"Southern" Sororities?

[KSUViolet06]

So how about those southern sororities/debutantes?

[ISUKappa]

Originally posted by bruinaphi
Ok, maybe I am showing my LA-Centricity, cuz my prom was at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, but if I went to school in a rural area I would have prom outside on someone's ranch or farm or something like that where you could put lights in the trees, set up a dance floor and bring in food from a caterer or something. I think it could be very "Great Gatsby"-ish.

Prom in a gym is not prom, it's another school dance.

The issue with Prom season in Iowa, it's usually in April-May and weather is very unpredictable. It could be 70 and sunny, it could be 30 and snowing. Besides, most likely, no one would have had a suitable area to hold it or we would have to sit through senior Prom smelling pig shit. Honestly, Prom wasn't all that big of a deal in my hs. Hardly anyone got limos; if you spent over $100 on a dress, that was being extravagant; we didn't have a Queen/King -- it was just another dance where you got a little more dressed up. Sometimes I think it would have been cool to go to a school where it was more of a big deal, but eh...

Now, back to your regularly scheduled topic.

[Nikki_DZ]

Originally posted by ISUKappa
The issue with Prom season in Iowa, it's usually in April-May and weather is very unpredictable. It could be 70 and sunny, it could be 30 and snowing. Besides, most likely, no one would have had a suitable area to hold it or we would have to sit through senior Prom smelling pig shit. Honestly, Prom wasn't all that big of a deal in my hs. Hardly anyone got limos; if you spent over $100 on a dress, that was being extravagant; we didn't have a Queen/King -- it was just another dance where you got a little more dressed up. Sometimes I think it would have been cool to go to a school where it was more of a big deal, but eh...

Now, back to your regularly scheduled topic.

ISUKappa, I think we went to the same high school.

I grew up in a town of 1200 people (and, honestly, I think they were counting house pets, too), and graduated high school with 63. Our prom was held yearly in the gym, which was decorated nicely-wires running length wise wall to wall so we could hang gossamer so you weren't looking at the ugly gym roof and to feel more intimate, coverings on the floor and walls, usually a fountain or statue in the middle. We tried as hard as we could to make it feel like a ballroom. We couldn't go off campus, frankly, b/c the school district couldn't afford the liability insurance of someone getting hurt, us causing damage, etc.

Lack of money for insurance was the same reason we didn't have a football team

[LSUTriDelta4]

LSU has 10 pan chapters...

phi mu
dg
tri delta
dz
kappa
pi phi
kappa alpha theta
zta
kd
chi-o

we have no alpha sororitites...

i think everybody hit their record high quota (80) this year during recruitment


geaux tigers!

[NutBrnHair]

Originally posted by LSUTriDelta4
LSU has 10 pan chapters...

we have no alpha sororitites...

i think everybody hit their record high quota (80) this year during recruitment

geaux tigers!

I hope you'll consider some "Alpha" groups -- with a quota the size of 80 -- it would be a good thing.

[OleMissGlitter]

Originally posted by NutBrnHair
I hope you'll consider some "Alpha" groups -- with a quota the size of 80 -- it would be a good thing.

Alpha Omicron Pi & Alpha Delta Pi were at LSU for quite some time. My godmother was an ADP at LSU. I am not sure of what other "Alpha" sororities they use to have. I know it has been discussed before here on Greek Chat about the "Alpha" sororities that left LSU.

[bruinaphi]

Alpha Phi also has a closed chapter at LSU.

[AZ-AlphaXi]

Alpha Xi Delta's Beta Iota chapter was the last of the "alpha"s to close at LSU. It went dormant in 1988.

[LSUTriDelta4]

yes, LSU does need another chapter. with close 1000 girls going through formal recruitment and only 10 sororities on campus, we are in desperate need for one or two more houses. unfortunatley, LSU's greek system has been slowly getting smaller. fraternities have been getting kicked off lately and sororities have been put on probation. also, lsu's sorority (and some frats) row is on lakefront property which lsu seems to want back for the "master plan/flagship agenda". several of the "alpha"/other greek houses have been turned into university buildings within the past decade or so.

im sure there are plenty of girls who would want to colonize and start a new sorority but just havent gotten around to it!

Originally posted by NutBrnHair
I hope you'll consider some "Alpha" groups -- with a quota the size of 80 -- it would be a good thing.

Alpha Gamma Delta's Theta Alpha chapter used to be at LSU as well. Don't know when they closed.

[sueali]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there a stigma with previously closed chapters (like at other southern schools) at LSU. What chapters have not previously been at LSU. I pretty sure Sigma Kappa had a chapter their at one time.

[EEKappa]

Sigma Kappa colonized the year that my high school friends went through rush at LSU - 1983, and was fairly strong during the time that they were active. I'm not sure when, but sadly the chapter has since closed.

[33girl]

Originally posted by sueali
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there a stigma with previously closed chapters (like at other southern schools) at LSU. What chapters have not previously been at LSU. I pretty sure Sigma Kappa had a chapter their at one time.

Alpha Sigma Alpha has never been there but seeing as we have twice the Alphas I don't think we will try to "reverse the curse" anytime soon.

[shadokat]

And how much would it cost an international sorority to buy housing there? From what I had heard, Alpha Chi Omega was going there last year, but then they didn't...or maybe it was Tri Sigma...anyway, I remember that the "housing" that was to be used by that oncoming group was then given to Delta Sigma Theta, and nobody was coming. Does anyone else remember this?

Here is the article from the LSU Reveille

http://www.lsureveille.com/vnews/dis...5?in_archive=1

Originally posted by LSUTriDelta4
yes, LSU does need another chapter. with close 1000 girls going through formal recruitment and only 10 sororities on campus, we are in desperate need for one or two more houses. unfortunatley, LSU's greek system has been slowly getting smaller. fraternities have been getting kicked off lately and sororities have been put on probation. also, lsu's sorority (and some frats) row is on lakefront property which lsu seems to want back for the "master plan/flagship agenda". several of the "alpha"/other greek houses have been turned into university buildings within the past decade or so.

im sure there are plenty of girls who would want to colonize and start a new sorority but just havent gotten around to it!

[CarolinaDG]

Back to the original subject (because I just now found this thread). Does anyone else find it interesting that the first two sororities ever founded (ADPi and Phi Mu) were both founded in the south, and of the original "fraternities" most of those were founded in the south? Maybe it just seems like the sororities are southern sororities because they've been around a long time and are stronger in the south? I dunno, just a theory. And although some sororities may be considered southern sororities, it is (like the Tri-Delt said first) some of these sororities that are even stronger other places. Delta Gamma, for example, is a very Mississippi-based sorority, but has the most chapters in California. And Tri-Delta is strong in South Carolina and other southern states, but as far as I know is very Californian as well.