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I asked the Greek advisor about colonization of other sororities, and he isn't very concerned about non-placement or happy placement of girls. He stated that they would not be able to get a sorority that would be willing to invest over a million dollars in a sorority house. I wrote a letter to Delta Zeta to see if this would be a problem for them Their representative told me no basically, and gave me Florida as an example. Then I wrote to the Panhellenic President, who said that two sororities had expressed interest in colonization, but that the Panhellenic Council did not know how to go about doing it, and the advisor was not assisting. I tried to let her know that it was up to the Panhellenic and not the advisor, as she originally thought. I sent her email to the NPC representative, but I haven't heard anything since.

The GLO's presently at ole miss are:

AOPi
Chi O
DDD
DG
KAT
KD
KKG
Pi Phi
Phi Mu

Total is at 150, unless it has been raised this year. All sororities were at total and upwards, several being over 200 members.
ZTA left in 1999 due to low numbers. The college bought their house.

The advisor uses statistics to show that they place over 80% of the girls, but a lot of the pledge classes disappear over the first year somehow. I don't know if they don't join or leave. (Total was around 68 last year, with some of the sororities getting up to 73 PNM's. The returning sophomores according to two of the websites was around 45. What happened to the other 28 pledges? It is possible that they did not make grades, I guess.)

They increased total last year from 125 to 150, rather than try to get more sororities on campus.

One of my friends who is a male and a big ole miss alum told me the other day that if you took all the girls that weren't in sororities and made a sorority with them, you would have the best sorority on campus.