Excerpt: The past two years, the number of women who signed up to rush was around 60. This year, 157 women had indicated their desire to rush as of Tuesday afternoon.
Best wishes to the chapters and the potential new members!
Although the numbers are nothing like those at SEC schools, it's encouraging to see signs of more interest.
WoooHooo! This is good news for all Illinois Greeks. I'm glad to see this happening at a campus with a "smaller" Greek population. I feel that sometimes in Illinois the only campuses we ever hear about in terms of Greek life are the University of Illinois/Champaign and Northwestern.
Illinois has Greek systems at quite a few of the smaller universities as well as at many small colleges. Thanks for the info.
I am blown away at what seems like an increase in interest Greek Life just about everywhere, even in these hard economic times. It says a lot to what our Greek system has to offer