Where would you like to see your sorority/fraternity colonize/recolonize?

[SWTXBelle]

Originally Posted by austingammaphi

I would love for Gamma Phi to recolonize our closed chapters, particularly the ones in Texas, and especially our beloved Alpha Zeta chapter at UT-Austin. Stephen F. Austin and Texas Tech would also be great recolonizations, although when Tech offered extension a couple of years ago, we didn't submit for consideration. If Baylor ever expands, I bet we'd do well there.

So many of us want Gamma Phi back in Austin--I wonder if UT will ever decide to expand, and what it will take to bring any sorority back to what has become a very expensive place to maintain a house...

My wish list is University of Texas, Vanderbilt, Stephen F. Austin, Baylor, and Stanford.

As to UT - the biggest problem is real estate. No sorority could compete without a house, and there is simply no property to be had near campus. (There are other obstacles, but that's the biggest.) I know of another sorority which has an endowment specifically set aside for if they ever return to campus. They desperately need to have more chapters, but I don't see it happening in the immediate future.

[carnation]

Clemson
Rollins
Wake Forest
UTC
UALR

[ILBD1986]

Carnation, isn't the NC Beta chapter of Pi Phi still active at Duke?

[carnation]

Whoops! I mean Wake Forest, I'll correct that! I'm told that that chapter insisted on continuing some pretty bad traditions from when they were a local, as did several of the sororities who used to be locals.

[fcgmvt]

It would be nice to have our dormant chapters in Pennsylvania re-opened. And some of our dormant chapters in the Big 10 universities that closed in the 1930s-1940s, especially our first colonization at Northwestern after our founding.
And then colonize in the Midwest and more south in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and other nearby areas. New England doesn't seem to be fertile ground for fraternities at this time.

[Griffins&Quills]

I think Texas has a culture problem that needs to be remedied before they can be a truly healthy greek system

[womanlyalways]

Just a quick correction that Chi Omega was colonized at the University of Rochester, not Rochester Institute of Technology!

[FSUZeta]

Originally Posted by Griffins&Quills

I think Texas has a culture problem that needs to be remedied before they can be a truly healthy greek system

Please explain.

[Happy Alum]

[QUOTE=Rose&WhiteAlum;2323776]I would LOVE to see Phi Mu re-colonize at Rollins (Alpha Omega) and Stetson (Alpha Xi). We had a chance with Rollins last fall when they were open for expansion, but we were ultimately not chosen. One can always dream, though!

I'd also like to see us colonize at UCF and University of Tampa.[/QUOTE
I have dreamed of UCF and University of Tampa too.

[clemsongirl]

Originally Posted by womanlyalways

Just a quick correction that Chi Omega was colonized at the University of Rochester, not Rochester Institute of Technology!

Whoops, my bad! Too many Rochesters and not enough memory

[Griffins&Quills]

Well, the dance party for one... things like that shouldn't be allowed. And I could be wrong, but from what I hear, sororities tear down other sororities A LOT there. I think the current groups would have to be supportive of a new group and right now, I'm not sure they would be.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by Alpha O

I didn't know that about Helen and the Nu chapter! That is a very interesting piece of information.


Like Sciencewoman, I think it would be nice to see some of our other currently inactive single letter chapters come back. The ones I believe are currently inactive are:

Stanford (Lambda)
Northwestern (Rho)
DePauw (Theta)
Kansas (Phi)
Tulane (Pi)
NYU (Nu)
Cornell (Epsilon)
Syracuse (Chi)
UPenn (Psi)
Brown (Beta)
Randoph-Macon (Kappa)
Wisconsin-Madison (Eta)


I would also like to see us at more schools in the Boston area--MIT, Harvard, BU, Northeastern.

I'm excited about all of our re/colonizations, though. I love to see and hear about the Alpha Love spreading to different campuses!

The history book sold during our Centennial has lots of interesting chapter histories.

Brown is an interesting case. We have that chapter because we absorbed a local that had chapters at UMaine, Brown and Tufts, but Beta never actually functioned. The story is that Greek life was being closed at Brown so those women were initiated and immediately made alumnae. If you look at irishpipes' thread, though, you'll see that KAT and SK were on campus until 1912 after Beta closed in 1908.

Kappa was at Randolph Macon Women's College in Lynchburg (now Randolph College.) Randolph College doesn't have NPCs. Per Wiki, "The college [Randolph Macon] has a historical relationship with Randolph College (formerly known as Randolph–Macon Woman's College) in Lynchburg, Virginia. The former women's college was founded under Randolph–Macon's original charter in 1893 by the then-president William Waugh Smith; it was intended as a female counterpart to Randolph–Macon. The two schools later separated to become distinct institutions governed by two separate boards. Randolph–Macon College became co-educational in 1971 with the enrollment of 50 women and the first full-time female faculty member. (Randolph College became co-educational in 2007.)"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randolph–Macon_College

[SWTXBelle]

Originally Posted by FSUZeta

Please explain.

My take - 1. The real estate issue I previously mentioned 2. the heavily tiered system 3. campus culture is not pro-Greek 4. some Panhellenic leadership and finally, what I've always called the "UT mentality", which results in the tearing down of other chapters G&Q referenced.

[FSUZeta]

What a shame (UT Austin)

[ThetaPrincess24]

Originally Posted by ThetaPrincess24

I'd like to see Kappa Alpha Theta recolonize here:

University of Tennessee
University of South Carolina
University of North Carolina
Wake Forest
Oregon
Massachusetts
Arkansas
Montana State
Dartmouth
Virginia Tech
Villanova
Furman
South Florida

Colonize here:

University of Louisville
Transylvania University
Western Kentucky University
Bellarmine

Interesting! Of these we have re-colonized at Wake Forest and Oregon, with Virginian Tech in the works for the future. We did colonize at Louisville. As for the rest noted above, I've changed my mind regarding Dartmouth, Arkansas, and Transylvania.