UF Recruitment and Bid Day

[redlady2]

Today is Bid Day at UF! Saw something on Twitter from a Phi Mu saying they were expecting 103 women on the lawn which seems just enormous! (UF quota had been 50-65ish for at least a decade!). Any news? Realized there wasn't really a UF recruitment thread on here!

[irishpipes]

103? I know AOII took 71, but I don't know what quota was.

[ladybug12]

I think that freshman quota was 55 and Phi Mu matched 77. Upperclass quota15 and matched 26.

Sounds like they had an amazing recruitment! Congratulations!!!!

[ChioLu]

How many registered?
And 16 GLOs at Florida!

[redlady2]

Saw on Facebook that: Theta took 72. KKG took 73. DG took 79.

[ggforever]

UF had more than 1400 go through recruitment.

[ChioLu]

From the NM pic on the UF Chi O facebook page, I'm counting
71 new members! (unless there was a hidden head)

[redlady2]

With quota at 71, that's a big increase from 63 two years ago. When UF expanded in 2002 to bring on Delta Zeta quota was in the fifties. Most of the houses sleep about that many. Would be exciting to see another chapter come on if there was space for a house...

[ggforever]

Quota was 55 for primary (freshman) and 15 secondary. Lots of Quota Additions at some chapters due to the large numbers. There is talk of extension but it is still some years off. As with many schools in the SEC (probably across the country) in order to compete, a house is mandatory to have a successful colonization at UF. Right now the only land identified is on fraternity row and there are some fraternities that are in line there. There are old houses near sorority row that look as though they should be torn down but the houses are deemed "historic" so cannot be torn demolished for new construction.

Unfortunately, UF is not as supportive as Alabama when it comes to supporting greek housing.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by ggforever

There are old houses near sorority row that look as though they should be torn down but the houses are deemed "historic" so cannot be torn demolished for new construction.

Can they be altered in any way? My mind of course thinks it would be super cool to have a sorority house with an "old wing" and "new wing." I realize my mind is not the norm though

[DubaiSis]

I think most older sorority houses have an old part and a new part. Mine certainly did. Whether the city would allow you to keep the facade and build a monster behind it is a whole different issue.

[ggforever]

I am sorry that I mislead you. It is not the sorority houses that cannot be torn down or remodeled. Most of the houses have added on. DDD built a brand new house a few years ago and KD just added on what looks like a third floor on the front of the house and a new front facade. It is the properties that surround the sorority row area that have OLD single family homes that I was talking about. They would be prime for someone to purchase and build. However, the city has declared some of the structures as historic and it is my understanding they cannot be torn down.

[DubaiSis]

No worries. There is definitely a positive and a negative to historic registries. I used to work for a guy who worked really hard to get complete dumps put on the historic register. So, great. Thanks for that. Now they can't get torn down and turned into parking lots (which was what was needed in that particular community and would have vastly improved the neighborhood). It probably depends on if it's actual NHR or some sort of local status thing that they can get around. A shiny new sorority house built in a traditional style has to be preferable to a 100 year old single family dump in the middle of campus.

[honeychile]

Alpha Delta Pi took 75 New Members!

[SigKapSweetie]

Originally Posted by honeychile

Alpha Delta Pi took 75 New Members!

I believe this is actually a picture of ADPi at the University of Central Florida. ADPi's house at UF is white.