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<p>Until 1985, the University of Chicago had no sororities. An old campus legend attributes this fact to the plight of a student named Ida Noyes, said to have been driven to an early death by her failed attempts to join a sorority:</p>
<p>[The</a> University of Chicago Magazine: August 2004](<a href=“http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0408/features/index-print.shtml]The”>http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0408/features/index-print.shtml)</p>