Where would you LOVE to see chapters of your org?

If alpha Phi Chartered at hawaii i would hands unselfishly volunteer my time to be their life long chapter advisor and reside there 24/7

[pirepresent]

I would love to see some recolonizations of our single- and Beta-letter chapters... we had some at really amazing schools, but the ones I think we could best support are:

--UCLA (our Zeta chapter... we were the first national sorority on UCLA's campus, which i think is really cool!)
--University of Michigan
--University of Pittsburgh
--University of Cincinnati
--UC Berkley
--Cornell
--Tufts
--University of Florida
--University of Miami

And the dream recolonizations would be:
--Tulane
--University of Texas
--University of Missouri
--University of Washington

[honeychile]

What happened at Emory?!?!? When I saw the number of chapters that have closed there, I have to admit that I did a search, because I couldn't believe it!!


ACW
CW
DG
SSS
SAM

Shocking!!

[polarpi]

Originally posted by Tom Earp
Any Soroitys looking for a School? Try Pittsburg State U. Ks.

While I'll agree with texas*princess that I would love to spread the ADPi love to ALL campuses that do not have a chapter, I do know that ADPi once DID have a chapter at Pittsburg State University/Kansas State College (according to one of our all chapter lists) ~ Delta Xi chapter, opened in 1959 and closed in 1973. Maybe this is the chapter we should work really hard on getting recolonized, so Tom can get to meet some of our fine ADPi women

I'd really like to see us have at least one chapter in every state, but two or more would be super!

[Sister Havana]

Of course it would be cool to have Alpha Phi Omega's Alpha chapter recharter at Lafayette College...it only closed in the mid-90s.

Personally, I'd like to see a chapter at Lewis University or Benedictine University, close to me.

[TriDeltaGal]

Originally posted by pirepresent

--UCLA (our Zeta chapter... we were the first national sorority on UCLA's campus, which i think is really cool!)

Umm...Chi Omega was the first national sorority on UCLA's campus in 1923. Just wanted to get the facts straight especially since Chi Omega at UCLA prides themselves on this fact.

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by TriDeltaGal
Umm...Chi Omega was the first national sorority on UCLA's campus in 1923. Just wanted to get the facts straight especially since Chi Omega at UCLA prides themselves on this fact.

According to Baird's, Chi Omega did charter at UCLA in 1923 - 2 years after Phi Sigma Sigma originally chartered there. Phi Sig was first at UCLA.

[TriDeltaGal]

What? Well, I guess that you learn something new everyday! But, according to even our Panhellenic webpage and the Alumni magazine, Chi Omega was the first. Just because they chartered, does it mean that they actually were successful as a colony? Maybe Phi Sig wasn't recognized by UCLA?

I'm very confused because UCLA has Chi Omega recorded as its first NPC sorority.

Pondering how I am going to get this answered at 11:00 at night by a UCLA Panhellenic officer...

[tld221]

i'd like to see bglo's officially recognized on campus. selfishly speaking, if i were going to join (and i wholeheartedly intend to) i would want to know there was a chapter of XYZ sorority on campus to rush, instead of going up to columbia or the city-wide chapter. same goes for the black frats.

overall, i wanna see NYU's greek scene to get hype! ive seen more nyu heads wearing letters, but theyre usually the same ones
dphie
aephi<---correct if wrong
TKE

and ive seen the latin frat, phi iota alpha<-- correct me again and latin sorority sigma iota alpha. but once again, greek is only big when ur in.

peaches-n-cream: i know you cant speak for all nyu greeks, but why can't we get down? do you guys prefer low profiles, or is it nyu admin?

[pirepresent]

Maybe because Chi O is still there? Or maybe because even though Phi Sig was a "national" organization at the time, we did not join the NPC until 1951? That might be a technicality though, because even if we weren't NPC at the time, we're still the first NPC group, right? Not sure. It's 2:30AM, so I'm not thinking straight...

I do know we chartered there in April of 1921 and I believe the chapter was there until 1972. Our past Grand Archon Judith Distler was from Zeta chapter and graduated in 1968.

Thanks for the verification, Russ! I was worried our chapter roll and our little happy fact was all wrong!

ETA: I noticed on the UCLA history timeline that only chapters who are still active at the UCLA campus are represented (at least, that's how it was for NPC groups - 11 currently active and 11 represented on the timeline). I am SURE there have been more than those 11 NPC groups recognized on UCLA's campus at one time or another, and they're not on the timeline.

For another example (aside from Phi Sig), one of my sisters was an legacy to Alpha Chi Omega, which her mother was a member of at UCLA. But there's no mention of Alpha Chi Omega ever being there, at least not on the greek timeline i saw. Also, Sigma Delta Tau lists UCLA as their Lambda chapter, but they're also not mentioned on the timeline...

There is also a little sidenote about how they're working to compile histories, and there may be inaccuracies. Whoever is working on the project may just be going off the information available, i.e. if Chi O prides itself on being the oldest chapter on campus, then assume that's accurate. Just a guess though... that would be very sad if we had been there all that time and had never been recognized!! I am going to email CO about it, but TriDeltaGal, if you hear back before I do, please let me know!

[sugar and spice]

Originally posted by TriDeltaGal


I'm very confused because UCLA has Chi Omega recorded as its first NPC sorority.

Pondering how I am going to get this answered at 11:00 at night by a UCLA Panhellenic officer...

It sounds like it was because, at the time that Chi O chartered, they were the first NPC -- since Phi Sig wasn't NPC until long after the 1920s.

Probably they started calling themselves "the first NPC sorority at UCLA" before 1951, when it was still true, and nobody thought to change it even after Phi Sigma Sigma was admitted to the NPC.

[exlurker]

The 1977 edition of Baird's says that Phi Sigma Sigma was at UCLA from 1921 until 1973. It does seem that the web page on Greek history at UCLA is incomplete.

One additional factor affecting UCLA's list of firsts and such might be that in 1921, of course, Phi Sigma Sigma was not in the NPC -- although it was national.

All this is a good reminder that just because it's on a web site somewhere doesn't make a statement absolutely true.

[TriDeltaGal]

I knew that they had nearly every NPC sorority on UCLA's campus at one time so it wasn't that I didn't think that Phi Sigma Sigma wasn't there but whether Chi Omega was the first sorority, NPC or not, at UCLA. But Sugar and Spice's info, cleared it up for me...I guess when UCLA claims the Chi-O is the first sorority on campus, they mean NPC sorority.

So go Phi Sig! First sorority at UCLA!

[Tom Earp]

polarpie, I was at The Pitt when ADP was there!

They had a large Chapter and a house, but werent "The Beautiful" Soroity!

They were the first to have a run out with us as a Local and as a Member of LXA!

One of Our Presidents Married an ADP and are still happily married in Minn!

I would love to see them come back on campus! KD was on campus for about 2 years and looked like a great bunch of women and a large chapter! Dont know what happened to them!

At Present; AGD, ASA, and SSS!

[AEPhiSierra]

Originally posted by AngelPhiSig
I would love to see us at Hunter and Lehman again, I dont think the CUNY system has greeks anymore.

The CUNY system still has Greeks!! I am one of them! I think there are only NIC or NPC sororities at Brooklyn, Queens, Baruch, City College & College of Staten Island but most of the other campuses have multicultural/ ethnic GLO's. And I think most of the campus have a couple of NPHC chapters.

Originally posted by tld221
overall, i wanna see NYU's greek scene to get hype! ive seen more nyu heads wearing letters, but theyre usually the same ones
dphie
aephi<---correct if wrong
TKE

AEPhi is there. AEPhi is in the process of recolonizing there. We should be a chapter again pretty soon.

AEPhi used to have so many chapters in NYC so I would love to see more at the following schools so we could all hang out together:

College of Staten Island
Columbia
Hunter
Queens
St. John's
Baruch
Pratt
Pace

Plus I would love for us to be international again with chapters at McGill, York or Toronto