I've been sick the past week, so I've been reading a book on the history of my alma mater. It's been an easy read and very enlightening. I always knew that there had been national sororities on campus at one time, but I never knew the specifics of it all.
Well, as it turns out, there were actually 4 sororities that were on campus at the turn of the century until 1919 (Kappa Delta, Zeta Tau Alpha, Alpha Delta Pi and Delta Delta Delta). It seems as though they were closed based on the opinion of the adminstration, which replaced them with student government . I know what you are thinking and I don't get the logical connection there, either.
So, I've been doing some research tonight and have come up with a question: why is it that a lot of the older women's colleges do not have national sororities? They all started out with chapters, but one-by-one closed them down. Am I missing something? Judson College, Wesleyan College, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Salem College and Hollins University all have had national sororities at one time or another, but, to my knowledge, now have none.
Any insight into this would be most appeciated.
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