[FuzzieAlum]

I don't think expanding to junior colleges is much of an issue, since the NPC at least (I'm not sure for the fraternities) forbids NPC orgs to have chapters there.

I was asking partially because if you look at different sororities, more so than fraternities I think, you will see a real difference in where they are located. Sometimes it's geographical (Phi Sig in the NE, Phi Mu in the South), but other times it is prestige - and I'm not the person who ranks schools. If you don't like rankings, complain to US News and World Report or the parents who push their kids to Harvard - or the sororities who won't colonize certain places! While I do believe you can get a better education with smaller classes, brighter classmates, sharper professors who love to teach, and a rich extracurricular experience, any accredited school offers a quality education, and brains are not the only requirement for sorority membership.

Lately most Greek expansion has been to either small private institutions or to state schools that are primarily commuter. These usually are schools that didn't have much of a Greek system in the past. And I'm noticing the same few sororities colonizing at these institutions - D Phi E, A Xi D, Theta Phi Alpha are a few that come to mind (I'm not saying they are the only ones). Given that these are not the biggest or richest nationals, my guess is that some other nationals are choosing not to colonize at these schools. I am wondering - will the ones who didn't colonize be sorry later, or will they feel happy with their choice down the road?

I think talk of elitisim is beside the point - GLOs are supposed to be the elite. You're supposed to choose the best men and women on campus, right? So the question is, should that be extended to only choosing the best campuses as well?

My personal feeling is no, up to a point. There are a FEW schools that in my experience do such a poor job of education I do not want AXD to be represented there. But that is a very small segment of schools - certainly not anything just below Harvard or the top 10 percent! I would not rule out, for example, most small commuter colleges. I'm thinking instead that maybe the bottom 5% I wouldn't colonize at.