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More colony and chapter losses:
As stated in my February 18th posting, the colony at Bellarmine University was recently closed.
Also, the SEC has also recently closed Gamma-Kappa Chapter at the University of Oklahoma for unspecified "rules violations". Gamma-Kappa had been in continuous existence since receiving its charter in June, 1906, and is the chapter of former Heisman Trophy winner Steve Owens.
In its customary 'head in the sand', 'we never post anything negative', 'even though you are fraternity members we don't think you have the right to know' modus operandi, IMH has not announced the Oklahoma closure or explained what rules were violated. Gamma-Kappa has just quietly been removed from the lists of active chapters and colonies on the Fraternity Website, as were Epsilon-Nu at Southern Mississippi and Epsilon-Theta at UCSB earlier in the school year. Likewise, of course, no announcement of the Bellarmine colony closure or reasons given; it, too, simply vanished from the lists.
In the last decade or so, the SEC has closed a number of chapters at the flagship universities of their respective States, including Gamma at LSU, Tau at Texas, Beta at Alabama/Tuscaloosa, Lambda at Tennessee/Knoxville, Alpha-Alpha at Maryland/College Park, Alpha-Delta at Penn State, Alpha-Lambda at Vermont, Alpha-Upsilon at Nebraska/Lincoln, Beta-Kappa at New Hampshire, Beta-Rho at Iowa, Delta-Gamma at Wyoming, Delta-Delta at Florida, Delta-Zeta at New Mexico, Delta-Xi at Ole Miss, Delta-Sigma at Utah, Gamma-Alpha at Oregon, Gamma-Phi at West Virgina, Gamma-Tau at Colorado, and Gamma-Upsilon at Rutgers ... an amazing number of closures of the foremost public universities in their respective States ... and I may even have missed one or two!
LSU, Texas, Alabama/Tuscaloosa, Tennessee/Knoxville, Vermont, Florida, Ole Miss, West Virgina, and Colorado have since been recolonized and rechartered, and all are apparently thriving.
Hopefully, Gamma-Kappa will spend a minimum amount of time in SEC-imposed Kappa Sig purgatory and return a stronger chapter.
Maryland/College Park, Penn State, Nebraska/Lincoln, Wyoming, Utah, and Rutgers have been recolonized and still are present colonies. Penn State and Utah have been colonies for some time now, and I would have expected them to have been rechartered by now. So they may be struggling with low membership. I sure hope not, and hope to see them rechartered before the end of the present school year.
We remain conspicuously absent at New Hampshire and Iowa. UNH is especially sad because Kappa Sigma was the first fraternity to charter there, and for many decades was one of the dominant fraternities on campus. Kappa Sig is seriously underrepresented in both New England and the Midwest, so the return of Beta-Kappa and Beta-Rho Chapters would be significant expansionary accomplishments.
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