What chapter would you like to see on campus next

ASA has no big chapters on the south. Their biggest chapter is in Delaware not even at a big 10 or pac12 school 🫠

Their chapters in the big 10 are lackluster

asa has a big chapter at JMU it’s their “top sorority” a lot of girls from my high school went there and this particular girl i cannot see accepting a sorority thag wasn’t considered “top”

Yes. Widely known school for their Greek life, JMU.

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I think AXiD would be the best pick

JMU’s top sorority is actually sigma kappa, my best friend goes there

The sorority system is actually pretty big there the school is just newly joining the FBS so it’s not as well known for things

I agree alpha xi would be the most likely candidate, and if not them then tri sigma…. The rest of the Panhellenic sororities do not have enough national support to thrive and be successful at UA. Honestly though I feel like there is more than enough chapters. Being a new chapter puts you at a big disadvantage with recruitment. Your nationals is basically going to determine the type of girls the chapter will be like based on who they get to start the chapter. Those girls have to market themselves so well and establish a reputation where it won’t seem like they’re just taking girls who were dropped from recruitment and get a ton of people to join before they could successfully do formal recruitment, and they would need a house that is not only attractive to live in and claim, but realistically be able to have enough members who would join to pay the mortgage and cover the fees of maintaining it. Newer chapter like Aphi and DG are large and notable so they were able to make starting successful chapters possible, but tbh even for them it still sounds like a very stressful thing to accomplish. SK is still gaining momentum, but they are capable of being fully functional and giving girls an enjoyable sorority experience. ASA, DphiE, AEPhi, Phi Sig, SDT would just not simply be able to provide the resources and financial support to make that possible.

The difference is SDT has a big ALABAMA alumni base. AZD could possibly too but we missed out on inviting them back in time for their members from the 80s to be motivated to get their chapter back on campus by the time their daughters came to rush. So DG and SK had huge campaigns to raise money for their houses. And their alums delivered! I think SDT and AZD could do the same. But SDT locally just isn’t motivated and it’s annoying.

the JMU girlies on the alabama page…

PSS is soooo NY and NJ. Which is fine we have a lot of PNMs from there. But no alabama/Georgia/texas/MS/Louisiana girl would go for them.

Phi sig and DPhiE are big Long Island energy

How do you know they “did well”? We’re you here when they were in the 70s? SDT hasn’t done formal rush since even before I was born!

They did well because they were the two largest sororities on campus at the time. No, I was not here when DPhiE closed in 1973, but the mothers and grandmothers and other Bama alumnae who were will tell you all about it if you care to hear. The same thing happened to DPhiE at UGA and they rechartered again 5 or 6 years ago.

I know but they literally won’t. They’ve been asked a number of times. Before SK came they were asked if they wanted to “re establish” themselves on the row.

It's not they don't want to. They've been talking about moving back to the row for years, but they can't get their numbers high enough to make it happen.

They can’t get their nUmbers up because they don’t do formal rush or have a nice house. Sigma kappa had 0 girls and they recolonized. SDT could recolonize but they won’t. That’s the t.

For SDT to “re establish” on the row, they’d have to force current girls into alum status and do a whole recolonization like SK. SDT doesn’t want to make their actives go early alum if they don’t want to. It’s actually considerate.

Their alumnae give them tons of support and have a huge emotional investment in helping them stay open. One of their charter members went on to serve as SDT's national president and holds a place of honor and respect in the organization. (One of their most prestigious undergraduate awards is named in her memory.)

I think their national would prefer it if they could compete on equal footing with the other houses, but starting from scratch would be a huge undertaking, both in terms of money and PR, not to mention they would get tons of backlash from the alumnae.

And bottom of the bottom there. They need some success at a large southern rush before colonizing.

Tri Sigma struggles at big Greek schools. At Auburn they're basically like SDT here. They've struggled for years at Mizzou and are currently down to less than 100 members. They closed down at UNC last year, and at UVA they were reorganized a few years back (their national made the actives go alum and recruited a new chapter from scratch).

Lol who?

I don’t believe those apart of the 26 Panhellenic sororities, I think those are like services sororities? At least Theta phi alpha is

Alpha sigma tau is npc, northern

They both are….

sdt is an awesome house at schools like miami and big 10s they could be so cool at bama - but for what it’s worth they seem like such a genuine house here so why change

That’s great and all, but we all have to take part in things as a part of Panhellenic, so can my chapter just opt out of stuff too? Like I don’t really feel like submitting our service hours and activities it’s a lot of work with sooooo many members. If SDT can just opt out of stuff, can my house too?

AZD was bullied off twice. They are never coming back.

How was AZD bullied off

AXiD was on campus from 1927 to 1972 and again from 1981 to 1988. They were the bottom house both times they were on campus, and other Greeks were extremely cruel to them over the years. Not surprisingly, it affected their ability to recruit, and eventually they had to leave campus due to low numbers.

AXiD presented with DG and Alpha Phi during the last big extension in 2007. Supposedly they're not interested in trying again, but they're the best choice out of all the NPC groups that aren't currently on campus.

I doubt they would want to gamble on colonizing here. The chapter at Mizzou is on its last legs, but they've been in over their head financially for years trying to pay for their house. Auburn was different because they didn't have housing to think about.

Southern? Virginia is not exactly the deep South, lol. They are bottom tier at UVA and always will be. UVA students are extremely status conscious because they were all in the top 10% of their graduating class, and think they're too good for Tri Sig.

They’re top tier at VCU and ECU and decent at other schools

VCU and ECU, please stop, lol! Who cares about VCU and ECU? Are you trying to compare those schools to Bama?

It literally doesn’t matter what school I’m just saying they have strong chapters. Just because they wouldn’t be top tier here (I mean how does any new chapter do that here where everyone just cares about being old row). doesn’t mean they couldn’t have a strong chapter here

AXiD and SDT could. Maybe tri sig or Deeph. But it’s a huge investment and outside of the south, Greek life #s are going down.

AXiD seems like the best choice since they've presented before and their USC chapter has been doing pretty well so far. The question is whether they want to try again.

DPhiE got turned down when they presented in 2013, but they wouldn't have tried in the first place if they didn't think they could pull it off. Their only notable failure in recent years was the Georgia Southern chapter.

Tri Sigma may not want to press their luck based on how badly the Mizzou chapter has struggled.

I agree! There is no group left that has either the social status or money to come here, so let's build up SK and Theta.

Yeah, I hear the AXiD talk and they have some decent chapters at big schools, but it's a long way from being a middle house at a random B10 school to trying to compete at Alabama.