new chapter of αοπ finds warm welcome at wash u

Sororities first setting up shop on university campuses can stumble on any number of pitfalls, including unfamiliarity with regulations, disconnects with the student body, and rivalry with entrenched competitors. None seems a problem for the newly established Alpha Omicron Pi at the University of Washington in St. Louis. Representatives from the national are on campus recruiting for a January 29 bid date, and all hands seem to be on deck: they are in regular correspondence with the greek life office, and "current sororities are also helping by compiling lists of names of their friends or women they know who may be interested and passing those along to AOII."

All the general sisterliness may owe to the excellent health of the Wash U sorority system. The AOPis were selected from a pool of eleven applicants to expand onto campus because the six existing sororities were experiencing fervid demand, their memberships swelling to over 150 sisters apiece, on average. Not wanting deserving women to be turned away due to ballooning membership in limited seats, the Women's Panhellenic Association opted to open up more spaces with a new sorority.

In a side note, the Wash U Student Life That is actually the name of their student newspaper follows an odd practice of printing "Π" by means of two capital I's, as though it were the Roman numeral for two; this practice can be seen in the quotation above. While the resulting typemark vaguely resembles the letter pi, in this age of digital production, it seems hard to imagine they are at a loss for the actual character. This isn't the age of the printing press anymore, folks.

Wash U Student Life