Wearing their signature golden key badges, Kappa representatives strutted their sorority’s stuff—including hundreds of thousand of dollars in scholarship money as well as their commitment to philanthropy.

“We truly are leaders: leaders in our crew teams, leaders in our governments, leaders in society,” said Meu, who added that her heart was pounding with excitement as she looked over the Kappa prospects.

Kappa will hold their rush events jointly with Theta and DG beginning in the spring semester.

Last year, Theta and DG offered bids to 25 and 24 women, respectively. About 120 had attended recruitment events.

The numbers reflect a growing demand for female social opportunities on campus.

“There is a need for more female social organizations,” DG President Hannah E. Kenser ’04 said. “Women are starting to make efforts to have their own places to socialize, to make their niche in the Harvard social scene.”

Last year, the new female social clubs Pleiades and the Sabliere Society tapped into the same demand for female socializing.

Pleiades was founded to fulfill the mission of making more female social space available on campus, according to President and co-founder Melissa E. Miller ’04.

“Clearly, a lot are sprouting up, but they wouldn’t be sprouting up if there weren’t a real demand for it,” Miller said.

The Sabliere Society’s founders sought to fill a different niche, taking their members into Boston as well as holding on-campus activities.

“It’s always really good to have girl clubs on campus,” the Society’s newly-elected President Angie J. Thebaud ’04 said. “There are certainly a large number of girls who aren’t in social groups but who would like to be, Kappa will definitely have a large demand.”

—Staff writer Elizabeth W. Green can be reached at egreen@fas.harvard.edu.