Some Advice

AlphaFrog · #1 07-03-2007, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by KyleMcGuire1983

our campus has five NPC sororities and nine NIC fraternities (one of which is a colony). As a countermeasure we have decided to stop expansion on our campus until NPC expands. If NPC won't let girls colonize a new NPC sorority I suggest speaking to IFC about suspending fraternity expansion as well...

That doesn't make sense. Typically, Fraternities tend to be smaller than sororities, and more numerous. You'd probably have to search for awhile to find a campus with more NPCs than fraternities. Plus, because IFC doesn't deal with quotas, etc like NPC does, you're still going to get the same amount of guys rushing (save for a few that the PR of an extra set of letters would bring), and probably give out the same amount of bids. I know that there are a few more stats that go in there, such as the probability of a guy finding a "fit" amoung more groups, but in general, you're probably not achieving a more even guy/girl ratio, which I'm assuming is your goal.

KSUViolet06 · #2 07-03-2007, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

That doesn't make sense. Typically, Fraternities tend to be smaller than sororities, and more numerous.

True. Example: my school has 6 NPC sororities and 17 IFC fraternities.

gtdxeric · #3 07-04-2007, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

True. Example: my school has 6 NPC sororities and 17 IFC fraternities.

Georgia Tech has a whopping 30 IFC fraternities and only 6 NPC sororities. Quota was close to 50 last year, and average IFC chapter size is roughly 60 or so. (If anyone knows better, feel free to correct me... these are just rough numbers.)

UGAalum94 · #4 07-04-2007, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by gtdxeric

Georgia Tech has a whopping 30 IFC fraternities and only 6 NPC sororities. Quota was close to 50 last year, and average IFC chapter size is roughly 60 or so. (If anyone knows better, feel free to correct me... these are just rough numbers.)

I'm not correcting you, but it's worth noting that Georgia Tech's male to female ration is atypical for anything other than an engineering school: it's about 70% male. So, you still have more IFC groups than you might expect it things were proportional, but not as much as it might first appear.

And in case any female PNM's are thinking that you'd like that scene remember: the odds are good, but the goods are odd.

DSTRen13 · #5 07-04-2007, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum

And in case any female PNM's are thinking that you'd like that scene remember: the odds are good, but the goods are odd.

/hijack

Maybe so, but I like the odd goods I got

carnation · #6 07-04-2007, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum

And in case any female PNM's are thinking that you'd like that scene remember: the odds are good, but the goods are odd.

ROTFL! I remember commenting on the great odds to a sweet Georgia Tech Indian girl we know here and she said in all seriousness,"But you can't really count over a third of those guys."

UGAalum94 · #7 07-04-2007, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by carnation

ROTFL! I remember commenting on the great odds to a sweet Georgia Tech Indian girl we know here and she said in all seriousness,"But you can't really count over a third of those guys."

It had the same effect on me when I heard it from the mom of a girl who goes there.

Seriously, there are fantastic people at Georgia Tech; I'd even go with saying the vast majority of people that I've met who went/go to Tech are exceptionally witty and as socially well adjusted and as cute as you'll find at any campus.

But when someone from Tech identifies somebody else as weird or geeky, know that we're talking the characters from Lambda Lambda Lambda in Revenge of the Nerds in real life here.

DSTRen13 · #8 07-04-2007, 11:31 PM

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Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum

It had the same effect on me when I heard it from the mom of a girl who goes there.

Seriously, there are fantastic people at Georgia Tech; I'd even go with saying the vast majority of people that I've met who went/go to Tech are exceptionally witty and as socially well adjusted and as cute as you'll find at any campus.

But when someone from Tech identifies somebody else as weird or geeky, know that we're talking the characters from Lambda Lambda Lambda in Revenge of the Nerds in real life here.

What you have to understand about Tech is that the really weird and creepy people, you're never going to see and interact with socially anyway. So you really don't have to worry about them. They don't come out except to go to class and labs.

gtdxeric · #9 07-04-2007, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum

And in case any female PNM's are thinking that you'd like that scene remember: the odds are good, but the goods are odd.

In the interests of message board harmony, I'm just going to let that one go.

UGAalum94 · #10 07-04-2007, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by gtdxeric

In the interests of message board harmony, I'm just going to let that one go.

I'm sorry. I was just trying to kid.

Tom Earp · #11 07-04-2007, 04:19 PM

So once again, here comes the rub!

NIC Greeks will expand if there is a need found.

NPC Greeks will not expand even if there is a need to expand to cover the existing Chapters instead.

Why do people think there are new GLOs croping up as locals or going to Multi, Latino, Asian, GLOs, ETAL ? Dar.

Not all men or women will feel comfortable with the existing GLOs on campus!

They are looking for something new to place the hat on their heads!

Help pull the heads out of the sands and expand.

If we as Greeks do not grow, we dwindle and die.

DeltaBetaBaby · #12 07-04-2007, 06:56 PM

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Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum

I'm sorry. I was just trying to kid.

I was an engineering student, and I remember brining some sorority sisters to an engineering party. Hilarity ensued.

ISUKappa · #13 07-05-2007, 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum

I'm sorry. I was just trying to kid.

I laughed. The same can be applied to the husband's Alma Mater. He's an enginerd and I love him, but dang some of the people who attended his school were Weird.

SmartBlondeGPhB · #14 07-05-2007, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum

I'm sorry. I was just trying to kid.

You should try just a little better. Even I found it offensive.

gtdxeric · #15 07-05-2007, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum

I'm sorry. I was just trying to kid.

Yeah, I wasn't actually that offended... I've just been spending too much time on college football message boards, that's all

On a interesting (completely off-topic) note, my mother heard that "goods are odd" thing from a female orientation leader (an AXO, and the future Ms. Georgia Tech!) at my freshman orientation, the summer before my freshman year. She was trying to reassure my mom that I'd have a normal social life, because "half the guys don't leave their dorms anyway, so you barely even feel the ratio!" Not quite true, but it made my mom feel better, and that's what orientation leaders are for, right?