Starting a New Sorority at IU.

[Xidelt]

yes, i think IU has a bed rush. that's where chapter total is determined by the number of women that can live-in at the house. so the number of empty beds = the size of your new member class.

[Xidelt]

take a look at the size of the chapter houses on the IU sorority websites. they look HUGE to me! Like they house more than just 40-50 girls, which seems to be about the size of the houses where I went to school.

[kreich]

I attended IU's recruitment this past spring and I believe that the number of women not placed after preference was more in 100+ range - not 700.

The 700 figure that she stated was not after preference. I'm sure it was based on the comparison between the number of women who register for recruitment in the Fall semester and the number of women who were placed at the end of recruitment. Unless things are different than they used to be, 1/3 - 1/2 of the women who walk through the doors at 19-party will not join a house in January whether it is because they don't return for the remainder of recruitment, drop out during recruitment week, or don't get a bid after preference night.

take a look at the size of the chapter houses on the IU sorority websites. they look HUGE to me! Like they house more than just 40-50 girls, which seems to be about the size of the houses where I went to school.

Over 100. The year I was a senior they added onto our house and instituted a "no live-out" policy, which meant that anyone already living out had to move back in. There were over 100 active members.

[pinksirfidel]

Originally Posted by kreich

Over 100. The year I was a senior they added onto our house and instituted a "no live-out" policy, which meant that anyone already living out had to move back in. There were over 100 active members.

Wowsers!

[ta kala]

The 700 figure that she stated was not after preference. I'm sure it was based on the comparison between the number of women who register for recruitment in the Fall semester and the number of women who were placed at the end of recruitment. Unless things are different than they used to be, 1/3 - 1/2 of the women who walk through the doors at 19-party will not join a house in January whether it is because they don't return for the remainder of recruitment, drop out during recruitment week, or don't get a bid after preference night.

I know the OP was talking about total, but there is a huge difference between looking at the total number of PNMs withdrawn/not matched and looking at the number of PNMs withdrawn/not matched after preference. I was clarifying that the 700 was not the number after preference.

[kreich]

I know the OP was talking about total, but there is a huge difference between looking at the total number of PNMs withdrawn/not matched and looking at the number of PNMs withdrawn/not matched after preference. I was clarifying that the 700 was not the number after preference.

Ah. Gotcha. Yes. Sorry that I didn't understand.

[33girl]

The reason the NPC groups who aren't at IU aren't there is because they don't have the mucho deneiro it takes to come onto campus and build a house comparable to the other ones. So OP, if you have that mucho deneiro and want to call the NPC groups that aren't there up and tell them you're going to build them a house, go for it.

[breathesgelatin]

Originally Posted by 33girl

The reason the NPC groups who aren't at IU aren't there is because they don't have the mucho deneiro it takes to come onto campus and build a house comparable to the other ones. So OP, if you have that mucho deneiro and want to call the NPC groups that aren't there up and tell them you're going to build them a house, go for it.

LOL.

Random question: Let's say an extremely rich alum wanted to do just this. Build a house for their sorority at an ultra-competitive or huge state campus, and then turn it over to the local house corporation. Has anyone ever heard of this occurring before, or of a sorority accepting such an offer?

I'm sure it's happened before with groups of alums sponsoring a house, I'm just wondering about a single-donor situation.

[Sister Havana]

Originally Posted by 33girl

The reason the NPC groups who aren't at IU aren't there is because they don't have the mucho deneiro it takes to come onto campus and build a house comparable to the other ones. So OP, if you have that mucho deneiro and want to call the NPC groups that aren't there up and tell them you're going to build them a house, go for it.

It's not so much that as it is the lack of land on which to build a house. IIRC, one of the sororities that was housed in a dorm when I was there years ago wanted to build a house, but they could not get land to build it on. And it really is all about the house - of the 3 sororities that closed when I was there, 2 of them were housed in dorms. When almost every other sorority is in a gorgeous mansion, being housed in a dorm is a HUGE disadvantage.

Interestingly enough, this doesn't seem to be the rule for fraternities. Quite a few fraternity chapters have chartered/recolonized since I was there. (In that time there has been exactly one sorority chapter opened - AOPi recolonized.) There are several unhoused chapters at IU.

[magichat]

Dick Clark donated the house (castle) to DKE at Syracuse, or so I am told.

[SycamorePike]

Not to get off topic, but does anyone know who will be taking over the AEPi house next year? I saw that they were removed from campus and suddenly all of their letters around their house were gone, kinda like SAE a little while back and whoever lived in the house across from Gamma Phi Beta next to St. Paul's Catholic Church. It's now a police training facility. Someone said that was TKE, wasn't sure.

One of my friends was in an NPC at IU and they said that their rush "ceiling" was based on empty beds. It wasn't 100% on that, but it was in the general number that they based on for every recruitment period.

[tld221]

Originally Posted by ta kala

I attended IU's recruitment this past spring and I believe that the number of women not placed after preference was more in 100+ range - not 700.

OH well that makes a difference...