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I'm really not sure why Greek numbers at Minnesota are so low, but I get the feeling that they have never been as high as they have at nearby schools like Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. The aforementioned schools all tend to pull in lots of Chicago suburbanites who are more likely to go Greek, which Minnesota doesn't get. And those from the Twin Cities suburbs who might be more likely to go Greek, I've noticed, often head off to Iowa or Wisconsin instead of sticking around Minnesota.

Also, because the campus is in the middle of the cities and it isn't a real big party school -- there's just so many other things to do -- that it's possible that the Greek system wasn't needed that much for social opportunities the way it was at some other schools.

Edited to add: Also, I think they had lower rush numbers than usual this fall. The numbers on the website are from last spring pre-graduation, and as you can see Pi Phi had almost made it to total then, but they graduated a lot of seniors.