[16718] in APO-L
APO, Harvard & The Ivies.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Finder)
Sun Apr 27 06:13:04 1997
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 06:10:56 -0400
Reply-To: Randy Finder <naraht@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
From: Randy Finder <naraht@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
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I just finished looking through the National web page and the web pages
for the Ivies and here is the results (going roughly from North to
South). For a more complete description for each case talk to the
respective sectional chair/RD
Dartmouth: Never has had a chapter. School however has a healthy Social
Greek system including a mosiac of National & Local, Fraternities,
Sororities and co-ed frat/sor/societies. No reason to believe that
we couldn't come on campus, just apparently no one has done so.
Harvard: Never has had a chapter. School has a variety of rules that make
extension to there, somewhere between very difficult and impossible.
These include both rules against fraternities (voted on by faculty senate)
and rules against student organizations being under any level of external
control. Also they have a community service house on campus. I'm told that
Circle-K changed its National by-laws to allow multi school chapters in
order to have Harvard students join the chapter at MIT. The governor of
Massachusetts said he'd try to help in his speech at the APO nat. conv. in
Boston('92) at the final banquet. (You see how far that got). I'm sure
there are people on section 96/Region I staff who can tell you more.
Brown: Inactive: Xi Eta Chapter. At my rough guess, that means Late '50s.
I've heard that it is a reasonable extension target and it has an active
Social greek system.
Yale: Active: Delta Nu Chapter. Reactivated this decade, not sure when it
went under the first time.
Cornell: Active: Gamma. Strong chapter,continuously active since chartering.
Columbia: Inactive: Lambda Theta. Rough Guess: Early '50s. Active social
greek system. I have never heard of any extension effort there, but section
97 was until recently weak and understaffed.
Princeton: Inactive: Nu Upsilon. Rough guess: Mid/Late '50s. No Social
greek system apparent on the web page, but has them according to Baird's
Manual of American College Fraternities. Haven't heard of this one as an
extension target either.
Penn: Active: Delta Zeta. Reactivated this decade, not sure when it went
inactive.
All of the Ivies without active chapters are in Region I, so Cheryl Smith
(Region I RD) would be the person to ask for more specific info on any of
these. Of the 5 without active chapters, only Harvard looks ugly and I'm
sure that if you wanted to help raise the number of active chapters in
the Ivy League that the effort would be MUCH better spent aimed at one of
the others(Dartmouth, Brown,Columbia or Princeton[One per region I
section, hm.])
YiLFS
Randy Finder
APO National web page team and former section 84 extension chair.
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