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Originally Posted by efcheerBB
Have no fear I am here!! lol
First I want to say that I may have ran into you once or twice (maybe) as I rushed (yeah, I'm sort of old school... lol) during Fall 2002. That would be kind of cool.
Okay, I haven't really heard a whole lot about what's been going on with the Beta Beta chapter recently, but here is what I do know:
We did have a reorganization starting back in 2005 (I think). Since then, recruitment has been going well. I do not know about the numbers and all of that since I am in Missouri (where I am from) and haven't been up to the campus in almost 2 years. (sad I know)
As far as I know, they do not have a house yet and have all of their meetings and such at either Hillel or other locations on campus. The sisters either live on campus or in apartments.
We had initiation a few weeks ago and initiated 5 girls (I think. I would have to look up my emails to find out for sure). The house seems to be on a slow but steady climb. Yes, during the re-organization, we were not able to secure the house still (which was really sad because the house at 445 Abbott was the house that we had when we recolonized back in 1984 so it has some memories for us) so the company rented it out to another fraternity. I know that the last few years I was up there there was a musical chairs of houses (of sorts) as chapters moved and all of that. It was crazy. I don't really know where everyone ended up at.
I am going back to State in October for a wedding and hope to get in touch with the chapter and find out how the Greek Community is going up there. I miss being involved and hearing about everything that is going on.
I hope that this helps. If not, just let me know and I will try to get answers for you!
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Thanks so much for the info!
I hadn't realized that they had moved from the Spartan St address over to Abbott, so when I saw that Pikes are living in the Spartan Street house I got a little nervous. With 3 chapters just recently closing in 2001-2002, it would have upset me greatly to see MSU's Greek system lose another NPC group. Glad to see that's not the case!
I can't recall whether I attended Fall 2002 recruitment or not? I pledged in 1992 and graduated in 1997. However, I stayed involved with my chapter in one capacity or another pretty much until it closed. But it is possible that I may have bumped into you, even though I'm old.
As I mentioned earlier, there were a lot of things we could have done in the early to mid-90s to prevent some of the numbers problems that happened for chapters since 2000. (Easy to say in hindsight, I suppose.) I was on the Panhellenic exec board, and I really wished that we would have pushed harder to lower chapter total a little at that point. When only 5 groups out of 16 are actually
at total, it seems hard to justify keeping a chapter total of 110. But, there was a lot of politics involved...sigh, if I had known then what I know now, I would have tried harder to make some changes in the mid 90s though. I firmly believe that at least one, if not more, of the chapters that closed in the 2001-2002 era could have been saved if that had happened.
Eh...I didn't mean to go off on a tangent!
Thank you so much for the information though, and I'm relieved to hear that the chapter is doing well.
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