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Originally Posted by lovespink88
Yup, still on first 1st, right next to Aggers! They also had a neighbor to north...Pi Lambda Phi I think? But that chapter closed and the house was demolished while I was there though. Never knew what happened there...
80 does seem like a good size. Yes, there are still HUGE ranges in chapter sizes. Delts, Sig Ep & Pikes have over like 160 I think, then there's ones like Sigma Tau Gamma which has a house but have less than 20 brothers.
When I was an undergrad, Delta Phi had 5 members living in their big house on 4th (I only knew this because one was the same major as my roommate and she told me this bit of information that she found out from him.) Delta Phi has since closed down as well. That house then became the temp Pike house while their obscenely large new house was being built. Now I think the Tekes live there for some reason, and Theta Chi is in what was the Teke house on 4th & Gregory.
I swear, from the time I first became acquainted with the campus in 2006 there has been at LEAST 10 fraternity/sorority chapter house moves...
ETA: Ok so only 8 switches that I could think of...
Alpha Xi Delta now in the Phi Sigma Kappa house
Fiji now in the Phi Sigma Sigma house
AEPi now in their new house, they were in this white house on 3rd across from AEPhi that has now been demolished and apartment buildings have been built
Pikes now in their new house, lived in Delta Phi during the construction
Tekes now in the Delta Phi house
Theta Chi now in the Teke house
SAE back in their original house (was rented by Acacia)
Acacia in the Beta house
But that still seems like a lot!
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Do you know what happened to Phi Sigma Kappa?
Pi Lambda Phi suffered some serious numbers problems beginning around 2000; I guess they never recovered. At the same time, AEPi was growing a lot. I think that's what ultimately put them out of business, as they competed for the same group of men. I had no idea that AEPi had a new house, though.
Fiji wasn't there when I was there, and Delts came back my junior year, I think.
Moves I can think of when I was there:
Phi Kappa Tau got booted. Then Sig Eps moved into that house (4th and Gregory), then Sig Eps got big enough to take their house back, which the TKE's had been renting. I think, at that time, Sig Eps and TKE effectively switched places, but the details are fuzzy.
Delta Sigma Phi got the boot my sophomore year, I think, and their house was unoccupied after that (2nd and Armory, maybe? I know I rented a parking spot there, as it was close to Phi Mu).
Alpha Chi Rho moved back into their house (3rd and Armory) my senior year, booting Chi Psi, but I can't remember where Chi Psi went, or if they were unhoused after that.
Evans Scholars knocked down their house and built a new one, as well.
Virtually no movement on the sorority side, but the guys were always coming and going. Rumor is that the Phi Mu house is being sold soon, and I'll be very curious to see what group is big enough to buy it (it houses 67; one of the bigger on campus).
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