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Originally Posted by 33girl
Doesn't Nebraska have a lot of townies enrolled and active in the Greek system? (more than the average) Is this why they do things that way?
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I believe a good number of “townies” do enroll at Nebraska. However, I am not sure what the numbers are for the Greek system. I would guess there may be a larger percentage or number who do pledge. Greek Life is pretty popular at UNL.
As to why the sororities do things the way they do, UNL has an old Greek System. (Lots of single letter chapters) So my guess is that once sorority housing developed at UNL, local (Lincoln) members did not live in from the get go. As such, they did not count toward the bed quota and over the years, this tradition (of not counting toward bed quota) continued.
My guess is that the idea of “additions” (other than Lincoln women not counting toward bed quota) came later on as the number of PNMs grew and a significant number of women did not receive bids. Pure speculation on my part is that most of these women would have come from out of town since Lincoln women did not count toward the bed quotas. I suspect that UNL wanted to be sure that “all Nebraskans” had the same opportunity to join etc. Thus the “additions”.