Word: thetas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Theta members used to stand on Quincy street during Orientation Week, handing out information cards to first-years walking from the Yard to the Union, but have since been barred from the practice by University administrators...
...since Kappa Alpha Theta's Harvard-Radcliffe chapter was established in January, 1993, its membership has risen ten-fold. And this November, a second sorority, Delta Gamma, established a chapter at Harvard...
According to former Theta president Jennifer M. Brosnahan '95, the purpose of the sorority is simply to provide "a close network of girl friends"--and not to provide a forum for political discussion...
Because sororities cannot advertise on campus, virtually all of the 44 members of Theta and the 17 women who belong to Delta Gamma say they found out about their sororities by word of mouth. Many members were friends before they joined. Sorority sisters tend to live in the same houses--predominantly river houses such as Eliot, Lowell and Mather--and tend to be upper-class students...
...fact, because spreading the word to new students is often haphazard, there were only two first-year Thetas last semester. Jennifer S. Joel '98, one of the incoming rush chairs, says she found out about Theta simply because she was chatting with a woman during Common Casting who turned out to be a member...