I'm a member of Alpha Gamma Delta at Georgia Tech, and was on Executive Council before this vote took place in panhellenic, so I am pretty aware of the process that was taken on campus before the vote to look into expansion took place. Coyote (as they call themselves) is already an associate member of panhellenic council. Another non panhellenic sorority on our council is Lambda Alpha Theta. As someone else mentioned there is another local on campus, I believe called Lambda Nu, but I might be mistaken about that. They are not recognized by our panhellenic though. From talking to friends in other sororities, I know that each sorority was very careful in making their own individual decision about what to do about htis vote for extension. I know my sorority sought council from international, and discussed and voted on it during chapter. The main reasons I have heard around campus for why the vote didn't pass were 2 fold. First, as was said earlier, only 29% of our campus is female. Along with that, rush numbers have been declining the past several years. In addition to that, I know in the past four years, at least 1 house has failed to make quota during formal recruitment. It hasn't been the same house all four years, so it's not just the problem of a weak house, it's just a problem of not enough girls finishing rush. Until all the houses can make quota consistently, I personally do not see another national chapter coming onto campus. I've also posted the website of an article from our college newspaper from last semester. It was written after Coyote voted in their chapter whether to seek national affiliation or not. As you can see, their chapter was somewhat divided on that. If you guys have any other questions about this situation, or Coyote, fell free to pm me.
Loyally,
Kathleen
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