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Old 09-02-2010, 09:49 PM
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These are numbers from the SC Panhellenic office or the campus newspaper:

Registrations before recruitment: 963 From Panhellenic

Bids accepted: 539 From the Daily Trojan
That's what, a 60 percent rate approximately? Was that mainly due to girls dropping out of recruitment before bid day, or were there heavy cuts with a number of girls not placed? Or both? Just curious...
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Old 09-02-2010, 10:07 PM
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That's what, a 60 percent rate approximately? Was that mainly due to girls dropping out of recruitment before bid day, or were there heavy cuts with a number of girls not placed? Or both? Just curious...
Me, too - that's an insane difference.
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Old 09-02-2010, 11:00 PM
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It would only be speculation, but I am guessing it is both. These chapters have been on campus over or near a century. To add a new chapter, with the cost of land and building a comparable house, would cost millions.

Unfortunately, there are many pnms who will only accept bids from certain groups. In the past chapters have left due to small numbers.

I hope amycat412 will add her opinion.
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Old 09-03-2010, 02:55 AM
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To add a new chapter, with the cost of land and building a comparable house, would cost millions.
Not to mention there is no land...a couple of fraternities are in a serious bind because of this. One has lost their house and the other will in a couple of years due to fraternities recolonizing who were temporarily leasing their houses, but there are no spaces to build a new house (even if they could raise the capital). West 28th Street has literally no land to build on at this time. Due to campus culture, no GLO could thrive (or probably even survive) if they aren't on this street.
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Old 09-02-2010, 10:42 PM
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That's what, a 60 percent rate approximately? Was that mainly due to girls dropping out of recruitment before bid day, or were there heavy cuts with a number of girls not placed? Or both? Just curious...
Very few girls are cut completely. Unfortunately, like many SEC schools, there are a select group of sororities that are the historically strong ones and they have been that way since the 40s. Everybody wants to pledge these 4 chapters, and many will drop out when they get cut by those 4. It's always been a problem.
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