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Old 03-10-2023, 08:21 AM
SuzyInMD SuzyInMD is offline
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Phi Sigma Sigma at Cornell is closing due to low numbers. They're following on the heels of Phi Mu closing.

Cornell had a few closings in the early 2000s, with Chi Omega, Delta Phi Epsilon, and Alpha Omicron Pi all leaving around the same time.

Why do so many groups struggle at Cornell?
I am a Cornell alumna and my daughter is a current undergraduate. When I was an undergraduate in the 1980s, and shortly after, there were several colonizations in a short period of time, approximately one every two years. All of those organizations, including those you mentioned above, have closed. Phi Sigma Sigma and Phi Mu are more recent chapters, I believe both opened sometime in the 2010s. Most of the sororities at Cornell are long established chapters and those are not struggling. I believe only one organization that has opened since 1982 has prospered. It is the new chapters that struggle, they have successful colonies, then the chapters struggle after a short period of time when being the new group is no longer attractive. In my opinion, the question should be why it is difficult to establish a new group at Cornell.
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