Sorority question...please be brutally honest

Southlander
Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:18:48 +0000

I’ll say it out loud - at UA, sororities that take only a small number of non-Southerners - Alpha Gamma Delta and Kappa Delta. But that is changing.
Jewish sorority - there is only one, Sigma Delta Tau, and it is no longer exclusively Jewish. It has been a very long time since they participated in formal recruitment. They used to have a house on sorority row but had not lived in it for a long time. They met at the Hillel Foundation and leased the house to various other sororities and fraternities who were renovating. SDT sold their house to Alpha Phi a couple of years ago. Last year, they moved to a university-owned house on new fraternity row (an area on the east side of campus that was new in the 1950s when fraternity houses began to be built there). This year, SDT will participate in the first round of recruitment only, and host rercruitment parties after formal recruitment is finished.
All the sororities except SDT are on 2 streets next to each other on the south side of campus.
If you don’t get rec letters for some houses you still go to their parties. Not getting rec letters means those sororities will not be familiar with you when you walk through the door and not as likely to keep you on their invite-back lists. You can still have a successful recruitment without rec letters. But why throw a stumbling block in your way?
There is no CC primer…recruitment is a little different at every school. But read the sorority threads in this forum. You might also want to visit another forum named greekchat.com. There are also several blog sites that have good info. Recruitment at big SEC schools is NOT the same as recruitment at small colleges, or colleges in the north, or west.


Note: UA used to also have Delta Phi Epsilon and Alpha Epsilon Phi. AEPhi closed in the late 1960s, DPhiE in the early 1970s. Reason - lots of Jewish kids atteded UA from the 1920s (I think) up through the 1960s. Many NE schools refused entrance based on faith, and a UA president at some point discovered this and personally invited these children and their parents to check out UA, where they were welcomed. But when attitudes and entrance requirements changed in the NE, our Jewish enrollment shrank.
Since you are in NY, I hope you understand that Alabama simply does not have as high a percentage of Jewish residents as NY. Jewish girls are, to my knowledge, actually found in all the sororities at UA.

NOTE: NONE of this applies to fraternities. NONE of it!!