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"There are some good stories coming out of New England; the UConn and MIT chapters have been gaining strength over the years, Northeastern has been doing well for quite a while, and my old chapter (Mu-Psi at Boston U.) had its biggest fall class ever this past fall."
Yes, the few chapters that we do have in New England all seem to be doing quite well. The three older Boston-area chapters (MIT, BU, and Northeastern) are all very strong (Northeastern is on of the entire Fraternity's strongest chapter, and easily the most dominant fraternity chapter at NU). Epsilon-Zeta at UConn has also been a strong chapter in recent years. The new Pi-Kappa Chapter apparently is also very strong on the Bentley College campus even though it lacks formal recognition from the school's administration and/or its IFC. Psi Chapter at the University of Maine is not as strong a chapter, but does seem to hold its own at Orono. All of which makes me wonder why the Fraternity does not have more New England chapters.
We did recently have another Boston area chapter, Omicron-Delta, at Suffolk University. It was chartered in April, 2005. But it survived for just a few months before being closed ... I heard a rumour that it was for hazing ... and I have not heard anything about any move to recolonize there. KSigkid do you know anything about the Suffolk situation?
On the positive side, Alpha-Kappa Chapter at Vermont was recently rechartered, and we now have a colony at Sacred Heart University, which is located in Bridgeport, Connecticut ... I understand it is a local fraternity, and the SHU Greek system is going [inter]national. There are other, more prominent schools in Connecticut with well-established Greek systems that would probably be preferable expansionary objectives ... the University of Hartford, Central Connecticut State, the University of New Haven [we had a short-lived colony there about15 years ago] ... but given that we presently have just the one chapter in Connecticut and so few chapters elsewhere in New England, any expansion in Connecticut is welcome. Still, only one active colony in all of New England is pretty lame.
There certainly are a number of other schools in New England with well-established Greek systems. But the Fraternity is not being proactive about expanding to any of them, and instead passively awaits inquiries from interested individuals or groups at whatever schools they happen to attend. At the very least, the Fraternity SHOULD be PROACTIVELY attempting to restore the dormant Beta-Kappa and Gamma-Delta Chapters at UNH and UMass, respectively. Kappa Sigma once had strong chapters at both those flagship schools of their respective States. Ex-NFLers Greg Landry and Milt Morin were UMass Kappa Sigs.
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