University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) 2012 Recruitment

[TriDeltaSallie]

Seeing the ADPi house brought back all the bad memories of my experience with our chapter closing. We had a modern house designed by a protege of Frank Lloyd Wright. (But much better looking that that big mistake.) Most of the sorority houses at MSU were the traditional sorority house in varying degrees. Our house was a huge negative. We were in a great location on sorority row, but it didn't matter.

We received tons of help from the national level and I do think they did everything they could. But the combination of a non-competitive house/building on a heavily tiered, non-Panhellenic campus was simply too much to overcome.

It's amazing that twenty years later as soon as I saw that ADPi picture, my stomach lurched. I had no doubts why they closed.

[AGDAlum]

Originally Posted by TriDeltaSallie

Seeing the ADPi house brought back all the bad memories of my experience with our chapter closing. We had a modern house designed by a protege of Frank Lloyd Wright. (But much better looking that that big mistake.) Most of the sorority houses at MSU were the traditional sorority house in varying degrees. Our house was a huge negative. We were in a great location on sorority row, but it didn't matter.

Sallie, I understand! The Alpha Gam house at Mizzou was built to be different and, boy, was it. Imagine a sorority house designed along the lines of a 1960's suburban ranch house: horizontal and rambling, with a mosaic-tiled foyer and exposed peach brick in the formal/informal living rooms -- in sharp contrast to the 1920's Georgian revival or Tudor styles of the other houses.