IU PNM Numbers

[IndianaSigKap]

OK...I am going to try to answers all of the questions I have seen so far. Wish me luck, as I will try not to overlook anything.

1. There are three unhoused chapters. There is NO campus total (another oddity at IU). You have chapters who come back in the fall with 130 women and chapters who come back with 180 women in the fall. There in lies the average total of 157. The three unhoused chapters decide their own quota, a member of one of those groups told me that they make quota to keep them at average chapter size which what their national organization requires since there is no campus total. Sigma Kappa will re-colonize its Tau chapter in Jan. of 2016 and it will be the 23 NPC chapter on campus.

2. The placement rate at IU includes those women who were dropped for grades, so if you take those women out the placement rate jumps to the low 70s, still not great, but much higher than half. Back in 2009, there were only 19 chapters on campus. Now there are 22. Also, in that year, several of the chapters took smaller pledge classes due to a large number taken the year before.

3. The IU Panhellenic requires a 2.6 to go through recruitment, however I had heard that it was being raised to 2.7. Some chapters require a 3.0 or close to it for membership without being a "connected" or "VIP" PNM. The year I went through, a top chapter was on academic probation with their national org. and could not bid anyone less than 3.0. They were very up front about it, thankfully.

4. More chapters are easing their senior live-in requirement. An older established chapter allowed seniors the option to live out for next year and only 8 women chose to do so.

5. I do not understand why the national organizations have not stepped in because of the missing revenue alone. A chapter took 35 last year, we figured quota at 74 if IU used quota-total. So therefore one chapter alone missed out on almost 40 X the new members fees, initiation fees, and future alumnae donations. Not chump change.

I am sure I missed something, but hopefully this answers a few of the questions in the thread so far.