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Old 10-08-2024, 03:47 PM
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I find the Alabama houses quite overwhelming from the street; they give steroids/Disneyland to me.
That struck me as well. I evacuated to Tuscaloosa after Ida, and made a point of taking a drive around campus, and those houses are huge. They also struck me as pretty cookie-cutter for the most part - the house that stuck out to me was Phi Mu. It also struck me that if an NPC sorority were to colonize, where would they even put a house?

That's just physical infrastructure. I didn't go into any of the houses or talk to any members. If AEPhi still had a chapter there, I might have knocked on their door, but that chapter is dormant, and in any case recruitment had just ended and everyone was gearing up for football season.
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Old 10-08-2024, 04:29 PM
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That struck me as well. I evacuated to Tuscaloosa after Ida, and made a point of taking a drive around campus, and those houses are huge. They also struck me as pretty cookie-cutter for the most part - the house that stuck out to me was Phi Mu. It also struck me that if an NPC sorority were to colonize, where would they even put a house?

That's just physical infrastructure. I didn't go into any of the houses or talk to any members. If AEPhi still had a chapter there, I might have knocked on their door, but that chapter is dormant, and in any case recruitment had just ended and everyone was gearing up for football season.
the Phi Mu house is a larger version of their original house....back when all were very different. They didn't want to build new but did when they were certain they could reuse the style. There are a couple of houses right now from the old rows that are "swing"houses - used for groups who want to rebuild or add on/renovate - fraternities included. Since it is UA land, they just hold on to them. That land could be used. And there is an old dorm to the southeast of the DG house that could torn down as well.
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Old 10-09-2024, 05:58 PM
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\They also struck me as pretty cookie-cutter for the most part.
Yes. Tri Delta is my favorite of the new houses for that reason. Points to Chi Omega for being the only organization that preserved its original house as part of the rebuild.
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Old 10-29-2024, 10:46 AM
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Sometimes we see posts that say, "Woo! ABC, the newest chapter, is doing so well at Whatever U!" People who know the campus know that ABC may have pledged 75 and then lost 20 in the first 2 weeks and 25 more before initiation--and that member retention overall is horrendous. They may also know that the chapter's grades are far below others or that few members show up at functions.

I have never heard if a school that publishes retention rates but low ones a real thing.
If a new chapter is going to be automatically shunned by PNMs, what possesses a greek council and/or University that knows this to open their campus in the first place?

When a new chapter's grades are poor and members unmotivated, is that strictly a result of poor choice of new members by the colonizing NPC? Or does some blame go to a greek life/university that opened to a new group knowing the PNM pool was likely not up to snuff?
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