2015/2016 Colonies/Expansions/Charters/Closures

[BlueCarnation]

Originally Posted by Cheerio

What does it mean when Union College, which is open for expansion, is "visited" by Alpha Chi Omega, Kappa Delta, and Alpha Epsilon Phi? Are these the groups making formal presentations?

The phrase "visited our campus" is used on both the sorority extension twitter, and the Union Greeks twitter, by Union College itself. The photos shown on instagram appear similar to those seen in other campus presentations.

On May 3, our HQ posted pics from the "visit" to Union and said we were "grateful for the opportunity to present..." I took that to mean that we did a formal presentation.

[Cheerio]

Originally Posted by Cheerio

What does it mean when Union College, which is open for expansion, is "visited" by Alpha Chi Omega, Kappa Delta, and Alpha Epsilon Phi? Are these the groups making formal presentations?

The phrase "visited our campus" is used on both the sorority extension twitter, and the Union Greeks twitter, by Union College itself. The photos shown on instagram appear similar to those seen in other campus presentations.

Originally Posted by BlueCarnation

On May 3, our HQ posted pics from the "visit" to Union and said we were "grateful for the opportunity to present..." I took that to mean that we did a formal presentation.

Thank you for all of your clarifications to the college's phrasing, and for mentioning the definite use of the phrase "...opportunity to present..." by Alpha Chi Omega toward their recent Union College visit.

[GoldBows]

Delta Phi Epsilon will be colonizing at Cal State LA in Fall 2016!

[Cheerio]

Originally Posted by GoldBows

Delta Phi Epsilon will be colonizing at Cal State LA in Fall 2016!

Wow! How many Fall 2016 colonies does that make for the purple and gold? Congratulations!

[texasprincess]

All 7 NPC sororities at Stanford University have approved the formation of an exploratory committee for possibly adding a new sorority to the community!

[ZTAngel]

Zeta will be colonizing at Seton Hall this fall: https://www.zetataualpha.org/cms400m...=5826&tlmid=17

[Sciencewoman]

Originally Posted by texasprincess

All 7 NPC sororities at Stanford University have approved the formation of an exploratory committee for possibly adding a new sorority to the community!

Promising news!

[LaneSig]

The Alpha Gamma Rho chapter at Oregon State University has been closed due to RMF.

http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/loc...cd2c1f1a7.html


Alpha Kappa Lambda has been invited to colonize at Indiana University in Fall '16.

http://akl.org/2016/03/23/expansion-...ity-fall-2016/

[shadokat]

2 I believe....Penn State and Cal State LA

Originally Posted by Cheerio

Wow! How many Fall 2016 colonies does that make for the purple and gold? Congratulations!

[ChioLu]

According to sorority extension on Twitter, Bryant University has voted on extension.
Where is Bryant University? I wondered that too. Smithfield, Rhode Island.
Current NPC groups on campus are AOPi, DZ & Tri Sigma.

[clemsongirl]

Originally Posted by ChioLu

According to sorority extension on Twitter, Bryant University has voted on extension.
Where is Bryant University? I wondered that too. Smithfield, Rhode Island.
Current NPC groups on campus are AOPi, DZ & Tri Sigma.

It's a lovely campus very well known for it's business school in Rhode Island. Without knowing much about the demographics I'm surprised Greek life isn't bigger-there's not too much to do in that corner of the state.

[APhi4Ever]

I wonder if Alpha Phi will try to recolonize at Bryant. It was our Theta Beta chapter.

[ASTalumna06]

Love Bryant. My grandfather went to school there

[ChioLu]

Originally Posted by texasprincess

All 7 NPC sororities at Stanford University have approved the formation of an exploratory committee for possibly adding a new sorority to the community!

Wow - there are 6 groups who would love to recolonize at Stanford - and 4 are SINGLE LETTER chapters: DG, GPhiB, AOPi & SK. The other 2: AXO, SDT.

Question about 3 existing chapters at Stanford: Theta, Kappa & Chi O all had chapters Stanford very early on (but closed when Standford banned sororities in 1944, with the ban lifted in 1977). Does anyone know why those recolonizations don't have a "lower" original chapter name? Like, would Theta's original chapter designation have been the Alpha Alpha chapter? (That 1 seemed to be missing from the list of their chapters on Wikipedia & would fit the original colonization timeline.)

[clemsongirl]

Originally Posted by ChioLu

Wow - there are 6 groups who would love to recolonize at Stanford - and 4 are SINGLE LETTER chapters: DG, GPhiB, AOPi & SK. The other 2: AXO, SDT.

Question about 3 existing chapters at Stanford: Theta, Kappa & Chi O all had chapters Stanford very early on (but closed when Standford banned sororities in 1944, with the ban lifted in 1977). Does anyone know why those recolonizations don't have a "lower" original chapter name? Like, would Theta's original chapter designation have been the Alpha Alpha chapter? (That 1 seemed to be missing from the list of their chapters on Wikipedia & would fit the original colonization timeline.)

I'm not in any of those orgs, so that said:

Theta's chapter name at Stanford is Phi Deuteron, which would make it a single-letter chapter that was recolonized. KKG skipped all chapters starting with Alpha after their Alpha chapter, so they went straight from Omega to Beta Alpha in naming chapters. Beta Eta Deuteron fits that timeline as well. I think you know how their system works but for those who don't, Chi O has an interesting system where the second letter of the chapter name starts at Alpha and goes downward through Beta, Gamma, etc, but the first letter starts at Psi and goes upward. Nu Alpha would make it among the first chapters to have two letters for a chapter designation, I believe.

As to why those organizations decided to name their chapters the way they did, I couldn't tell you With the exception of accidentally skipping Xi when naming our single-letter chapters and then going back to it a few years later, ADPi goes alphabetically with no skips.