University of Southern California Expansion Update

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Originally posted by absolutuscchick
Ok, I just talked to the old panhellenic representative (and new president) of my local at USC and I got news about the status of expansion at SC.

Here's what she told me:

Basically, before expansion can happen at University of Southern California, a social interaction policy was put in place. Basically, this says that every fraternity must do something with each house before planning more events with a certain sorority. The reason for this is that right now, certain sororities have about ten plus exchanges, while others will only have one or two because they they are not considered top houses. If a new sorority were to come on at this point, it would be very hard for them to compete with all the other houses since fraternities might not want to do things with them because they are going to initially be so small.

absolutuscchick,

This will probably not be the case.

Indiana University, (like most schools...check the "Top Tier/Mid Tier" thread) had a similar problem where the stronger fraternities would not do social things with the "weaker" (for lack of a better word) sororities.

When AOII returned to campus, many fraternities JUMPED at the chance to schedule social events with this new group becuase they wanted to be the first to "get in good" with the new sorority.

From what I've been told...they've had no problem schedule social events and they've had a healthy social life since then.

This almost sounds like the same philosophy of "lets not allow our greek system to expand, because it will kill the weaker groups".

But who knows...I'm certainly not an expert at these things, just speaking from my experience...and I'm sure USC and IU have somewhat similar greek systems (i.e. competitive)!

On the bright side...this will be good for the greek system! Now GLO members will have a better chance of meeting new people and expanding their circle of friends.

I wish that Chi Phi could return to USC...our chapter left their in the late 90s. I think LXA has our house now.