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Originally posted by 33girl
This decision doesn't make sense to me.
Having a chapter at an Ivy League school is such a feather in any sorority's cap, unless there is a risk management issue or they are WAY under total (like having 10 when everyone else has 150) closing it seems like it would do more harm than good. If they don't have to worry about money to maintain a large house and they have enough women to run the chapter, why close?
If it's a question of being unrecognized by the school, they should have withdrawn their charter long ago. I hope that the women decide to fight this decision.
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I know a few women who graduated from the Princeton chapter and it is solely a numbers issue. The chapter has been consistently under for many years- I'm talking an alum who graduated in either 99-00 who said they had numbers issues. Princeton was charterd in 1996. So basically for the entire time the chapter was on campus, there were number problems. I have no idea what total is on the campus, but when I went up to help with formal one year with the addition of me and a significant number of members of the Villanova chapter, we still didn't have the same amount of women the other sororities did.
I know EO was trying to help in more than one way. The Princeton chapter had lots of help. According to the article, they weren't making min. standards for acrediation, and that means the charter gets revoked.
It does make me sad though
My alum chapter now supports one less group.