NPC Sororities at Big 12 Schools

[polarpi]

Originally posted by exlurker
Three have chapters at 10 of the 12:

Alpha Delta Pi (not at Colorado or Oklahoma),

Interesting to note, if I'm getting my Colorado school right (Boulder?), and it's University of Oklahoma we're talking about (since I'm unknowledgeable about the Big 12 conference really....go Mid-Continent! ), ADPi did have chapters at all 12 at one point.

Our Alpha Alpha chapter at University of Colorado - Boulder closed in 1985, and our Gamma Zeta chapter at University of Oklahoma closed in 1970.

[ISUKappa]

Originally posted by exlurker
ISUKappa, thank you! I did not include ISU's recently-closed Alpha Xi Delta chapter in the figures, nor did I include non-NPC Phi Beta Chi. I goofed and said ISU had 14 chapters, when the two Big 12 schools with 14 are Texas-Austin and Nebraska. Duh. I edited my post to fix that.

Oh no worries! I think it's interesting that Iowa State, which is not as big of a school as say, Oklahoma, is second only to Texas and Nebraska in the number of chapters on campus! Our Greek Communty is strong, despite the usual criticism and the fact we're a "cow college."

I think the last big expansion effort was in the late '60s-early '70s, of which only one of four chapters remains on campus. Incidently, ZTA, was a recolonization (They were originally chartered in 1926 and left campus in 1939).

There's a whole neat history of the Iowa State Greek Community:
ISU Greek History

Okay, I'm done touting my school now.

[NutBrnHair]

Originally posted by ISUKappa
I think it's interesting that Iowa State, which is not as big of a school as say, Oklahoma, is second only to Texas and Nebraska in the number of chapters on campus!

But wasn't OU's quota 76 this year?

[bluefish81]

Originally posted by ISUKappa
I think the last big expansion effort was in the late '60s-early '70s, of which only one of four chapters remains on campus. Incidently, ZTA, was a recolonization (They were originally chartered in 1926 and left campus in 1939).

There's a whole neat history of the Iowa State Greek Community:
ISU Greek History

Okay, I'm done touting my school now.

ISUKappa
Hmm...this is a random question, but where do you suppose the ZTA house was? I'm trying to figure that out thinking about Greekland, and I just can't place them anywhere. If ya don't know, I'll ask one of the other advisers next week when I see them. They were around when ZTA was still on campus.

[queequek]

Originally posted by bluefish81
ISUKappa
Hmm...this is a random question, but where do you suppose the ZTA house was? I'm trying to figure that out thinking about Greekland, and I just can't place them anywhere. If ya don't know, I'll ask one of the other advisers next week when I see them. They were around when ZTA was still on campus.

I believe ZTA house was the house between Alpha Xi Delta and Alpha Chi Omega on Lynn, now is an apartment complex.

FYI. Phi Kappa Psi is re-colonize at Iowa State this semester.

[bluefish81]

Oh all right, Alpha Sigs were there for a few yrs. I heard that Phi Psi's were coming back, and when I was at my house the other week to attend chapter, there was a Delt Sig guy there talking about how they were re-establishing as well.

[queequek]

LOL, forgot about Delta Sigs. They are re-colonizing as well. They still live in their house across the street, so I always forget that they were not recognized by the university.
TKE also will come back living in their house in the fall.

If Alpha Sigs occupied the ZTA house for a while, then who lived at current Alpha Sigs house at the Sorority Circle? I know Phi Delts used to live across Pi Kaps, and Phi Psi lived at Sigma Pi house. Sigma Pi used to live in Pikes house at Lincoln Way, before Pikes was re-chartered back in 1998 and kicked them out.
Where was A-Phi house?

What a long history, eh?

[ISUKappa]

Yes, the ZTA house used to be the old Alpha Sig house, which is now an apartment complex. The Alpha Sig's new house used to be the Sigma Nu old house, Sigma Nu left in 1997 (I think). Phi Taus were originally between FarmHouse and Kappa Sigs, but their house was turned into apartments when they left. The A-Phi house is the current Phi Delt house--it used to be a church. The old Phi Delt house across from Pi Kapps on the other corner of Welch and Knapp is now an apartment complex (imagine that). The Acacia house was originally their house, but when they left campus was turned into a bed and breakfast. When Acacia decided to recolonize, the owners sold them back their house.

Interesting, isn't it!

[ISUKappa]

Originally posted by NutBrnHair
But wasn't OU's quota 76 this year?

That's part of why I think it's interesting. Even though we have lower quota, smaller pledge classes and a smaller recruitment, we still have 13 chapters around. That's not usually something that's associated with a campus that has total under 100. I'm not saying our system is better than theirs--I think there's room for improvement--I just think it's interesting, that's all!

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by queequek
Phi Psi lived at Sigma Pi house.

That house still is the Phi Psi house, as it is owned by our local alumni corporation. We just finished our initial recolonization in Ames, and we should be rechartered in 2-4 semesters. I don't know when we will reoccupy our house.

ETA changed "months" to semsters because I screwed up.

[sageofages]

Originally posted by exlurker
This is sort of dzandiloo's fault -- in the "New Sorority for Clemson" thread in the Rush forum she mentioned wishing that some Big 12 schools would open for expansion so that DZ could present and, hopefully, colonize.

That made me wonder -- what is the general picture of NPC representation at the Big 12 schools (Texas at Austin, Texas Tech, Texas A&M, Baylor, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Missouri, Kansas, Kansas State, Colorado, Nebraska at Lincoln, and Iowa State)? These are all large or fairly large schools, for the most part, with strong regional or national reputations / school alumni support.

Searches of Panhellenic, Greek life, and inter/national HOs' sites produced these findings -- errors are mine alone, of course, and corrections and updates are welcome (in a couple of instances a school's site still listed a chapter that had recently closed, and I did NOT include those chapters in the following summary).

It appears that there are 144 NPC chapters at the Big 12 schools; Baylor has the smallest number (9), while Nebraska and Texas-Austin each have 14. The others are in between with 10, 11, 12 or 13 chapters.

Six NPC groups have chapters at all 12 schools:

Alpha Chi Omega, Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, and Pi Beta Phi.

Three have chapters at 10 of the 12:

Alpha Delta Pi (not at Colorado or Oklahoma),
Kappa Delta (not at Colorado or Oklahoma), and Gamma Phi Beta (not at Texas-Austin or Baylor).

One -- Delta Gamma -- has chapters at 8 of the 12 (not at Baylor, Kansas State, Iowa State or Oklahoma State)

One -- Zeta Tau Alpha -- has chapters at 7 of the 12 (not at Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State, Nebraska, or Colorado).

Alpha Phi is at 5 of the 12.

Alpha Omicron Pi and Phi Mu are each at 4 of the 12.

Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Xi Delta, and Sigma Kappa are each at 3 of the 12.

Delta Zeta and Sigma Delta Tau are each at 2.

Alpha Epsilon Phi is at one.

And six NPC groups apparently do not currently have chapters at any Big 12 school: Alpha Sigma Alpha, Alpha Sigma Tau, Delta Phi Epsilon, Phi Sigma Sigma, Sigma Sigma Sigma, and Theta Phi Alpha.

What the reasons are, I have no idea -- probably combinations of regional alumnae bases, funds needed for housing / colonization, the views of individual NPC groups as to their "niches," geographic factors like nearby chapters in similar schools, plus luck and the accidents of history.

Has anyone else looked at the NPC -- or IFC or NPHC -- makeup of another conference? I'll bet there are some that are very different from the Big 12!

You overlooked Phi Mu completely. We have chapters at Oklahoma, Nebraska and Missouri.

ETA: geez, I should read better....

[bluefish81]

Originally posted by russellwarshay
That house still is the Phi Psi house, as it is owned by our local alumni corporation. We just finished our initial recolonization in Ames, and we should be rechartered in 2-4 months. I don't know when we will reoccupy our house.

Really, you're going to reoccupy the house? I was told by our president the other week that it was being sold to the Sigma Pi's, not true?

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by bluefish81
Really, you're going to reoccupy the house? I was told by our president the other week that it was being sold to the Sigma Pi's, not true?

I was in Ames this summer, and attended a reception with Iowa Beta (the name of the ISU Phi Psi chapter) house corp. officers, Iowa State administrators, and other members of our Executive Council. They intended to reoccupy the house then. Also, I was in contact with our Director of Expansion, while he was recolonizing last month, and he was in discussions with the house corp. as to when, not if, we would reoccupy.

Why would we sell that house? Doesn't make sense.

[OleMissGlitter]

Interesting information. I love to hear about this sort of information and facts!

[exlurker]

Originally posted by sageofages
You overlooked Phi Mu completely. We have chapters at Oklahoma, Nebraska and Missouri.

ETA: geez, I should read better....

LOL sageofages, no problem! Besides the three chapters you mentioned, you also have Epsilon Nu at Oklahoma State, according to the Phi Mu national web site and one of OSU's web pages.