Kirk Chewning, the Fraternity's Expansion Commissioner, informed me that there was an interest group at UCSB several months ago, but that it collpased.
If anyone knows of a renewed attempt to return Epsilon-Theta chapter to UCSB, I'd sure like to hear about it.
Equally unfortunately, the Fraternity does not seem to be doing much of anything about, or at least making any progress towards, returning to UCLA.
With only nine active chapters (at Sac State, UC Davis, UC Berkeley, Stanford, San Jose State, Cal Poly SLO, USC, Long Beach State, and UC Irvine) and two colonies (Fresno State, which has been recolonized seemingly forever and apparently can't seem to build up sufficient strength numbers to meet SEC rechartering requirements and is probably doomed to close altogether; and San Diego State, which I had expected to have rechartered before the end of the school year, but hopefully will recharter soon) in all of California, KappaSigma remains very weakly represented in the Golden State. A return of inactive chapters at UCSB, UCLA, Cal State Fullerton, and Occidental College, all in Southern California, and expansion to at least one new Southern California school (Pepperdine, Cal State Northridge, Cal Poly Pomona, Loyola Marymount, Chapman, UC Riverside, UC San Diego ... there's certainly lots of schools whre we are presently unrepresented) and one new Northern California school - Chico State, which has a strong Greek system at which we are conspicuously absent, and the Univeristy of the Pacific, a really fine school with a slowly expanding Greek system - would be the most obvious choices. But given the second-rate schools at which the Fraternity presently has so many colonies (CW Post, Suffolk, Armstrong Atlantic, Nova Southeastern, SW Oklahoma, York College, etc., none of which enhance the Fraternity's prestige at all), our next California expasnion will probably be at some similar second-tier school like Cal State Hayward, Cal State San Bernadino, or Cal State Bakersfield. I suppose that any expansion in California would be welcome. But some schools obviously would be more preferable than others.
Anyway, a return to UCSB and/or UCLA certainly WOULD be GREAT. But, unfortunately, nothing seems to be happening for us at either school at present.
