Anyone know of any other current Kappa Sigma expansionary activity?

[stufield]

Originally Posted by KsigAkron

Our colony here at the University of Akron will be getting installed on April 4th. We have around 40 members. Currently we are assisting the Epsilon-Rho colony at Kent State, hopfully they can become a chapter in late spring or early fall.

Thanks for the update on your colony. We are very pleased that your petition for a charter has been accepted, and that your chapter installation date has been set. Another active chapter in Ohio, where Kappa Sigma is seriously underrepresented with only four active chapters whereas most of the other major fraternities have well over ten, is most welcome.

Have you been advised yet what your Greek letter chapter designation is going to be? I would think it will be Pi-Pi or Pi-Rho, as Pi-Omicron has been assigned to the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, the next colony to be chartered; I would assume that your colony is to be the next one, or the second next one to receive its charter after UCCS.

What can you advise us about the fraternity system at Akron at this time? What other fraternities presently have chapters there? Which of them are strong, which, if any, are struggling? How does your approximately 40 members compare to the other fraternities? Have you developed a stronger rivalry with any particular fraternity compared to all the others?

What can you advise about the Epsilon-Rho colony? How is it doing?

[stufield]

I found the following article regarding the Fraternity's planned return to Millikin Univeristy, located in Decatur, Illinois, next Fall:

http://www.thedeconline.com/article.php?id=363

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by stufield

Thanks for the correction on the SHU location. I looked ion my Rand-McNAlly Road atlas and it appeared to me to be in Bridgeport. In fact, when I look again, it still does. But since I received your e-mail, I checked the school's website and it is indeed located in Fairfield. Interesting fact, tied in to you statement that it is a fairly large school: according to its website, SHU is the second largest Catholic university in New England. I assume that Boston College is the largest. It seems like a good school to be at. So hopefully our colony there will succeed.

CCSU may be a commuter school, but I know that Phi Delta Theta has an active chapter there. The Phi Delts are also one of several fraternities with active chapters at the University of Hartford. However, I also know that the Tekes had a chapter at CCSU,a and it closed. So the Phi Delt chapter there may or may not survive.

New Haven may also be a commute school, but Delta Chi has had a chapter there since 1981 and Sigma Chi has a chapter there as well. There are also a couple of locals.

We did have an interest group at Quinnipiac University at the beginning of the current school year (I believe it started late in the 2007-2008 school year), and I was informed by two different IMH sources that both it and Sacred Heart would be colonies before the end of 2008. Neither made it by then, but at least SHU is now a colony. I have made follow-up inquiries about the Quinnipiac group, but have not received a reply. So I don't know what is happening there.

No, unfortunately, there has been no UMass colony. There has been some talk of one in the past year or two, as the UMass administration is now actively supportive of fraternities and looking to expand the school's Greek system back to what it once was. Several fraternities closed their chapters there in the last couple of decades, but several have also returned. Unfortunately, Kappa Sigma is not one of them ... I would like to add a "yet" to that, but as I have stated on several other posts, the Fraternity is not proactive in targeting desirable schools and attempting to establish colonies there. So who knows when we might return there. I did hear that we had a small interest group there last school year. But it obviously did not develop into anything substantive.

Where are you going to law school?

I'm at law school in Connecticut.

You're correct, BC is the largest Catholic university in New England (and completely anti-Greek, for that matter).

I had heard about Greek orgs at CCSU, but just coming from my personal knowledge about schools, neither struck me as places where Greek life would flourish. If a Kappa Sigma chapter can start and thrive on either of those campuses, that's a situation where I wouldn't mind being completely wrong.

[chicostateksig]

Kappa Sigma to Return to UC-Davis

Dear Brother ,

I am excited to inform you that this fall, the Kappa Sigma Fraternity is looking to begin re-colonizing the Beta-Phi Chapter at UC-Davis

As a resident of California, we are hoping that you could help this cause by referring any student you know who might be attending the school and who would make a great Kappa Sigma Brother. We hope that you will consider friends from your hometown, your place of work, family, church or any other connections you may have to help us identify outstanding young men to be founding fathers of this historic chapter.

Kappa Sigma’s Area Recruitment Managers, Blake Baxter and Matt Rippetoe will be on campus in late February and March if there are any students you can put us in touch with please refer them to me. You can reach me at the below email/phone number should you have any potential rush guests we can speak with, or if you are interested in working with any of these future chapters as a volunteer alumnus advisor.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Fraternally and AEKDB,

Carl Reisch
Director of Recruitment and Expansion
Kappa Sigma Fraternity



Here is an email i got from HQ, Davis will come back this fall.

[stufield]

Thanks for the update, Chico State, but take the e-mail with the proverbial grain of salt ... or with our present IMH staff, perhaps a block of salt would be more appropriate. IMH, under the name of the Director of Recruitment and Expansion, sends out lots of these e-mails. But "looking to begin re-colonizing" [my bolding] is much different than actually recolonizing. Sometimes the proposed recolonizations or colonizations get off the ground, and sometimes they don't. So UC Davis MAY come back this Fall. Or it may not. Time will tell.

What I most get out of the e-mail is that the recolonization is not commencing this Spring, as I had understood and hoped it would, but rather is now scheduled for the Fall. I had been told by IMH that UC Davis was a prospective Spring, 2009 recolonization. By Fall, 2009 it may be a prospective 2010 recolonization.

Whenever if might happen, I am sure we all hope that the recolonization of Beta-Phi Chapter does proceed and that will be a roaring success.

[KsigAkron]

Originally Posted by stufield

Thanks for the update on your colony. We are very pleased that your petition for a charter has been accepted, and that your chapter installation date has been set. Another active chapter in Ohio, where Kappa Sigma is seriously underrepresented with only four active chapters whereas most of the other major fraternities have well over ten, is most welcome.

Have you been advised yet what your Greek letter chapter designation is going to be? I would think it will be Pi-Pi or Pi-Rho, as Pi-Omicron has been assigned to the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, the next colony to be chartered; I would assume that your colony is to be the next one, or the second next one to receive its charter after UCCS.

What can you advise us about the fraternity system at Akron at this time? What other fraternities presently have chapters there? Which of them are strong, which, if any, are struggling? How does your approximately 40 members compare to the other fraternities? Have you developed a stronger rivalry with any particular fraternity compared to all the others?

What can you advise about the Epsilon-Rho colony? How is it doing?

Yesterday I found out that we will be the Pi-Rho Chapter.

Basically the fraternity system at Akron is very weak, there are 12 chapters. Right now the average chapter size is about 30, some as low as 12 members. The University has about 26,000 students, but with it being a high commuter school it only has 3% of the students in Greek Life.

We have several rivalries on campus, due to a couple members who have pledged other fraternities but quit before initiation. Also, some of the chapters on campus are worried that we are hurting recruitment for the Greek System, which we know is not true at all.

As for Epsilon-Rho, they are a very strong colony, but they really need to work on recruitment. We are trying to get them ready to come out strong next fall because this spring they did not come out strong at all.

[stufield]

Originally Posted by KsigAkron

Yesterday I found out that we will be the Pi-Rho Chapter.

KSAkron:

Thank you for the prompt reply.

Interesting that your chapter is going to be designated Pi-Rho. The next chapter to be installed is the present colony at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Somebody from that colony has posted that their chapter is to be designated Pi-Omicron, which makes perfect sense given that the most recently chartered chapter is Pi-Xi at Colorado State University. The Greek alphabet goes ... Nu, Xi, Omicron, Pi, Rho, ... So if your chapter is going to be Pi-Rho, that would mean that some other colony is going to be chartered after UCCS and before your Akron colony ... unless, of course, the powers that be in the Fraternity have decided not to use Pi-Pi because they think that other groups on whatever campus the chapter it would be on would make fun of it, calling it Pee-Pee.

If that sounds ridiculous to you, don't laugh too hard. The Fraternity has resorted to such silliness twice before. First of all, it skipped the entire Eta series of chapters ... the only fraternity that has ever done so. After the Epsilon-Omega chapter was chartered at Georgia State University, the powers that be at the time decided to skip using a Zeta series in honour of mother Zeta chapter at the University of Virginia and to skip using an Eta series for what it called "euphonic" reasons. Then, even goofier, in both the Mu and Nu series of chapters, the powers that be at the time decided not to use the Mu-Mu, Mu-Nu, Mu-Pi, Mu-Chi, Nu-Mu, Nu-Nu, Nu-Pi, and Nu-Chi chapter designations, again for "euphonic" reasons, and again the only fraternity ever to engage in such nonsense.

So the Fraternity may be skipping the Pi-Pi designation. If not, I wonder what other colony is being chartered before the Akron colony, and thus receiving the Pi-Pi designation: Academy of Art? Alaska Anchorage? New Mexico Tech? New Orleans? Salisbury? Does anybody know?

[stufield]

Originally Posted by KsigAkron

Basically the fraternity system at Akron is very weak, there are 12 chapters. Right now the average chapter size is about 30, some as low as 12 members. The University has about 26,000 students, but with it being a high commuter school it only has 3% of the students in Greek Life.

We have several rivalries on campus, due to a couple members who have pledged other fraternities but quit before initiation. Also, some of the chapters on campus are worried that we are hurting recruitment for the Greek System, which we know is not true at all.

KSAkron:

Thanks also for the somewhat informative reply regarding the Akron fraternity system.

What are the other 12 fraternities (or 11, if you were counting Kappa Sigma as one of the 12)? And which are the largest, and, more importantly, which have as few members as 12?

If there were only a set number of young men looking to join a fraternity, and a new fraternity joined the system, be it Kappa Sigma or any other fraternity, and unless that fraternity was limiting its membership to a specific group of students, such as just Agriculture or Engineering students, or just those of the Catholic or Jewish religion, then that new fraternity would have a negative effect on the pledge numbers of the other, already established fraternities. Such possible negative effect on their membership numbers is often the principal reason why established fraternities and sororities frequently oppose the expansion of the Greek system on their campuses. The argument is not without merit on some campuses where interest in the Greek system is not that strong. The counter-argument, however, and hopefully one that will apply to Kappa Sigma at the University of Akron, is that a dynamic new fraternity could bring a whole new group of young men into the Greek system who would not otherwise have been interested in joining a fraternity, who, in turn, interest their friends, thus increasing the total number of young men in fraternities on that campus, rather than simply dividing the same number of men among the previous fraternities and a new one.

[KsigAkron]

Chapters at Akron:
Alpha Sigma Phi
Kappa Sigma
Lonestar (Local)
Theta Chi
FIJI
SAE
Phi Delta Theta
Phi Kappa Tau
TKE
Lambda Chi Alpha
Phi Sigma Kappa
Sigma Nu

We are the largest on campus with 40 members, Alpha Sig has 38.

The smallest on campus is Phi Kappa Tau with only 12 members, then Sigma Nu and Lonestar have 15 members.

[stufield]

KS Akron:

Thanks for the requested info regarding the Akron fraternity chapters. I find it interesting that the two newest fraternities, Kappa Sig and Alpha Sigma Phi, which just chartered at Akron last year, are the two largest.

It will be interesting to see if Phi Kappa Tau, Sigma Nu, and Lonestar survive.

[LucyKKG]

I finally met some of the guys trying to start up Kappa Sigma here (UC Santa Cruz). It turns out they're still an interest group; they need a few more people before they can become a colony. We don't have an organized office for Greek life (it's just part of student orgs), so I know the school won't care either way. They seemed pretty cool. A lot of them were younger.

[chicostateksig]

Originally Posted by LucyKKG

I finally met some of the guys trying to start up Kappa Sigma here (UC Santa Cruz). It turns out they're still an interest group; they need a few more people before they can become a colony. We don't have an organized office for Greek life (it's just part of student orgs), so I know the school won't care either way. They seemed pretty cool. A lot of them were younger.

One of my friends from UCSC has also told me of an Interest Group forming at Santa Cruz. She has showed me to the facebook group etc. Yet it may not even go down, I know Sigma Pi has just started a chapter. So this can be hard. Sigma Pi is a fraternity that is furiously expanding in the state of CA recent charters include Chico, Cal Poly, UCSB, UCSC and have chapters in many other schools.

[chicostateksig]

Kappa Sigma has two new colonies. One in Monterey Bay (CSU system) and the lastly UC Santa Cruz. I received an email on updates from new colonies already installed by nationals.

[LucyKKG]

Originally Posted by chicostateksig

Kappa Sigma has two new colonies. One in Monterey Bay (CSU system) and the lastly UC Santa Cruz. I received an email on updates from new colonies already installed by nationals.

Oh no way! UCSC is a real colony? Cool beans. CSUMB has an interesting Greek life. I wonder if they'll get an NPC chapter any time soon.

[jennyj87]

I'm not sure about the FGCU Kappa Sigmas. We were told by panhellenic and IFC to not let them come to our chapters or do socials with them because they were rude to our greek life advisors and are not recognized by the university.

I don't know any of them, but I have seen them with pins on. Could someone explain to me whats going on with that? How, if they are not recognized by us, do they consider themselves a chapter and recruit and such? I'm just curious, this is not meant to sound bitchy or anything