Please clarify your post to reflect what the newsletter says; that is, that Alpha Epsilon has been pursuing membership with AEPhi since they came into existence and is why they were founded. The way you worded it makes it sound like AEPhi pursued them, which is against NPC rules - and not everyone will click on the link for more information.

Please let me know if you feel my edit is appropriate.

:)

Very excited that Phi Mu is joining our campus in the fall. They'll be a great addition to our campus. I can't believe we're going to be at 5 NPC sororities. I went through recruitment in 2007 and there were 2!!!

Wow! That is huge growth!

Now if FGCU would only allow the sororities to build houses, lodges or provide a Panhellenic building with suites!

Looking at the Santa Clara Panhellenic FB page, their original post announcing expansion says they will officially announce by June 1st. So they left themselves a really big window.

Lecture halls for chapter meetings. Ballrooms for recruitment. I think with the addition of a 5th sorority, there may no longer be spaces large enough for recruitment. JennyJ could confirm that.

Alpha Gamma Delta will be making an extension presentation at UCLA.

WOO HOO!!!

Wow... first of all, three big chapters in Southern California in such a short time!

I'm also a little surprised that UCLA is open for expansion again, because it's my understanding that at least a couple of the chapters are a smidge smaller than the rest. A big plus is that AGD still has their house (located right next to Gamma Phi's house!), and I believe it was recently renovated to accommodate rentals.

ETA: You can GoogleMap the house (622 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles 90024). It looks like it needs paint, but I don't know how old that photo is. There's a cute enclosed courtyard at the front of the house, and the driveway was painted a few years ago by a visiting AGD chapter that used the house for workshops or a retreat or something.

^^^^

AWESOME GREAT DETAILS! :D:D:cool:

Anyone know who else is presenting at UCLA?

I have no idea, but I do know that only a handful of organization still own their homes at the university - I already mentioned AGD, but I also believe Phi Mu (646 Hilgard) and maybe Sigma Delta Tau (832 Hilgard - the house still has letters on it) still own their houses.

Sigma Kappa (726 Hilgard), Zeta Tau Alpha (720 Hilgard) and Delta Zeta (824 Hilgard) sold their homes to UCLA in 2003, which were promptly demolished and re-built into university housing.

According to old yearbooks, chapters like Phi Sigma Sigma, Alpha Xi Delta, and Alpha Omicron Pi were located at addresses that are now large apartment buildings, so I assume those properties were sold quite a while ago.

Delta Phi Epsilon and Theta Phi Alpha weren't located on Hilgard, so I would bet that those houses were converted to apartments as well.

Theta Phi Alpha will be colonizing at SUNY-Plattsburgh next Spring!! :-)

Congratulations! Also, Happy Centennial Founder's Day to Theta Phi Alpha :)

I don't see it listed here but per the Theta Phi Alpha website, they are colonizing at St. Norbert College in Wisconsin in the fall of 2012. Also, they are colonizing at Trine University in Indiana and Lynn University in Florida which had been previously announced in the fall of 2012 as well. Congratulations!

The Kappa Sigma colony at Henderson State University(AR) was chartered this weekend.

Had a little incident on the Thursday before the chartering.

http://www.hsuoracle.com/news/new-ka...9bb30f31a.html

It's actually St. Norbert College (no possession ;) ) - Theta Phi Alpha is absorbing the local, Theta Phi, which had been the Theta Phi Alpha chapter from mid-50s until the 60s. http://www.snc.edu/thetaphi/

SUNY-Plattsburgh will be a Spring 2013 colonization :)

I fixed it, thanks :)

Virginia Commonwealth University
 

The Iota Sigma Chapter of Alpha Xi Delta was installed yesterday at Virginia Commonwealth University. Congrats to all!

P.S. I think it's nice that they also initiate Mothers.

Phi Delta Theta colonized last weekend at Nebraska-Kearney (NE-B) with 25 Re-Founding Fathers.

New Mexico (NM-A) and CSUN (CA-Z) will be colonizing in the next two weeks.

Pi Beta Phi will be presenting at The University of Chicago tonight. I'm still trying to find out who else will be presenting.

what groups are at UChicago?

Alpha Omicron Pi 1986
Kappa Alpha Theta 1986
Delta Gamma 2000

Alpha Omicron Pi
Delta Gamma
Kappa Alpha Theta

Alpha Omicron Pi should be listed 1985. Delta Gamma should read 2001.

U of C is so weird, because I really don't know what it would take to be successful there. Every NPC group certainly has plenty of alumnae in Chicago, there are no housing requirements at U of C...how would a group stand out in a presentation?

Kappa Kappa Gamma is also presenting.

TKE Suspended at Southeastern Louisiana
 

LaneSig and Kevin and others:

The TKE chapter at Southeastern Louisiana is "suspended."

See

http://www.lionsroarnews.com/news/th...6#.T6BnSsiwXdI

Alpha Gamma Delta presenting today at App. State (yep, I don't know how to spell it;) )

Uniqueness far beyond mere words :D

Sometimes it's just who you know, not what you say ;)

I hope the women at Chicago are looking for an NPC group unlike any other currently on campus (maybe an "unweird" group, DBB :confused:).

For those of us who are not familiar with Chicago would you please elaborate on what the current campus culture is like? What makes it weird?

I don't know much about the NPC groups, but the campus itself is "where fun goes to die". They had to make a concerted effort a few years back to include more smiling student in their brochures.

It's a great school, academically, though, so I would guess that NPC groups see it as a prestigious place to have a chapter.

ETA: In AGDee's college search thread, she recounts her visit there as being very strange, as well.

Two years ago, Penn posted videos from 4 of their 5 extension presentations (for unknown reasons, Delta Gamma's was not posted). I found them inspiring and insightful in pinpointing possible reasons Penn made the choices they did (ZTA and ADPi). IMO ZTA uniquely coincided with October's Breast Cancer Awareness Month (it's their philanthropy); AOII was not friendly; Delta Zeta was too fast and flighty; ADPi was enthusiastic and bright. If I took away those impressions simply from videos, Penn students may have been equally wowed/left flat.

Since the Penn presentations DG, DZ and AOII have made successful extension entrances (AOII multiple times) onto other campuses.

The culture at UC is very, very academically focused. The social aspect of college definitely takes a far backseat there. Greek life just isn't all that attractive to students who choose to go there.

I went to school in Chicago and it was very common to know and meet people socially from other schools like Northwestern, UIC, LUC, DePaul (and occasionally IIT). Not so much UC.

University of Chicago's campus culture of one of intense intellectualism. It is sometimes called "The Ivy League School of the Midwest." It is hard to describe the feeling that you get when you are on campus, but it is definitely different than any other campus in the Chicago area, Northwestern included. It used to be said that you had to "marry the library for 4 years in order to get a degree from there." The students study hard and don't seem to play much; everything centers around learning.

There are many clubs and special dorms and an "International House" for the many multi-cultural students from other countries that go there. It is just a very different and unusual campus for Greek life because it is so intellectual. You have to ask yourself, "What do they do for fun there?" It seems like all the students do there is study. Is this bad? Not necessarily. But it would also contribute to a very different emphasis for chapters than a more socially oriented university. This being said, I am glad that both Pi Phi and Kappa are presenting and that Greek Life there seems to be expanding once again. :)

This place sounds awful. It also reminds me of one of the great lessons I learned through college and Greek life - that your academic performance alone won't equal success. The connections you make, and how you work your connections, are an incredibly important factor in the business world.

I'm curious if UC has a robust secret society/eating house/a capella group culture like many of the Ivies have. In my opinion, it's those kinds of networks that breed leaders and the kind of rabid alumni who build the reputation and networking benefits of a university.

ETA - barbino posted as I was typing, and addressed several of the issues I mentioned.

I would love to have a Gamma Phi chapter here for the prestige and quality of women that the chapter would (hopefully) produce. And on the bright side, it sounds like they wouldn't be much of a risk management concern!