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University Daily Kansan
Friday, May 5, 1961
Enrollment Rises
Sorority Expansion Needed?
(Editor's Note: This is the last in a series of articles on sorority pledging.)
By Kelly Smith
There was not enough room in sororities for 119 women to pledge during the last formal rush period. By 1970, the campus population will have increased by about 7,000 students.
Have sororities made plans to expand with this increase? Or will they eventually push themselves into oblivion by becoming lost in the rapidly expanding numbers of independents?
THERE ARE several possible answers.
★ Sororities could raise their quotas and accept members beyond the living capacity of their houses. This would mean the present policy of requiring a woman to live within the house as long as she is a member would have to be revised.
★ Sororities could adopt a plan of individual expansion and building programs.
★ Sororites could accept the petition of a new sorority to come to the campus, raising to 14 the number now on campus.
If sororities decided to raise their quotas beyond the living facilities of their houses, this would also mean that the University would take on the responsibility of housing the women in dormitories or approved apartments.
If individual building programs were accepted, each house would finance and build its own additions.
"THIS COULD be a difficult undertaking," commented one sorority member. "Not all houses could afford equal expansion for an additional number of women. It would be unfair."
"We couldn't possibly build for at least five years; we're still paying off our new house," said another woman.
If a new sorority was invited to the campus, the present 13 houses represented in Panhellenic Council would have to vote to approve the sorority.
"I'm willing to leave it up to the girls to find a group." Emily Taylor,
dean of women said. "The sorority must have the money to build the kind of housing required by the University, and have no discriminatory clauses in its charter."
A SORORITY interested in starting a chapter on the KU campus has to first of all, express an interest. Secondly, it has to be invited to come to KU by the Panhellenic Council, coordinating organization of campus sororities, and the parent institution, the University.
The new groups would first have to be discussed in Panhellenic, then the proposition taken back to the houses for more discussion, after which a vote would be taken based on the opinions of the entire population of campus sorority women.
Dean Taylor estimates it would take at least $250,000 for a new sorority to build a house at KU. She said some of the houses already on the campus have estimated it may be more.
Would rusheshe be interested in joining a new sorority on campus? Five freshmen who did pledge and five who did not, were asked if they would have joined a new group. Six answered that they would join the new sorority; two of the girls, who pledged said they would not, and the other two women were undecided.
"Yes, I think if the girls were nice I would have joined another group. It really didn't make much difference which one I joined; I just wanted to be in a sorority," said one.
"I WOULD like to help start a new sorority. In fact, that would be the only way I might pledge now; I'm embarrassed to go back to the ones who didn't take me in the first place," remarked another.
Has anything been done about plans for accepting a new sorority on the campus?
"No, nothing," said Dean Taylor. "The topic is discussed every year in Panhellenic, but we do not feel that there are enough girls not now in sororities willing to take the time and effort to keep another group strong on the Hill.
"This is the first time we've had such a large number of girls sign up for rush; it's an increase of 100 girls
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over last year and the year before," she said. "We can't decide on the basis of one rush period that we suddenly need another sorority."
The records show that in 1959, 43 out of 280 girls who registered for rush activities did not pledge. In 1960, 40 out of 274 did not pledge. This year 119 out of 389 did not pledge.
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Bringing another sorority to the campus would entail work and planning and cooperation between the 13 sororities now represented at KU, but it appears imperative that in order to sustain themselves, the present groups will have to encourage another to join them.
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