Alabama Recruitment 2016 - Page 2

AZTheta · #1 08-04-2016, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by magnoliacurious

All but three of the sororities participating in recruitment either already are 400 members or above or are fifteen members or less away from there according to the greek fall 2015 grade report.

Updated information (always good to be current, right?): the spring 2016 grade report shows different numbers than what you reported for the Fall 2015 semester. I'm sure we all know reasons/explanations for this!

Regardless, these are huge chapters.

magnoliacurious · #2 08-04-2016, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by AZTheta

Updated information (always good to be current, right?): the spring 2016 grade report shows different numbers than what you reported for the Fall 2015 semester. I'm sure we all know reasons/explanations for this!

Regardless, these are huge chapters.

Hope I'm not going down a rabbit hole here, yeah those are the most current numbers, but similar to many schools reporting their high point of enrollment which is the fall semester as their "enrollment" and not even bothering to mention their lower number spring enrollment, I thought the most recent high point of membership for GLO's would be what most people would most want to know. To me, only for schools like Miami University of Ohio that have their recruitment in the spring semester and thus have the higher number of members then would the spring membership figure be the one you'd be most interested in. But I guess everybody's different! But like you said, we can all agree that Alabama has huge Panhellenic sorority chapters!

AZTheta · #3 08-04-2016, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by magnoliacurious

Hope I'm not going down a rabbit hole here, yeah those are the most current numbers, but similar to many schools reporting their high point of enrollment which is the fall semester as their "enrollment" and not even bothering to mention their lower number spring enrollment, I thought the most recent high point of membership for GLO's would be what most people would most want to know. To me, only for schools like Miami University of Ohio that have their recruitment in the spring semester and thus have the higher number of members then would the spring membership figure be the one you'd be most interested in. But I guess everybody's different! But like you said, we can all agree that Alabama has huge Panhellenic sorority chapters!

It seems most fair and accurate to report the recent and current numbers, rather than selecting what you (or anyone else for that matter) determine to be "what most people would most want to know." If people are that interested in NPC enrollment, as reported to the Greek Life Office, they'll go to the Alabama web page and then do the research (like I did!).

What the chapters are starting with in August 2016 in terms of numbers is what I'd be interested to see. And there is no way to get that information at this time (at least not from my searches).

Back to the thread :-)

Griffins&Quills · #4 08-04-2016, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by jolene

Holy cow. Any plans on expansion? Aren't the sororities already nearing 400 members?

Fingers crossed!

Titchou · #5 08-04-2016, 04:45 PM

and the groups that would have the most backing to build a house have elected not to submit packets the last 3 times Alabama has been open. We'd all love Sigma Kappa and Alpha Xi Delta back but no movement on their parts so far. I've heard rumblings of Tri Sigma but nothing there either.

DubaiSis · #6 08-04-2016, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Titchou

and the groups that would have the most backing to build a house have elected not to submit packets the last 3 times Alabama has been open. We'd all love Sigma Kappa and Alpha Xi Delta back but no movement on their parts so far. I've heard rumblings of Tri Sigma but nothing there either.

I've been hoping that after the whole racial/The Machine (or whatever it's called) kerfuffle settled down that Alpha Xi Delta would take a fresh look. Any campus where we would have to build a $5 million house is more than I can imagine us taking on, but if there was a house left that could be purchased, I could potentially see that. And maybe after South Carolina is on solid ground.

Titchou · #7 08-04-2016, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by DubaiSis

I've been hoping that after the whole racial/The Machine (or whatever it's called) kerfuffle settled down that Alpha Xi Delta would take a fresh look. Any campus where we would have to build a $5 million house is more than I can imagine us taking on, but if there was a house left that could be purchased, I could potentially see that. And maybe after South Carolina is on solid ground.

Buying one of the old ones and just remodeling it would be the kiss of death for a new chapter there. You are either going to have to go in to compete - or not come.

DZ_Turtle86 · #8 08-05-2016, 11:35 AM

Add Delta Zeta to the list of houses still to be built.

AnchorAlumna · #9 08-05-2016, 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by LXA SE285

If I'm not mistaken, the Theta house was built in the mid-'70s. I think they did a pretty substantial renovation a couple of years ago, though.

Theta was originally built in the 1960s - I arrived in 1970 and they had been in the house a few years already. Both Theta and AOPi (next door neighbors) were both extensively renovated just a few years ago.

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Originally Posted by DZ_Turtle86

Add Delta Zeta to the list of houses still to be built.

True, but they're building right now!

DZ_Turtle86 · #10 08-05-2016, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna

True, but they're building right now!

I read that they had an architect; have they broken ground? Exciting!

AnchorAlumna · #11 08-05-2016, 03:49 PM

Yes, I think they knocked down the old house right after finals. I'll get a look later today.

yellowhammer · #12 08-06-2016, 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna

Yes, I think they knocked down the old house right after finals. I'll get a look later today.

DZ is still in their old house, not sure when it will be torn down.

ZTA is in a swing house (original ADPi), it is said their new house will be completed for a spring move in.

Like previously stated, Pi Phi is without a house.

AOII will move into a swing house after recruitment (the original AGD house/now swing house is now too small to rush girls out of) the AOII house will be torn down after recruitment.

No word on Theta's housing situation, they are the only chapter who hasn't released a rendering for a new house, but I'm sure one is in the works! It is assumed they will build when DZ builds (after ZTA, Pi Phi and AOII are finished).

in regards to new chapters building. The plan at one point was to tear down Barnard Hall (which is across from Tutwiler and next to Gamma Phi) and the original ADPi house/swing house and that be two lots....which would be perfect Sigma Kappa and Alpha Xi.

Griffins&Quills · #13 08-05-2016, 04:22 PM

If I recall correctly, it's more like $12 million dollar houses. But I don't care, I still want to be back.

DubaiSis · #14 08-05-2016, 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Griffins&Quills

If I recall correctly, it's more like $12 million dollar houses. But I don't care, I still want to be back.

I wonder what the amortization is on a $12M house. I know the fees to live in at Bama are VERY high. But can a house be paid for in 50 years?

Titchou · #15 08-05-2016, 10:35 PM

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Originally Posted by DubaiSis

I wonder what the amortization is on a $12M house. I know the fees to live in at Bama are VERY high. But can a house be paid for in 50 years?

Couldn't find a calculator online that would handle over $9,999,999. But that amount at 3.5 % interest (UA bond money rate that was in effect 4 years ago) over 50 years divided by 400 members comes to about $88 a month per woman.