sigma kappa

by: WonderingApr 1, 2015 11:15:51 AM

Anyone have a mom or aunt that went to IU when Sigma Kappa was here for information on how the chapter was?

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#1 by: Obviously Apr 1, 2015 12:58:46 PM

They weren't that good if they had to close for numbers.

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by: OpApr 1, 2015 3:27:59 PM

AOPi closed around the same time and reopened. They're doing pretty well now.

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#2 by: Yes Apr 1, 2015 1:31:13 PM

They were considered lower tier

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#3 by: so what Apr 1, 2015 3:58:04 PM

It doesn't matter what they were like then, it only matters now. When my aunt was here AEPhi was a really good chapter. not so much now. And Alpha Phi was just an upper middle tier chapter. So who really cares? She was an ADPi and said they were rivals with Sigma Kappa. She also said they didn't close for numbers, their housing board went bankrupt and had to sell the house. There were no unhoused sororities back then. ADPi, AXID, ASA and Tri Sigma lived in Aston with Pi Kappa Phi. (Pi Kapps was lower tier then too, by the way.) AXiD got a house, the one they live in now and ADPI got their house the same year a lot of chapters closed. An unhoused sorority would not have survived on campus, so they closed. In the same school year IU lost AOII, Sigma Kappa, ASA and Tri Sigma all due to the fact that Greek Life just wasn't as popular as it was before. The numbers couldn't support the number of sororities and would never have supported an unhoused chapter at the time.

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by: HowApr 3, 2015 5:45:14 PM

Does a house corp go bankrupt? I don't doubt that it happened, but it seems odd as SK was one of the older chapters there (1918).

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by: yeaApr 3, 2015 8:41:17 PM

Not all housing corps are supported by national. Our older chapters are independent and still run locally. If we built a new house and fell behind on the payments, then we would lose our chapter. That's what happened to them, one of our housing corp ladies was on our board back then and told us about it when SK presented last spring. We almost did not renovate our house in the mid 90's because of this. We didn't know if the number of girls going through recruitment would support the additional costs.

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