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Originally posted by PKTKKG
The University of South Carolina voted to expand this past spring and only two groups, Alpha Xi Delta and Gamma Phi Beta, submitted packages. However, I do think the fact that all of the sororities opened houses this fall had a lot to do with the low response.
One thing that seemed really odd to me was that Pi Beta Phi did not submit a package. They were on this campus from 1931 - 1985, and their current national president is from this chapter that is now closed. I would have thought they would have jumped at the chance to come back. Of course, we have also had two groups fold in the past two years (Theta in 2001 and DG in 2003) and I think that may have had an impact.
I was really surprised that more groups did not express interest.
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We had several new colonizations out West we were working on. If Pi Phi can't commit a resident consultant for a year, I don't think they present. I also think the house costs would have been pretty high.... someday!!
Another thing no one mentioned that to me seems really obvious is legacies. I guess that's a bigger deal in the South. I've noticed that 80% of the PNMs going through rush at my school who are not legacies to the groups on campus (Pi Phi, Chi-O, KD, Theta, Kappa) are legacies to either Tri-Delt or Phi Mu. Without a doubt if we tried to colonize it would be one of those, IMHO. Of course we're not doing that--but it's ridiculous the amount of talk that goes on about Tri-Delt on campus. There are so many legacies of that group on campus, as well as Phi Mu, and to a smaller extent ADPi and ZTA. I've had so many people say to me "My mom is XYZ international officer of ABC and she wants to bring ABC here etc etc etc".