Mu Tau Rho
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Mu Tau Rho is a college sorority based in St. Louis, Missouri. It was founded in 2006 for student-mothers at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. It has filled a niche not commonly filled by sororities. "I wanted to be in a sorority so bad," said founder Danielle Cooney, a 22-year-old sophomore math major. "Then I had my son. I didn't have a baby sitter to do all that." [1]
Cooney, whose son Jordan is 3, soon realized that other women on the Missouri-St. Louis campus -- a commuter school where the average student is 27 -- sought those bonds of sisterhood while struggling to rear and provide for their children. Mu Tau Rho stands for "Mothers Together in Parenting," members said. The uppercase Greek letter "rho" is identical to the English capital "P." [2]
One of the few sororities aside from Mu Tau Rho catering to student mothers is Mu Omicron Mu (whose initials spell "MOM") at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. That chapter, formed in 2005, was developed as much out of financial necessity as an alternative for students with adult responsibilities by sorority president Tiffanie Stuckey, 25, a senior and single mother of a 6-year-old daughter. [3]
