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Originally posted by vandy_violet
I was looking at the chapter list and I noticed that a lot of the chapters that went inactive did so in the '70's-'80's. Is there a specific reason for this trend, like a general decline in sororities at the time? Did sororities in general lose chapters during certain times?
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That's pretty interesting. I was reading in "Sisters" that at my first university there used to be a chapter (at Texas A&M - Kingsville which was formerly Texas A&I) that chartered in the late 50's and closed in the late 70's. Supposedly greek life on that campus used to be a huge deal, and there were chapters of a lot of "big" sororities there.
In the late 70's though, the school suffered from low enrollment, and that (for whatever reason
) made the school shut down greek life completely.
There have been a string of locals since then, and just recently (1-2 years ago) they are getting NPCs back on that campus. It's a small school, but really nice!