New Sorority on Campus?

irishpipes · #1 02-02-2007, 01:07 PM

The closed chapters at U of I are:

Alpha Xi Delta (1905-? and 1983-1990ish)
Alpha Sigma Alpha (1982-1992)
Delta Phi Epsilon (1927-1988)
Zeta Tau Alpha (1921-1988)
Theta Phi Alpha (1919-1953)
Sigma Sigma Sigma (1957-1987)

The only NPC to never have a chapter at U of I is Alpha Sigma Tau.

The 2 struggling groups are NPCs. PM me if you must know. One of them has struggled at least since the late 1980s when I was there, and has a fractional number of members compared to the other NPCs. The other struggling group has not struggled long-term like the other.

ZTA has a lovely house on campus that is presently occupied by a fraternity. http://www.illiniifc.com/page.php?pa...er_tour_id=156 DPE was also there when I was but I don't know if they owned their house. It was very small compared to the other properties. Alpha Xi Delta was also there when I was and also had a somewhat smaller house, but very nice. I don't know if they own it. Alpha Sigma Alpha was there when I was, but they had a regular residential house that was pretty far from the others. Again, I don't know if they owned that property. They were a very small chapter compared to the others.

FYI, in my opinion, a group would have to have/get a nice, large house in order to be competitive. Delta Zeta recolonized when I was there and it went very smoothly for them. A constant issue at U of I is local alumnae support. Because the chapters tend to be extremely old, they have tons of alumnae, but not necessarily in C-U, which is in rural Illinois.

Drolefille · #2 02-02-2007, 01:10 PM

Thanks for the info. On a visit to Champaign-Urbana my mom had me drive around and pointed out all of the houses she knew and what they used to be if they'd been shuffled over the years.

Tom Earp · #3 02-02-2007, 05:35 PM

Come and go do they not?

So, it happens!

Drolefille · #4 02-02-2007, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Tom Earp

Come and go do they not?

So, it happens!

Until you can tell me where you came up with the idea that SLU has big old houses, you don't get to talk anymore.

No means no.

Bad Tom.

irishpipes · #5 02-03-2007, 12:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Tom Earp

Come and go do they not?

So, it happens!

Tom - trust me that most of that is the fraternities. U of I has in the neighborhood of 60 some IFC fraternities. Some have over 100 members and others have merely a dozen. Obviously with that broad range they may change housing situations occasionally. The sororities are remarkably stable at U of I. Of the 19 NPC groups currently on campus, only one has ever even recolonized. The rest are very old, long-standing chapters with a continued presence on campus. Of the 25 NPCs ever represented on campus, all but 6 are still open. Groups may have changed where they live on campus, but the chapters don't "come and go." And actually, none of the NPC groups have even changed houses as far as I know - at least not any time recently. That is more of an IFC phenomenon at U of I.

Drolefille · #6 02-03-2007, 03:45 AM

To clarify, my reference to shuffling referred only to the movement of chapters into and out of specific houses on campus. Not the colonization/closure of chapters.

/can't wait for Earp to mention that you can't live in the house if you're SUSPENDED! OH NOES

OrangeJuice · #7 02-12-2007, 09:11 PM

Hey guys!
Just wanted to let you all know that the resolution passed.

DeltaBetaBaby · #8 02-13-2007, 12:11 AM

I don't know how I missed this thread earlier. When I was there, the chapters having trouble received almost no support from the larger chapters. Unfortunately, chapters forget all too easily how quickly things can change. Top chapters become bottom and vice versa within five years at UIUC. A new chapter could do very well, and it is probably the right thing for the system, but it depends a lot on everyone playing fairly.

My only problem is the likely moratorium on COB. I am against this because it hurts the chapters that need to COB without helping the one that asks for it. I am sure this is what will happen the semester that the new chapter comes on, and it will hurt other chapters that need to keep their houses full (usually 4-5 chapters COB after formal recruitment, and it is not necessarily the same ones every year).

SoProud2BeAnAlphaXi · #9 03-19-2007, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by irishpipes

The closed chapters at U of I are:

Alpha Xi Delta (1905-? and 1983-1990ish)

Alpha Xi Delta's Kappa chapter was at U of I from 1905-1995 with a successful turnaround recolonization in 1980. I know we were at 150+ members in 1987 but then took a slide around 1990 and couldn't recover. We would LOVE to be back at U of I -- our members in Illinois are absolutely thrilled about this opportunity and all fingers are crossed!!

irishpipes · #10 03-19-2007, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by SoProud2BeAnAlphaXi

Alpha Xi Delta's Kappa chapter was at U of I from 1905-1995 with a successful turnaround recolonization in 1980. I know we were at 150+ members in 1987 but then took a slide around 1990 and couldn't recover. We would LOVE to be back at U of I -- our members in Illinois are absolutely thrilled about this opportunity and all fingers are crossed!!

Were you at U of I in 1987? That's when I rushed.

SoProud2BeAnAlphaXi · #11 03-19-2007, 03:36 PM

Nope, I'm not a U of I alum, but my cousins all were hitting U of I starting about then (I still remember SO clearly when my aunt became Mrs. Active Officer in the Parents Club about 2 minutes after my first cousin went "away" to school ... he was very understanding about it, at least publicly). My dad's a Delta Sigma Phi from U of I, one cousin is a Delta Tau Delta ('85ish), his wife (and my dear friend) is an Alpha Gam ('87ish), and my other cousin is a Delta Zeta (also '87ish) -- all U of I. I'm just about the only one in my family who didn't go to U of I, and it's probably only because my leg of the family had left the state by then.

PM me if you want to compare names!!

FSUZeta · #12 03-19-2007, 09:16 PM

i looked over the grades report . it seems most chapters are comparable in size. i mean, when one chapter is around 180 and another is at 150, will a pnm at a recruitment party really notice that one has 30 less members than the other?

i did only see one npc sorority that had low numbers-did i just miss seeing the other one? i believe that orangejuice mentioned 2.

DeltaBetaBaby · #13 03-19-2007, 11:03 PM

PM me if you really need to know that badly.

Drolefille · #14 03-20-2007, 12:11 AM

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Originally Posted by FSUZeta

i looked over the grades report . it seems most chapters are comparable in size. i mean, when one chapter is around 180 and another is at 150, will a pnm at a recruitment party really notice that one has 30 less members than the other?

i did only see one npc sorority that had low numbers-did i just miss seeing the other one? i believe that orangejuice mentioned 2.

If you look again it's rather clear. They're still a good size in my eyes, just not particularly for this campus.

agzg · #15 03-20-2007, 12:31 AM

The fact that there are 19 sororities on that campus boggles my mind! Coming from a campus where there are 5 chapters, with 40 members being total, and houses that never housed more than 11 members at a time... wow!

Sometimes I wish I'd gone to a bigger school... I stayed at the KKG house at Pitt earlier this semseter when my friend (the house director) had to go away for the weekend and I still couldn't believe that they had a live-in, non-member house director! Or that they required someone to be there in case of emergency! It definitely would have been nice to have when I was in undergrad.