed to have one to expand, the Delta Sigs. If I wanted an overly complicated expansion policy, we'd have asked Panhelenic to be incharge of the process. (Forgive me ladies, but I have NEVER been able to understand most NPC policy.)
So no, we wanted Pikes, but are going to have to go through the WHOLE process ALL over again, and it was too exhaustive last year. We'll probably wait a few years. The cool thing is that they are still very interested in our campus, so I am sure they'll be here in a few years.
[This message has been edited by lifesaver (edited December 13, 2000).]