[KSUViolet06]

Well my campus had a local (Phi Gamma Pi). They were about 15 or so years old when they closed this past spring. They were at their peak around the early 90's, they had about 40-50 sisters,a house and everything. It's my understanding that there were some disagreements and personal issues amongst the sisters, and many of them dropped. Their numbers went down and they lost their house around 1999 -2000. Their numbers steadily declined and more sisters left. By the time I came to Kent in 2002, they were down to about 5 sisters. They participated in formal rush that fall and got 0 new members (quota was about 25).

They didn't get a whole lot of respect on campus and were pretty much invisible which was kinda sad. If you mentioned Phi Gam to another greek, they'd pretty much be like, "what?".

I actually knew one of the sisters, she tried really hard to get their #'s up and get their respect, but it just didn't happen.

I do think it's possible for locals to be respected, though. If they respect other greeks, show up to events and participate in things. My school just isn't a good place for locals, I guess.