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yeaaaaaaaaa GOPHERS!
I just felt I needed to post since it's my school's thread!
Coming from a hometown with a larger greek system (Madison, WI) and going to the U of M, I was surprised by how much smaller (greek wise) Minnesota was, too. After 5 years there, I'm still not sure why that is.
Everyone's first excuse is that it's such a "commuter campus," but I feel that, at least for the 18-22 year-old commuters, that greek life would be a great way to get to know people on campus, especially when you are not around as much.
It's especially concerning when total's going down and we've lost both an NPC sorority and a re-colonized IFC fraternity in the past 4 years! They decreased sorority total by 5 members, to help the smaller chapters. I wonder if the overall sorority numbers are higher since then. I really liked AngieWashU's comment that one of her schools had separate fall and spring semester totals, along with a deferred formal recruitment. I always wondered if it wouldn't help for us to have recruitment in the winter/spring, instead of right away in the fall.
That said, we do have a really long tradition of greeks at Minnesota. I know my chapter's been around for over 100 years. And our university administration is more supportive than it was under the previous U president, I think.
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