Two Established Chapters in One City...

[TCV]

I thought it was interesting how a glo has established two chapters in one city. For example, Alpha Sigma Alpha has two established chapters in San Antonio, TX.; Delta Upsilon in UT-San Antonio and Zeta Sigma in University of The Incarnate Word (although I don't know how far apart their establishments were).
That is the only glo I can think of. Do other glo's have a "twin" chapter in the same city? Is this common, if so why would a glo do that if it has already established their presence. I wonder if this would be double work for the Alumnae chapter supporting two collegiate chapters at once.
Any response on this would be insightful

~TCV

[emb021]

Originally posted by TCV
I thought it was interesting how a glo has established two chapters in one city. For example, Alpha Sigma Alpha has two established chapters in San Antonio, TX.; Delta Upsilon in UT-San Antonio and Zeta Sigma in University of The Incarnate Word (although I don't know how far apart their establishments were).
That is the only glo I can think of. Do other glo's have a "twin" chapter in the same city? Is this common, if so why would a glo do that if it has already established their presence. I wonder if this would be double work for the Alumnae chapter supporting two collegiate chapters at once.
Any response on this would be insightful

~TCV

Huh?

APO has several chapters in the same city. This is because we charter chapters to schools and only members of that school can join that chapter. Having multiple chapters in a city is not a drain on alumni associations. Its not the purpose of AA to support chapters, so its not work for them while those chapters are up and running. It is work to get them started.

Some examples:

Tallahassee, FL has chapters at both Florida State and Florida A&M.

Atlanta, GA has chapters at Univ Ga, Oglethrope, Georgia Tech, Clark-Atlantic, and Emory.

THere may be other examples, but that's what I'm familar with in my area of the country.

[Peaches-n-Cream]

DPhiE has chapters at Queens College, St.John's University, and NYU which are all in NYC. Queens and St. John's are just a few minutes away from each other.

[TCV]

emb021-I was aiming the question to NPC glos.
~TCV

[KillarneyRose]

I know that my sorority, Delta Zeta, has a chapter at the University of Pittsburgh (my chapter! woo hoo!) and one at Duquesne University as well. And I just remembered one at Robert Morris College. So that is three chapters within I would guess 20 miles. We seem to be really well represented in Pennsylvania for some reason.

Also, Tri Delta and Kappa Kappa Gamma both have a chapter at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie-Mellon University and the two schools are within walking distance of one another.

[PhiPsiRuss]

We have 2 chapters in Los Angeles, at UCLA (chartered in 1931) and USC (chartered in 1927), and they are supported by their respective house corporations. It creates less work for the local alumni association because twice as many local alumni are being produced.

More recently, Philadelphia has grown to have 3 Phi Psi chapters; Penn (1877.) USP (1997.) and Drexel (2002.) The chapters are beginning to work with each other, and this simply creates a more dynamic fraternity presence.

We also have 2 chapters in Chicago, DePaul (1993) and UIC (2003), as well as a chapter outside the city limits at Northwestern (1864.)

This is not unique to Phi Psi, and the reason why you would want more than one chapter in a city is because there may be more than one quality institution in one city.

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by TCV
I was aiming the question to NPC glos.

You should have specified that.

[AGDLynn]

Atlanta, GA has chapters at Univ Ga, Oglethrope, Georgia Tech, Clark-Atlantic, and Emory.


Boy, guess I missed the big news about UGA moving from Athens to Atlanta! and it's Clark-Atlanta

[TCV]

Originally posted by russellwarshay
You should have specified that.

My apologies for not specifying...

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by TCV
My apologies for not specifying...

apologies accepted

[emb021]

Originally posted by AGDLynn
Atlanta, GA has chapters at Univ Ga, Oglethrope, Georgia Tech, Clark-Atlantic, and Emory.


Boy, guess I missed the big news about UGA moving from Athens to Atlanta! and it's Clark-Atlanta

My bad. Foolishly assumed UGA in Atlanta. C-A a typo.

[emb021]

Originally posted by TCV
emb021-I was aiming the question to NPC glos.
~TCV

And why should that make a difference? I would think that if the schools were large enough to support those chapters, fine. Plus having chapters close to one another they can do inter-chapter activities and support one another.

[queequek]

We have four active Charges in Boston Metropolitan Area:

Tufts University (Kappa Charge, 1856) in Medford, MA
MIT (Theta Deuteron Charge, 1890) in Cambridge, MA
Northeastern University (Delta Triton Charge, 1990) in Boston, MA
Merrimack College (Chi Triton Charge, 1999) in North Andover, MA

If we re-activate our inactive Charges, it would be cool as hell!

Harvard University (Iota Charge) in Cambridge, MA
Boston University (Lambda Charge) in Boston, MA

[SmartBlondeGPhB]

Originally posted by russellwarshay
This is not unique to Phi Psi, and the reason why you would want more than one chapter in a city is because there may be more than one quality institurtion in one city.

That would be exactly the reason. Off the top of my head, I know we have chapters at USC and UCLA as well and we have many alumnae chapters in the "greater" LA area to support everyone. I'm not going to try to think of other cities because I know I'll get something wrong, but I'm sure there are others for us.

Collegiate chapters are school specific so if there are two schools in the same city, and we think we could succeed at both, we'll try to have chapters at both.

And as was said, even though alumna chapters "should" support the local collegiate chapter, it isn't the number one reason for having an alumnae chapter in the area. Some alumnae chapters don't even have a collegiate chapter close enough for them to support.

[Glitterkitty]

..there are Phi Mu chapters at Georgia State University and Georgia Tech-literally down the street from one another and they do not do anything together.

There is also Alpha Xi Delta, and ZTA at both of those schools. To my knowledge, they do not associate much.

Alpha Delta Pi has a chapter at GATech and Emory-again, not sure if they associate much or not.
There are also Sigma Nu, Pi Kappa Phi and TKE chapters at Ga TEch, Southern polyTech, and Georgia State. I don't know if they do stuff together or not.

So Atlanta has many "twins"!

edited b/c I wanted my facts straight.