Sigma Kappa @ Mizzou Closes

[AGDAlum]

Oh, wow.

That's my house! Sigma Kappa bought the Alpha Gam house. I stopped by to see it when I was in Columbia in 1995. They did a wonderful remodeling job.

The newspaper article said the people interviewed did not know what the SK chapter closed in 1973. I do (I was panhellenic president that year). MU Greeks have extremely competitive housing. SK's house from 1968-72 was one of those three story house-houses (y'know the kind: probably single-family ca. 1900 and added onto and subdivided to accommodate students). That did not compete with the grand, white-columned houses in the rest of Greektown. In 1973 SK tried something novel: renting adjacent modern apartments in a complex north of campus (White Gate, for those of you familiar with Columbia). It was an effort to appeal to the idea that members wouldn't have to live in the sorority house. It didn't work.

MU is tough for NPC expansion. Let's see if I can reconstruct (I don't have Baird's handy) :
* Phi Mu closed in the late 30's? (Depression) and recolonized recently (2001?)
* ZTA closed for a few years during/after the Depression, but recolonized successfully (early 50's); new house 1964
* SK was chartered in 1968; closed in 1973; recolonized 1990
* AGD closed in 1975; recolonized in 1981; closed in ca. 1988
* KD colonized in 1975 and is doing well
* AEPhi closed in the late 90's
* AOPi and DPhiE colonized in the 1980's and closed shortly thereafter

These NPC groups haven't been at MU:
ASA, AST, AXiD, DZ, Tri Sig, TPA
.....I guess there's a house available!