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According to Wikipedia, AU has about 8500 undergraduates and is about 51 percent white. Most importantly, it is a top five feeder school to the U.S. Foreign Service, Congressional staff, and other governmental agencies.
It also has a substantial number of undergraduates already working for various government agencies in some capacity or are involved in some type of work/study with a federal agency. So I would expect recruiting for fraternities to be extremely difficult. I would caution us from drawing too many assumptions regarding the motives or reasons behind the AU undergraduates' decision to close their chapter.
For what it's worth, when I was with the government, I knew dozens of AU and George Mason graduates and not one was a member of a fraternity or sorority.
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