Zeta Tau Alpha at Tulane

[badgeguy]

I have read and followed this thread with interest. It is sad on both ends to me in that both ZTA will not have another chapter added to their rolls yet, and the women at Tulane will have to find other groups to associate with. As someone who loves history I find this topic ironic in that back in the day when all of our groups were being founded, the stories of how early chapters got started usually by just having one or two members going to a school and attracting only a couple (sometimes more) people to start a new chapter.....now it's up to having almost 200?!? Wow.

When I was a founding father of the Kappa Sigma chapter at the University of Cincinnati we only needed 30. That was in 1994.....

Anyway, I hope it all works out for both the sorority and the women....

BG

[adpiucf]

Originally Posted by badgeguy

As someone who loves history I find this topic ironic in that back in the day when all of our groups were being founded, the stories of how early chapters got started usually by just having one or two members going to a school and attracting only a couple (sometimes more) people to start a new chapter.....now it's up to having almost 200?!? Wow.

When I was a founding father of the Kappa Sigma chapter at the University of Cincinnati we only needed 30. That was in 1994.....

Anyway, I hope it all works out for both the sorority and the women....

BG

Good points, but remember that when the founders developed their organizations they were starting from scratch and didn't have to stay competitive with other groups or be held to a set of rules attached to a conference. And a fraternity colonization is very different from a sorority colonization. Not to mention that the numbers needed at one school vary greatly to another. The idea here was to develop a ZTA colony that would be competitive with the other sororities and would become a chapter that would thrive. That required a number of women roughly equivalent to the existing chapters and also women who met the high academic standards for ZTA and Tulane Greek Life. It's unfortunate that they could not recruit enough qualified candidates to make this work.

[AZTheta]

Originally Posted by badgeguy

I have read and followed this thread with interest. It is sad on both ends to me in that both ZTA will not have another chapter added to their rolls yet, and the women at Tulane will have to find other groups to associate with. As someone who loves history I find this topic ironic in that back in the day when all of our groups were being founded, the stories of how early chapters got started usually by just having one or two members going to a school and attracting only a couple (sometimes more) people to start a new chapter.....now it's up to having almost 200?!? Wow.

When I was a founding father of the Kappa Sigma chapter at the University of Cincinnati we only needed 30. That was in 1994.....

Anyway, I hope it all works out for both the sorority and the women....

BG

There were fewer than TEN women enrolled at Indiana Asbury when Bettie Locke Hamilton formed Kappa Alpha Theta (not positive but it was either six or nine).

Can't compare (past to present, fraternities to sororities). Won't work.

Bottom line: ZTA was not able to offer membership to their required number of qualified women, based on their membership selection criteria, which is private.