Bringing more sororities to Rutgers
 

At Rutgers University there are only 7 social sororities but over 20 social fraternities. There are SO many students here at RU, and those 7 sororities all have a lot of members. Some didn't even have a pledge class because they were too big! How do we expand the number of sororities on campus here? It'd be great if anybody could help.

Thanks!

Swerving/

@ the bold -- Does this even happen? Isn't quota determined by the number of students going through recruitment (not the size of the sororities)? I haven't read about sororities not taking pledge classes since I've been on GC.

/swerving

You mean an informal COB/spring pledge class? That's not unusual.

Are you a sorority member?

Guessing it's informal/COB/etc.

I thought there are way over 7 social sororities with active chapters at Rutgers University.

Is the OP only asking about NPC sororities?

Makes sense. Thanks.

Probably

ETA: Yea, Rutgers has 58 GLOs. I doubt the OP couldn't find what she was looking for in one of the 18 sororities.

And yeah, OP is narrowly looking at NPC sororities here. My guess is "I want to join but the one I wanted didn't have COB and I didn't rush/got cut and I want to be in one but it'd just be easier to start one."

/lays a dollar on the table.

Geesh, I don't like it when people say there are only x number of sororities when the person really means that there are only x number of a particular council or conference of sororities.

You all need to stop jumping to conclusions.

I am a member of a fraternity here. So I am a guy.

Also http://getinvolved.rutgers.edu/frate...ities/chapters
What I meant by 7 sororities, I meant 7 social sororities that are not limited to a specific group. So I am NOT including a group like "Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority" because they are a Latin Sorority.

So yes NPC sororities...

now please enough of the criticizing?

Oh dear, limited to a specific group? Really?

Anyway, it's an NPC process, panhellenic on your campus takes care of it. If you want more NPCs then that's how it happens.

Stop worrying about their new member classes.

Chill.


Ohhhhh...LOL...forreal?!

Or you could go back to the Greek Life Office at Rutgers instead of coming to Greekchat. Good luck.

Why are you worried about what the sororities are doing?

And if you are Greek, why don't you ask the women you know?

FYI -- Lambda Theta Alpha is a social sorority, so if you meant NPC sorority, you should have said that.

It's too late for this fuckery *yawn*

Same shit, different toilet. "Greek Life" and "sorority" and "fraternity" are synonymous with NPC and IFC.

Thank you for giving me some useful information, I truly appreciate it!

And while you're at it, be sure to tell your fellow Rutgers Greeks that there are only 7 sororities at Rutgers. Greek Unity and all.

Didn't Rutgers just add Phi Sigma Sigma? Would a school be open for expansion again that quickly?

Get off your high horse, I made a mistake. Happy sorry to disrespect any other organization. Now get over it

I think they would be, especially since Phi Sigma Sigma took over the Sig Ep House last year and Sig ep's have kind of died off ever since. It seems to be that fraternities around here can not survive too well without a house. I mean technically they are still around, their numbers are very low. There are many more factors to this but in the end my main point is greek life is slowly dieing here at Rutgers and what better way to revitalize it than to bring a NPC organization. Those are the ones that typically get publicized the most, and catch the interest of non greeks to join greek life.

You finally admitted that you made a mistake. Congratulations. Now fuck off.

Or you could just have admitted your mistake without copping an attitude.
But that's cool, tell the person who pointed out your mistake they're handling it wrong. You showed them! Darn angry "specific groups" always demanding to be recognized.

That is not how NPC expansion works.

Please explain

Perhaps the Greek Life Office could have explained this to the OP.

YES. i'm gonna use this.

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Why Not?!
LTA is the Only Way!!
Just to clear something up, Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Incorporated is Latin by Tradition, Not by Definition. We believe in empowering the Universal Woman no matter her race, creed, orientation, etc. We are an Academic Sorority and we do hold social, cultural, charitable, and educational events. Our Epsilon chapter at Rutgers was founded in 1987 and still goes hard!!


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OK, not counting the NALFO/NPHC groups, there are 26 fraternities. If some of those are very low in members, then having 7 sororities is probably just right.

Sororities use quota and total to (try to) make them all the same size. Fraternities don't do that however. You can have one with 100 members and one with 15 members on the same campus, and they can both be perfectly healthy.

What campuses strive for is parity of number of members between IFC & NPC...in other words, you want to try and have (example) 300 fraternity members and 300 sorority members. Typically the way those numbers are distributed is going to lean toward fewer sororities than fraternities.

It sounds more like the fraternities need to get their shit together and stop playing musical houses. This happened at my campus and it just made things a mess. Also, sororities do not want to colonize on a campus where the fraternities are unhealthy.

The college Panhellenic Council follows the procedures outlined in the NPC Manual of Information, commonly known as the Green Book. They do some research on recruitment numbers and membership numbers and then talk with their NPC Area Adviser and the individual NPC groups' NPC Delegate and other national officers. Then they vote on whether or not to expand. Once the vote has been approved, the college PH notifies NPC that the campus is open for expansion. NPC advises the groups not currently on that campus that it is open for expansion. THose groups then decide if they want to send an information packet to the college. Once the deadline for packets has passed, the college PH picks the groups they want to invite to present. After all the presentations are done the college PH votes which one to extend a bid to.

As you can see, it's a very complicated and proscribed process. One doesn't just add a group. You might talk with the Greek Adviser and ask if they are looking into expansion and why/why not for an answer specific to your campus.

I don't think we should jump on this poor guy because he asked a question. Ghettobacon, it really is a matter of being voted on by Panhellenic. DrPhil, you raise a good point that sorority should not be the same as "NPC" but, sadly-that's how some people look at it. We (Greeks in general) need to change that kind of thinking. We need more unity-building types of activities.

Ghettobacon, you should consider talking to any of your friends in Panhellenic. I can understand why a guy in a fraternity (which I assume falls under the IFC on his campus) would want more sororities for social functions. That makes sense. Hopefully, if sororities are bursting at the seams at Rutgers, there can be an expansion. Talk to some of your friends about the possibility but, there is really nothing YOU or I can do about it. It has to be voted on to even consider allowing other NPC sororities on campus. I hope that helps!

People are responding to him. He could've taken this question straight to Greek Life and not had to worry about GC responses at all.

Uh huh. In the meantime, for the next 100 years of my life, I will respond as I have for the past 16 years of my life.

I agree that he could have taken it to Greek life but, I think we may have all been a little bit too harsh to this guy. As far as living for the next 100 years (when you figure out how to do that-let me know, lol), I agree that you should respond with that belief we need to respect the other councils. I wish more people thought like you, on this matter. Hopefully someday more people will start recognizing that Greek life encompasses more than just the NPC and IFC. I sincerely hope it happens.

Meh, no one was being harsh until he started acting like a dick. All we did was try to figure out the situation at his school.

Nah, gotta be hard on people when they dont use gc as an absolute last resort to getting their question answered and don't use the most politically correct way of phrasing their quesiton.

Shut up.

No. Gotta set things straight. People asking questions on the internet.....RIDICULOUS!

Grown ass men and women talking to strangers instead of their supposed brothers and sisters....HOGWASH!

Totally! :)

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