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Originally Posted by sistasista
How does Spring recuitment for this group look?
And does anyone know why Alpha Phi left FSU in 1972?
What plans do they have for a house at FSU? How long would that take to accomplish? I would think that being the only sorority without a house would be an extreme disadvantage when it comes to Fall recruitment, especially since the existing sorority houses there are so beautiful.
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please excuse the barge.
not an alpha phi sister, but an alumni of fsu. i know that the 70's were not kind to greek life at fsu (hippies, protests, sticking it to the man, etc.)-recruitment numbers dropped and several sororities were not able to weather the storm. alpha phi, alpha omicron pi, alpha xi delta, sigma kappa and sigma sigma sigma all closed during the 70's. that's an awfully high number for just a decade and i would imagine with each one, it was just a numbers problem. i would say a good half of the sororities struggled to make quota, which was in the 30's. the 80's saw an upswing in recruitment numbers that continued to improve even until today.
sigma delta tau is housed in what used to be the tri sigma house. Last i heard sigma chi was renting the sigma kappa house, which is located on park avenue next to the alpha gam house, across the street from theta and the back door neighbor of zeta. there was a fraternity in the old alpha xi delta house, which was in the next block from the sigma kappa house. and a o pi's house was housing sig ep, but there may be another fraternity in there now. that house is located next to dg.
if either the aopi or sk houses were available, they would both be nice locations, but i imagine that you all would be looking at major renovations thanks to a fraternity having lived there. the old alpha xi house would not be a bad location; it is just off by itself, but then again you would be coming in after a fraternity had been there. i don't know if any of these are even available and i know that your national officers are probably working very hard to make something happen.
as i little girl, i was fascinated with the round window in your beautiful house-i wish you all could get that back! however, i know that won't happen. fsu would love to get their hands on all the sorority houses, if they could!
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