Fraternity Expansion at Ball State

[neonsparkles]

So in February my campus (Ball State) is having four fraternities present on the campus: Pi Kappa Phi, Phi Kappa Psi, Pi Kappa Alpha, and Delta Sigma Phi

If you know anything about our campus you know the fraternity system (IFC) has been dwindling. We still have Delta Tau Delta, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Chi, Theta Chi, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Sigma Kappa, and Zeta Beta Tau.

I am a senior now, and in the four years I have been here we lost Alpha Tau Omega, Beta Theta Pi, Delta Chi, and Lambda Chi Alpha. Only about 6% of our school is greek yet some of the houses have a very small amount of people in them. Others of course are thriving and well, but I really think reputations and alumni support have made a difference with those.

Ball State isn't a commuter school and I know the Greek system used to be huge. It is still the best way to get involved on campus and many of our student campus leaders are Greek. I hope that maybe adding more fraternities will give other guys new options and expand the fraternities here.

I have never been through the experience of new groups coming to campus so this should be exciting (as far as rumors go, the campus apperently wants to add up to 4 fraternities in the next few years). So, I will try to keep you all updated.