A Single Letter Chapters: Poll

[AOIIalum]

Originally posted by queequek
I know for sure they do not ban the Greek System (since Theta Delta Chi has active Charges at those schools), therefore my question is, how did these Chapters got banned by the schools?

I'm just curious, since sorority banning does not happen so often. If this is too touchy for you, please say so, I didn't mean to bash anyone/any GLO.

queequek, actually at one point in time both Brown and Stanford did ban sororities/greek life. It is sad when schools decide to ban greek life for whatever reason, and I know these are not the only 2 schools where this has ever happened. Fortunately for the current chapters at Brown and Stanford, the school rethought their decision! Even so, a sorority or fraternity may decide to not return to a campus where greek life was re-established. This is the case for us at Brown and Stanford, with details as found in my handy dandy AOII International History book

Beta chapter at Brown University began when local sorority Delta Sigma and AOII merged. The chapter was installed on 4-18-1908 but around that same time, Brown University banned all sororities for whatever reason (not just AOII.) Beta was installed but unfortunately due to that decision was never an active chapter. The Beta chapter members participated as alumnae.

As for Lambda at Stanford, the Stanford Board of Trustees discontinued all sororities in 1944 (again, NOT just AOII.) I couldn't tell you why, since I wasn't alive then When that occurred, the chapter's charter was held in trust and still is to this day.

Hope that clarifies things a bit!
Fraternally,
Christin

ETA--the same thing goes for our Alpha chapter. Barnard College and the panhellenic there passed a series of regulations between 1907 and 1913 that limited, and finally abolished rushing. These regulations effectively killed all sororities at Barnard at that time. By 1914 all of our Alpha chapter members were alumnae and our Alpha charter is currently held in trust.

[etahannah]

Originally posted by AUDeltaGam
Our oldest chapter, Eta, will be celebrating 125 years on March 15!!!

125 years of CONTINUED existance!!!!

founders day and initiation is next sat!!

damn we are old!!

hehe

[Intense1920]

Alpha - Howard University
Beta - Morris Brown College
Gamma - Morgan State Univeristy
Delta - San Antonio, TX city-wide
Epsilon - New York, NY city-wide
Zeta - Alcorn State University
Eta - Temple University
Theta - Wiley College
Iota - Talladega College
Kappa - Johnson C. Smith Univerity
Lambda - Allen University
Mu - Claflin College
Nu - Virginia Union University
Xi - Detroit, MI city-wide
Omicron - Shaw University
Pi - Knoxville College
Rho - Dallas, TX city-wide
Sigma - Livingstone College
Tau - Philander Smith College
Upsilon - Delaware State University
Phi - Virginia State University
Chi - Cheney University
Psi - Clark Atlanta University
Omega - Winston-Salem State University

[aephi alum]

Originally posted by AOIIalum
ETA--the same thing goes for our Alpha chapter. Barnard College and the panhellenic there passed a series of regulations between 1907 and 1913 that limited, and finally abolished rushing. These regulations effectively killed all sororities at Barnard at that time. By 1914 all of our Alpha chapter members were alumnae and our Alpha charter is currently held in trust.

AEPhi's Alpha chapter was also founded at Barnard, in 1909, and, like AOII's Alpha chapter, was destroyed by the administration's policy changes.

It's amazing that AEPhi survived Barnard's crackdown; our Beta chapter was also established in 1909, but Gamma wasn't founded until 1915. It's a tribute to the tenacity of our founders and other early sisters that AEPhi kept going and is now an NPC sorority.

Because I'm too lazy to cut and paste, here's our chartered chapter list:
http://www.aephi.org/story/chapter.asp

[ISUKappa]

Kappa Kappa Gamma:

Alpha: Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL - 1870-1884, 1934
Beta: St. Mary's School, Knoxville, IL - 1871-1874
Gamma: Smithson COllege, Logansport, IL - 1873-1875
Delta: Indiana University, Bloomington, IN - 1872
Epsilon: Illinois Wesleyan, Bloomington, IL - 1873
Zeta: Rockford Seminary, Rockford, IL - 1874-1878
Eta: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI - 1875
Theta: University of Missouri, Columbia, MO - 1875
Iota: DePauw University, Greencastle, IN - 1875
Lambda: University of Akron, Akron, OH - 1877
Mu: Butler University, Indianapolis, IN - 1878
Nu: Franklin College, Franklin, IN - 1879-1884
Omicron: Simpson College, Indianola, IA - 1880-1890, 1990
Chi: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN - 1880
Pi: University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA - 1880-1885, 1897
Rho: Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH - 1880-1884, 1925
Tau: Lasell Seminary, Auburndale, MA - 1881-1882
Kappa: Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI - 1881
Upsilon: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL - 1882
Phi: Boston University, Boston, MA - 1882-1971
Xi: Adrian College, Adrian, MI - 1882-1944
Psi: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY - 1883-1969, 1977
Omega: University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS - 1883
Sigma: University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE - 1884


Beta Gamma: University of Wooster, Wooster, OH - 1876-1914
Beta Beta: St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY - 1881-1903, 1915
Beta Zeta: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA - 1882
Beta Tau: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY - 1883

Prior to 1890, chapters that were established after a previous chapter had folded were given that chapter's designation letter. Then, at the 1890 convention, it was determined the second chapters would use the letter Beta to preface the chapter letter to show they were the second chapter of that letter and closed chapter letters would not be re-used. Chapters that were closed and then later reinstated use the designation "Deuteron" (a small delta set superscript to the letter) for the Greek term meaning "second".

Six of our early chapters are no longer active. All chapters that were reinstated are still active.

[DeltAlum]

<----Proud memeber of Beta Chapter, Delta Tau Delta's oldest continuous chapter. Founded at Ohio University in 1862.

[queequek]

Originally posted by AOIIalum
queequek, actually at one point in time both Brown and Stanford did ban sororities/greek life. It is sad when schools decide to ban greek life for whatever reason, and I know these are not the only 2 schools where this has ever happened. Fortunately for the current chapters at Brown and Stanford, the school rethought their decision! Even so, a sorority or fraternity may decide to not return to a campus where greek life was re-established. This is the case for us at Brown and Stanford, with details as found in my handy dandy AOII International History book

Beta chapter at Brown University began when local sorority Delta Sigma and AOII merged. The chapter was installed on 4-18-1908 but around that same time, Brown University banned all sororities for whatever reason (not just AOII.) Beta was installed but unfortunately due to that decision was never an active chapter. The Beta chapter members participated as alumnae.

As for Lambda at Stanford, the Stanford Board of Trustees discontinued all sororities in 1944 (again, NOT just AOII.) I couldn't tell you why, since I wasn't alive then When that occurred, the chapter's charter was held in trust and still is to this day.

Hope that clarifies things a bit!
Fraternally,
Christin

Hey Christin,
Thanks for the info, I learn new things about our house everyday!
Hmm .. the time frame you gave me for Stanford and Brown GLO banning doesn't match with our active Charges record. Perhaps we went underground?

Brown (Zeta Charge) 1853-1877, 1887-1971, 1975-
Stanford (Eta Deuteron Charge) 1903-1990, 1993-

[exlurker]

Originally posted by queequek
Hey Christin,
Thanks for the info, I learn new things about our house everyday!
Hmm .. the time frame you gave me for Stanford and Brown GLO banning doesn't match with our active Charges record. Perhaps we went underground?

Brown (Zeta Charge) 1853-1877, 1887-1971, 1975-
Stanford (Eta Deuteron Charge) 1903-1990, 1993-

queequek, I believe AOIIalum's post said that Brown and Stanford banned sororities -- not all Greek life. The fraternities were not banned. Sorry, I don't know the situations that affected your Charges teher at different times.

[The_Nash]

Sigma Pi's single letter chapters in order of founding date
Alpha- Vincennes University
Phi- Univ of Illinois
Gamma- Ohio State Univ
Kappa- Temple
Delta-Univ. of Pennsylvania
Epsilon- Ohio University
Zeta- Ohio Northern University
Eta- Purdue
Theta- Penn State
Iota- University Of California Berkeley
Lambda- Kenyon College
Mu- Cornell
Nu- Franklin and Marshall College
Xi- University of Iowa
Omicron- Tulane
Pi- University of Utah Salt Lake City
Rho- North Carolina State University
Sigma- Iowa State Universtiy
Tau-University of Wisconson Madison
Upsilon- UCLA
Chi-University of Pittsburgh
Psi- Emory University
Omega- Oregon State University
Beta- Indiana University

16 of these chapters are active, with 2 of them being recently colonized, including University of Wisconsin Madison after being closed since 1932.

[Nikki_DZ]

Originally posted by KillarneyRose
Sharp-eyed readers will notice that, although the University of Minnesota chapter is designated "Gamma", it was actually installed in 1923; years after the rest of the single-letter chapters. I don't remember why this is, though, so if any Delta Zetas know, feel free to chime in!

This is what I remember hearing about Minnesota...

Colonizers had planned on starting the chapter for several years before it was actually established. Gamma was reserved for the chapter because of the school's fondness for the letter "G" (Golden Gophers). However, the powers-that-be didn't extend the same courtesy to Alpha Beta (U of Illinois) who requested to be the Psi chapter (Psi looking similar to the UI's logo). Of course, I heard this from a AB alum .

[TSteven]

I posted this with respect to Big XII sororities.

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Fun Fact regarding UNL. The Greek system at Nebraska is one of the oldest in the country. Many sororities came to NU early on thus, all but three current sororities have single chapter denotations.

Alpha Chi Omega - Xi
Alpha Delta Pi - Alpha Epsilon
Alpha Omicron Pi - Zeta
Alpha Phi - Nu
Alpha Xi Delta - Rho
Chi Omega - Kappa
Delta Delta Delta - Kappa
Delta Gamma - Kappa
Gamma Phi Beta - Pi
Kappa Alpha Theta - Rho
Kappa Delta - Pi
Kappa Kappa Gamma - Sigma
Phi Mu - Zeta Gamma
Pi Beta Phi - Nebraska Beta

Inactive

Delta Zeta - Zeta
Sigma Delta Tau - Theta
Sigma Kappa - Alpha Kappa
Theta Phi Alpha - Mu
Zeta Tau Alpha - Beta Epsilon"

[XOMichelle]

Originally posted by queequek
I know for sure they do not ban the Greek System (since Theta Delta Chi has active Charges at those schools), therefore my question is, how did these Chapters got banned by the schools?

I'm just curious, since sorority banning does not happen so often. If this is too touchy for you, please say so, I didn't mean to bash anyone/any GLO.

Only Sororities were banned at Stanford in 1944. For a very long time, Stanford accepted a set number of women into each class (I can't remember if it was 500 total or 500 each). At any rate, I've found references to the "Stanford 500" when talking about the women on campus. This gave the sororities a stable population upon which to build membership. There were quite a few on campus in the early 1900's. From old yearbooks I’ve seen there were about 10 chapters all with nice houses (the old Chi O house is still on campus, but it is general housing). During WWII, the University started admitting more women than it had previously. They decided that the new influx of women made sorority rush too competitive, since there were not enough spots for interested women. Somehow establishing more sororities never occurred to the administration, and they banned all Sororities. The male Fraternities were allowed to stay.

In the late 70's it was brought to the University’s attention that their policy was sexist, and illegal. They changed their policy in 1978 (I think), and Kappa and Theta re-colonized shortly thereafter. 6 chapters re-colonized (Kappa, Pi Phi, Theta, Tri Delta, Delta Gamma and Chi Omega). Delta Gamma closed in 1997.

If I have got my facts wrong, please tell!
-Michelle

[AUDeltaGam]

Delta Gamma's single letter chapters!

Eta-Akron
Omega-Wisconsin
Sigma-Northwestern
Lambda-Minnesota
Zeta-Albion
Chi-Cornell
Xi-Michigan
Phi-Colorado
Tau-Iowa
Kappa-Nebraska
Psi-Goucher*
Upsilon-Stanford*
Theta-Indiana
Rho-Syracuse
Beta-Washington
Iota-Illinois
Gamma-California, Berkeley
Omicron-Adelphi
Mu-Missouri
Epsilon-Ohio State
Pi-Montana
Nu-Idaho

*=inactive

[AlphaPhiBubbles]

Originally posted by SATX*APhi
Alpha Phi - All chapters are active except for the few that I have noted. (If any of you Alpha Phi's have any corrections, please let me know and I will update. Thanks)


Alpha - Syracuse University
Beta - Northwestern University
Gamma - DePauw University
Delta - Cornell University
Epsilon - University of Minnesota
Zeta - Goucher College inactive - no Greek life
Eta deuteron - Boston University
Theta - University of Michigan
Iota - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kappa deuteron - Stanford University inactive
Lambda - University of California
Mu - Barnard College inactive - no Greek life
Nu - University of Nebraska
Xi - University of Toronto
Omicron - University of Missouri
Pi - University of North Dakota
Rho - Ohio State University
Sigma - University of Washington
Tau - University of Oregon
Upsilon - Washburn University
Phi - University of Oklahoma - inactive
Chi - University of Montana
Psi - University of South Dakota
Omega - University of Texas

This probably goes without saying...but I live in California and I can be nit picky....so just so people know, our Lambda chapter is at UC Berkeley (like many other single letter chapters, but there were some UCLA ones...so yea) Sorry SATX

[SATX*APhi]

Originally posted by AlphaPhiBubbles
This probably goes without saying...but I live in California and I can be nit picky....so just so people know, our Lambda chapter is at UC Berkeley (like many other single letter chapters, but there were some UCLA ones...so yea) Sorry SATX

Dude, don't worry! I copied and pasted from a site and figured it was it's best and needed no improvements!

What's really important, though, is that only four of our "single letter chapters" are closed, two of which closed because Greek Life was banned! How's that?!