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Originally Posted by 33girl
AU has had sororities since the 1930s and fraternities I would assume for even longer. They’ve had ample time to adjust their programming to work around the fact that a large amount of the students have highly demanding jobs and recruit accordingly. So no, I really doubt that “the students are too busy for Greek life” is a factor.
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I agree, they have had time to adjust their programing. My point is that many of AU's students are already committed to their agency "sponsors" and don't have time or need for fraternities.
Here are the demographic facts:
AU has approximately 8500 undergrads.
37.4 percent are male resulting in 3179 undergraduate males.
Only 53.3 percent are 18 - 21 which equals about 1694 undergraduate males (assume 847 freshmen/sophomore students) in the typical pool of possible fraternity members. Of these 847, a big percentage already have government career paths laid out for them.
AU says it has 14 IFC fraternities plus 3 NPHC fraternities, which seems like a lot for the size of possible new member pool. To me, these don't look like very good numbers under the best of circumstances.
Also, AU is considered a very diverse campus. I don't know what was wrong with the chapter choosing to close, but, on a campus like AU (or really any 21st century campus), any organization that is not diverse (or working hard toward being diverse) might as well close its doors.
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