You're right! Let's get a sorority with a squirrel mascot there! The UCF squirrels are infamous!
Would the squirrels kick the turtle out of Lake Claire??
UCF has grown at a break-neck pace. When I started there, it was mostly woods and dirt paths. In the time I was there, there was an amazing amount of construction-- the student union, new dorms, the president's residence, new roads, parking lots, parking structures, an incredible number of extremely large, multi-phase apartment complexes, new academic programs, etc. The level of the programs went way up, as well as academic status. We just recently had our first Rhode's Scholar!
I have a great deal of respect for the UCF Greek Advisor, Greg Mason. Yes, while the new member classes of the sororities are huge, we've lost only one sorority charter since the Greek system began there in the late 70's. We have really good programming, and a healthy respect and competition among the chapters. The sororities take hazing education seriously. And, unlike many other campuses I have visited, there is a sense of sisterhood between the sororities. It is encouraged and common to have best friends in other chapters. They work together. No sorority comes on campus until another has been given a fair amount of time to become established. This may be part of the reason for our enormous chapters, but I think waiting it out and allowing new chapters to become strong is part of what has made the UCF Greek System so strong!
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