[MikeGT98]

curlyagd is correct on all her points. For the curious, some background information on NPC expansion efforts at Georgia Tech:

When this issue last came up, it was in (I believe) the fall of 2000 (I could be wrong about that, it's been a while.)

XYZ sorority closed down their chapter at another local school that semester, and began talks with Panhellenic about expansion to the Tech campus. It wasn't explicitly said at the time, but a lot of people felt (Tech's former Greek Advisor included) that this was simply a knee-jerk reaction by the sorority: basically, that they wanted to maintain an Atlanta presence as a jumping-off point to recolonize the recently closed chapter nearby. That's most likely heresey (so please take it with a large grain of salt), but the timing was definitely odd when the group approached the school. At the time, there was no local sorority formed; Tech had simply hosted a number of open formums where girls could come voice their opinions about bringing a new sorority to campus, and had decent turnouts. Surveys from unaffiliated girls also showed support for expansion.

Regardless of the group's intentions or the limited support from campus at the time, I attended the Panhellenic meeting where they voted on extending an invitation to this particular GLO to come to campus and recruit. It unanimously failed, and Panhellenic basically laid down an informal ground rule that expansion shouldn't take place until all houses on campus made quota three years in a row. I highly doubt this is in writing anywhere, but the general feeling is that our campus is such a hostile environment to a new sorority, that this kind of attitude and stringent regulation is warranted to see if the campus truly needs another sorority.

Hope that sheds a little more light on the situation for all who are curious.

BTW, I am indeed a Tech student.. if anyone has questions about the Chi Phi situation that was also recently posted about here (regarding Chi Phi and Tech reaching an agreement about their suspension), please feel free to PM me. I am a former IFC Judicial Board member (but did not hear the case), but have read the case file in detail, so I am more familiar with the case than just what our school newspaper prints.