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Originally Posted by LucyKKG
Ok, I saw a girl in a Pi Phi sweatshirt at Burger King just now and a Sigma Chi license plate frame on the way home. Maybe there ARE Greeks here! :-)
And yeah, my school also has a LOT of locals. I believe an NPHC sorority is trying to start up again as well. It's just a totally different dynamic here than other parts of the country.
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Lucy, I'd like to point out that there's a great variety of greek systems in California, too. UCSC, known as a haven for non-traditional thinkers
, has notoriously been unsupportive of fraternities and sororities...at least the national ones. When I was in college I met many of our UCSC sisters at a regional conference and they were desperately looking for ideas on how to get the school to be more supportive. They felt a little like loners, being the only NPC on campus. So KKG's arrival was probably a major step toward a stronger greek presence at the school.
Contrast that campus with USC, which has a sorority scene more similar to the south (but still not that extreme), or UCLA, which is a big school with many chapters but has had to deal with a lot of anti-greek feelings in the past, too. Then there are small private colleges with un-housed, popular greek systems, such as USD, Chapman and Pepperdine. There are a lot of differences from one campus to another, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that your campus is unique even for California.
Since you're fairly close to other schools/KKG chapters, you might find it fun and helpful to reach out to them to plan a fun event so your chapter can meet Kappas from other schools. My chapter had events with our chapters at UCSB and USC while I was in school, and they were some of the most fun events we had. Also, I don't know if in Northern Calif. they do this, but greeks in Southern Calif., Nevada and I think Arizona used to have an annual ski trip that was always a good time and a good way to meet greeks (and sisters) at other nearby schools.
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