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I think they do rush like a lot of the locals do. They aren't in the same situation as the other sororities...they don't have a house. The Nebraska houses are big and almost everybody but freshmen live in.

When I was in college Phi Mu and ADPi both lived away from greek row in university housing. There were 4 houses down by a three dorm complex called Harper Schramm Smith, that although is the most popular complex now, was the least popular back then because it was "so far away". Chi Phi and Triangle lived in the other two houses, and university food service provided their food and all four greek chapters ate at the dorms on the weekends. While this might sound very normal to a lot of people, this is out of the norm at Nebraska.

At some point, I think in the 1990's, maybe even the late 1980's, the university took those houses back. Again, I'll reiterate that I haven't really kept up with all the details, so I can only say it all happened in the last 20 years or so. At some point Phi Mu regrouped enough to buy/lease? the Beta Sig house next door to the Kappa House, but they are still a very small chapter compared to the others. Phi Mu and ADPi were always the only chapters that ever had to COR, and probably still are. ADPi appears to have decided to keep the chapter open but operate it more like a local sorority.

I know I've said this before, but you have to understand that Nebraska's greek system is old. Almost all single letter chapters, and they came on campus in the 1880's-turn of the century. ADPi and Phi Mu are johnny-come-latelies in the 1920's and have never really been able to build themselves into the same size chapters as the others. Living in the South, I know this seems upside down to a lot of people, but that's the way it is in Nebraska.