New Sorority on Campus?

[DeltaBetaBaby]

I should clarify my statement. Most women want to live in the chapter house for one year, but many do not want to live there for two. This is largely because of the freedoms you give up to live in a chapter house, and the plethora of cheap apartments on campus. If a chapter only has a one year live-in requirement, they advertise it heavily during rush.

As far as the tiers, yes, there are some that are traditionally strong and weak, but I have definitely seen a medium chapter have one good rush and shoot to the top, or a medium chapter have one lousy rush and fall to the bottom. This is true of the fraternities as well.

Anyway, the point of my post was not to debate the details of the UIUC greek system, the point was that a new group could come onto campus and be competitive, even if they did not necessarily have the resources of the largest NPC groups.

[UofISigKap]

I hope that whomever is selected helps bring a solid recruitment in which everyone benefits and all the chapters are at a manageable and successful size. I was looking a the numbers in chapters currently. See the grades for the number of new members for each sorority and whole group number. Some of the chapters are HUGE! Some were big when I was there, but I don't remember so many hitting near 200. (Actually, were there any??? )

On a side note: I unfortunately never got to live in house. That is one thing that I wish I would have been able to do. The timing of when I was a member, my student teaching scheduling, and graduation date meant it never happened. Some people in my chapter LOVED living in and did so for three years. I know there is drama involved when you have so many women living closely together, but there are silly runs to the grocery store at 3 am, getting ready to go out for the night and yelling down the hall to find someone with a curling iron that works or a shirt that will go better with your awesome "bar pants", staying up doing laundry and chatting over juice bars from the basement freezer. It's just an experience that I wish I had. I was over there enough, it's like I lived there, but...