asa coming to campus

Just checked and apparently this is the FIRST ASA chapter in the PAC 12. Wut. Why would they pick Arizona? Did they do any research on the greek life culture? We have a cut throat greek life. They'll never last. Shame.

They're obviously insane, but I think the problem is no other sorority wants to come on here! Getting a small weak national with no money or house won't fix our problem

I don't blame other sororities for not wanting to come here. But ASA is setting themselves up for failure. Are they really this stupid? We need to make more positive changes to our greek system, such as supporting our weaker sororities, and stop kicking off fraternities and adding new ones like they mean nothing.

They are coming on campus knowing they won't have a house.

How about instead of trying to convince everyone on greek rank that you're "great", you actually put a little effort into your appearances and recruitment? Then you may actually BECOME great...

AXO IS S LARGE NATUONALLY KNOWN SORORITY WHO ALREADY OWNED THEIR HOUSE. THEY TOOK ALL OUR RRJECTS WHEN THEY OPENED, WELL EXCEPT MAYBE TRI DELT REJRCTS. HAHA ASA IS NOTHING.

I know right? DZ already has a record of failure here though. Twice they've been here and closed for low numbers and they had a house too.

I think this is going to be a repeat of Zets Tau Alpha because they only lasted a couple of years in the early 90's. No other Arizona chapters and no name recognition and no house is a recipe for disaster.

I'm so confused. How does a college add in a new sorority? How does rush work for them? Does any girl just sign up and say they want to be in that sorority or is their rushing for it? If so, how is there rushing for a sorority with no members?

same way a fraternity does. Nationals comes in, recruits a bunch of people, helps them get set up, and then turns the chapter over.

The real key is a strong alum base/ national group.

So basically for a new sorority to come to campus, there needs to be an opening for expansion. Panhellenic needs to approve it, and then sororities will send people from nationals to make a presentation to Panhellenic as to why they should pick their sorority to be able to colonize at their school. In our case, I believe ASA was the only one to present, so they weren't in competition with anyone for the spot. Panhellenic says, "ok" and then their nationals gets to work in planning their colonization. Although in ASA's case they call it an "emerging chapter" rather than a colony.

They send girls from nationals, or other schools to our campus and it usually starts with a table on the mall. They pass out information, advertise their sorority, etc. They'll most likely make an instagram and start following girls who aren't in sororities.

They may have an informational day during set 1 of rush. Then after formal recruitment is over, they'll begin recruiting members. You'll sign up to go to their events, and they may call you in for an interview. Then they have their "bid day" which occurs several weeks after regular bid day.

That's pretty much how it works.

That doesn't seem likely, they were only here five years back in the 90's and did not even have the chance to establish strong ties. The only other consideration may be ZTA is known for strong support of any housing they have under one big housing umbrella. Just speculating, but maybe if ZTA had a house here before they still own it? Or a ZTA house was bought-out by the university when ZTA left with the promise the university would sell them a different one should they return?

I heard this specifically from someone high on the Greek system. They basically told U of A if they find them a location they will pay arizona a good amount to go with it. ZTA is massive. But the only problem here in Arizona is that reality sucks and it's getting harder and harder for the Greek system to grow.

They never had a house here. They are trying to get at NAU right now though

UPDATE......ZTA was NOT invited at NAU. DPhiE got the invitation to colonize.

Another insane decision to bring a weak sauce sorority with no alums or chapters around.

NAU doesn't have specifically large sorority houses, just a dorm, so NAU inviting DPhiE is perfectly acceptable.

omg stop you're embarrassing yourself.

Stuff like this is going to kill the colony (please stop with "emerging chapter") before it gets started. I hope this is a troll and not an actual person from ASA nationals.

just stop. we know who wrote this & who you are. don't you have better things to do (like your job?) you can't force a bottom tier no-name group to succeed here. you forced it on us, are you happy now?

Correct me if I am wrong.

But isn't A Sig about to get kicked? Also, they have been on campus before and have tried many times to get going again.

Also fraternities are always getting kicked off, if there wasn't a stream of colonization then there would be no fraternities left. If you look back like 10-15 years, the only houses who haven't been kicked off and recolonized are like SAE, AEPi, BETA and Phi Delt.

Everyone else: Sig Chi, Pike, KS, Fiji, Dchi, Pikapp, Delt, KA, TKE, PhiPsi, Sammy, ZBT, Sig Ep, Chi Phi, A Sig, Theta Chi, Delta Sig etc have been kicked and recolonized within the last 15 years.

This is about the Alpha Sigma Alpha (also called Alpha Sigs) sorority, not the ASig fraternity. Alpha Sigs have never before been at UAZ.

You really need to stop posting here. It took two clicks to figure this out (who you are and how ASA got to Arizona). We are a lot smarter than you think. And fyi two other NPCs (actually three but who's counting) were interested: Alpha Xi Delta, Delta Zeta (both were going to present - do the research) and Zeta Tau Alpha.

Nice try blaming us "poor attitude" - right... you're starting to look like United Airlines now.

After Arizona opened for expansion in November 2015, Delta Zeta was the sole presenter of interest. Sole. They intentionally withdrew their interest in part due to the great housing issues plaguing Arizona. If two other groups toured campus, they did not present.