Omega Psi Chi Sorority: Start a local sorority on your campus
 

If any one would like to start this local sorority on their campus just let me know!!! http://omegapsichi.wix.com/omegapsichi

I decided to check out your website because you seemed really excited about your organization but, I quickly realized that part of your advertisement dealt with how national sororities just don't cut it or measure up.

From your website:
The goal of Omega Psi Chi is to give our members the resources, encouragement, and security to achieve their fullest potential with a lesser financial burden than national sororities.

So, are you trying to start it up nationally? It appears that you view national sororities as financially burdensome. Also, it states on your website:
As a local entity, Omega Psi Chi Sorority allows women the unique opportunity to be a part of a valuable, and social experience in which members help achieve beneficial decisions for the organization. Funds accrued within the organization go directly back into our sorority for members interests and benefits.

What is so unique about your organization that girls can't find something just as good if not better at your school? You really seem to bash national sororities to get your point across as seen here under FAQs:
Many local sororities have more closely-knit groups of girls, allowing for a more intimate bond between sisters, as well as lower dues.

I don't see it as bashing national sororities. These are benefits of local sororities on some campuses that may be a draw to a student considering joining a GLO. I don't think it is this way on every campus with local sororities. Sometimes locals are the same size as NPC groups on campus. But sometimes the local is smaller in numbers. Some girls find this less intimidating and that they will feel more comfortable in a smaller group. Locals may also have lower dues because they don't have to financially support a house or pay dues to a national organization in addition to local dues. Honestly, my local sorority used some of these selling points when marketing ourselves to PNMs. We wanted to get the point across that we offered a valuable Greek experience, yet we were different than the large housed national groups on campus.

Saying that a local sorority offers a unique bond and has more "close-knit" sisters is bashing national sororities. There are national sororities on that campus, not mine but, other national GLOs. There's a better way to market yourself than just looking like you want to bash national organizations.

To someone who is looking at joining a local sorority with 20 sisters versus a large national with over 200, it is easier to get to know every single person. Is it this way on every campus? No. I don't know the specifics of Wayne State GLOs, so I can't speak to the numbers on that campus. Being in a local sorority is a unique experience. But no, I don't think the bonds developed are "unique" or "better than" the bonds developed in a chapter of a national organization.

I never said you believed it. I was mentioning what was on her website. If you don't know the specifics of Wayne State, why are you commenting on it? She is a local sorority at Wayne State where there are other National sororities. Maybe someone who knows more about that school can help us out with this one. I don't know much about the school either but, for her sorority at that campus, she is claiming it is a better fit essentially as she seems to bash nationals. Then she comes on to GC and wants others to take her sorority nationally by offering it up in other threads to start up on their campus. So, she doesn't think that large sororities or national sororities are as unique or close-knit as local ones but, then she wants to make her local a national? Do you see the incongruence?

Yes, I am aware of the fact that Wayne State has chapters of national organizations. Where exactly am I commenting on the specifics of that university's situation? I'm speaking to my general experience as a member of both a local sorority and an NPC sorority. I don't see where she is "bashing" nationals. Perhaps you are reading more into her website comments than is intended. I think the website is trying to point out its differences from other orgs on campus, but is not doing so in the most panhellenic or effective way.

Did you check out the website or are you just trying to start something just for the sake of finding something to argue with me about? :rolleyes: I don't think it's reading it wrong when it specifically gives reasons why a local is much better than a national under the FAQ page and says they are more "close-knit" than nationals. I'd be willing to be that the NPC and NPHC chapters on that campus are probably pretty "close-knit" as Wayne State, from what I understand, is a pretty small school compared to many others in that state. I didn't realize you initially started out in a local. Now I understand.

I'm a little bit confused. Is Omega Psi Chi now seeking to expand? I read through the website and I got the impression it was specific to Wayne State.

I'm simply disagreeing with your interpretation. I'm not arguing, being snarky, picking on you, insulting you or using sarcastic emoticons.

Yeah, she has made a few threads/ written in a few threads telling others that if they want to have her sorority come to their campus they just had to get in touch with her. She essentially downplays the use of national ties but, then tries to recruit others to bring her sorority to their campus to become national. I'm just as confused as you.

Xidelt, I don't really care what you were trying to do. I pay a lot less attention to your posts than you pay to mine. Please feel free to give your opinion. Just know that, like the many other posts you make to argue with me, I don't really put much thought into how you think or feel.

I'm commenting on this because I'm very passionate about local Greeks, not because you are in this thread.

No, of course not. I didn't think that at all.

If a sorority has more than one chapter can it be a local?

(I am skeptical of over-usage of the word "unique," but I qualify my observation by admitting to membership in the FB group Nitpickers Against Language Abuse.)

I wondered this and I assume it is still a local as long as the chapters are in one city or one state.

I thought newer GLOs stopped using the "unique" catchword in the 1990s. People have long figured out that every GLO is "different...just like everyone else."

A local is ONE chapter. If it has multiple chapters then it's a regional.

Oh I thought regional would be chapters at different schools, different states, in one region of the country; local is chapters in one city or one state.

Thanks, 33girl.

"Greekchat: Each one, teach one"

Hey als463 I think you're trying to dig way to deep in my post. It simply says if your interested in starting a local org. on your campus let me know. As to your comments that I'm bashing national is not true as you do not even know me and seeing how I was in one for 3 years before starting my own.

You stated that you did not like the fact that put "The goal of Omega Psi Chi is to give our members the resources, encouragement, and security to achieve their fullest potential with a lesser financial burden than national sororities." on my org. site but, maybe if you would have taken a moment and realize that my school wayne state university is in Detroit, MI the inner city and that girls that really want to be in a sorority and long for a sisterhood simply can not afford the dues of national orgs. even with payment plans.

You ask if I'am trying to start it up nationally? and no at the moment , but we our looking to expand our sisterhood while still make dues affordable as we our in the works to start at a new campus!!! yay and yes you can still but a local org. with more then one chapter to who ask that question.

You also made a comment about this statement on our site "As a local entity, Omega Psi Chi Sorority allows women the unique opportunity to be a part of a valuable, and social experience in which members help achieve beneficial decisions for the organization. Funds accrued within the organization go directly back into our sorority for members interests and benefits." This is on our site to let pnm's know every dime of their dues goes right to the chapters activities and that we do not have to give half of our money to a national headquarters.

You also called in to question "What is so unique about your organization that girls can't find something just as good if not better at your school?" and to answer that is by the way in which i started this sorority and the heartfelt meaning behind the letters and the values in which I in vision in my sisterhood. Also you said I "You really seem to bash national sororities to get your point across as seen here under FAQs:Many local sororities have more closely-knit groups of girls, allowing for a more intimate bond between sisters, as well as lower dues." but that untrue to say as I get many girls/ have read/ and how I felt when going though the national ones I was in and that when you have 30 to 50+ girls in a sorority or 13-18 in a pledge some girls feel left out and feel that there cliques formed and we all know seeing as how we're all in sororities that local orgs. are less in cost not because we have less to offer our but, because we don't have the national overhang. I'am not bashing national sororities am simply stating the difference parallels in local sororities and national ones.

If anyone has anymore questions, comments or concerns please just email through my site as I'am rarely on here.

Thanks Xidelt for backing us and for seeing our site at face value and not trying to stretch it out of context. :)

If, as your website states, "The founder of Omega Psi Chi Sorority S------- S----, created this local sorority uniquely for Wayne State University in Detroit, Mi.", how/why would it work elsewhere?

If you did expand to other campuses, you would, ideally, have to start setting up a higher council of some sort to maintain your focus, rules, etc. It doesn't seem like you are set up to do that, especially if you want to keep your dues at X amount each semester. So why, then, would you offer expansion of the local that you're so proud is local?

In addition, any time you have 3 or more people together, there's a chance that 2 of them will be closer to one another than the third person, so unless you plan on keeping your sorority to two people or less, you're going to have "cliques".

You don't make any sense by asking how/why would it work... it will work like all sororities who have multiple chapters. A local sorority doesn't means you can never ever expanse. Also I wouldn't be a great founder if I didn't want to see my organization grow. Like the say goes there's no growth without change. And you don't know me so please don't ever tell me what I'm ready or not ready for and the abilities of my org. I know what I can handle and what I want for my org. and at this point if you're not a founder of anything I don't need your advised. Any who I would like to thank those who sent me emails of support!!!!!!!!!!! :)

QFP

My English teacher brain hurts. The pain! The pain!

Seriously. My math teacher brain was (is) hurting. I figured that I was just being overly critical and cranky at the end of a school year.

To be honest, you're not exactly doing yourself or your organization any favors here.

If I were in a local sorority, I would sell it as better than NPC. Being that I'm a member of an NPC, I find her argument crap. That seems logical. It's not a LIE; it's just marketing. Most of rush is girls telling other girls that their sisterhood is better because their group is bigger smaller smarter blonder taller richer whatever.

However, I would warn the OP that semantics aside, if you want to be at multiple schools, you might want to tone down the Locals are Better Than Nationals rhetoric. Sounds kind of hypocritical if you're trying to grow beyond one chapter, regardless whether you call it a local a regional or a national.

Also, if you want to grow via social media, you need to be VERY careful about sentence structure, grammar and spelling. It is the only voice you have, and you are not presenting yourself in a very professional or intelligent way. I'm presuming that you are smart enough to be able to present yourself better than this. "Preview Post" is your friend, as is an actual friend if you're still not catching your errors. And if you do not know what's wrong with your posts, then you really need to put sorority life on hold and pledge the library.

Actually, I was going to say that my "I edit everything" brain was literally crying over the op's writing and grammar, but DubaiSis put it very well in the last paragraph of her post. Writing indicates so much about a person and it can really give one a bad impression if there are tons of mistakes. I am one of these people who will go back in and edit if I find even one error in any of my posts. That is not to say that my grammar is always 100%, but at least I make every attempt to have it be as correct as possible.

I think that the majority of posters on this site do the same, which is why when we see atrocious grammar it is not well received.

I'm not going to worry about what everyone thinks about me or my org. I made this post to reach out to other founders, people who care about local groups, and those who want to start one. As long as I'am making the girls who wear my letters happy that's all that matters.

Pythia what is your point?

See, the letters don't belong to you. The sorority you helped found is not your personal possession that you rule over. Yes, you started an organization. But what you really were part of is founding something that will continue on as others join and carry it forward. The sorority belongs to ALL of its members, past, current, and future.

See, this is what people are talking about when they don't want to use GC b/c everyone has a can't-do attitude.

She didn't use perfect english, but I 100% understood what she said. It wasn't illegible babble. Also, their website text is very well worded.

Maybe It's the Detroit-area locals that I know too well, but they've all used the argument that they have a more intimate brother/sisterhood and the smaller financial obligations as high selling points. Hell, SigEp had the lowest men's dues when I was a Freshman and we sold the shit out of that.

I think it's great that OPX started as a local, uniquely designed for Wayne State, but understands that change and growth is great and they're ready for bigger and better without losing sight of their roots.

CTFD

Yeah thanks xidelt I know that. Just like you call your letters yours I do the same.

Thanks pshsx1! I feel some people on this site just like to nitpick. To go with your first sentence is greekchat closing I see their trying to gather $7,000. Also, is SigEp from Lawrence tech.?

Sieadah, ree-Xi had a very good post and you lashed out at her. Perhaps you were on the defense-offense because other posters put you on the defense-offense. You really need to breathe and re-read ree-Xi's post, starting with the question of how a GLO "uniquely" founded to address the needs of a specific school could fit elsewhere. To put this into perspective, many of our GLOs were not founded as locals and were not founded to address the needs of a specific school. We were founded to address the needs of a population that exists at different schools, different cities, and different states (and, for some GLOs, different countries). This makes expansion more apparent because the mission and purpose(s) of the GLOs were never focused on one school.

I doubt the bolded is the case. ;)

:) I understand your posts very well and there was nothing Earth shattering about your errors. But it would not hurt to proofread and edit when your message is an introduction to your GLO. The same goes for GLO websites and GLO email communication. The occasional error is not the same as constant errors.

I didn't lashed out on her. I was letting her know why I said what I said on the site. I thought this form was for local orgs. or people who want to start one. Anyway i'm proud of what I have accomplish and my members.

Why is Pythia banned?

Siedah, I understand what you're saying and totally agree. You know your market and that's great. The problem with expanding is that then you may have to water down your message/focus and then you end up just like every other sorority.

Check out the locals forum on here - there are some posts about wanting to get together in a sort of co-op but still retaining local governance. I think that might be kind of more what you want to do.

Oh and as far as local bashing, yeah maybe she is a little, but it's nothing compared to the local bashing I've seen on here, on school websites, and the internet in general. Yeah there are locals that are nothing but hazing and drinking clubs. There are also chapters of national groups that are nothing but hazing and drinking clubs.

You did not "let her know," though. I am curious about the answer to ree-Xi's (genuine and not snarky) question. Not because your local GLO isn't awesome and you have something to prove to us. Only because you came to Greekchat to present your local GLO and some of us are respectfully curious.

You type like you speak with a beautiful accent and are perhaps English as a second language. If that's true, that is wonderful and you remind me of some of my colleagues. If that's not true, pardon me.

Well, I have faith in the women who are starting the next chapter. Really when you're the founder of anything that's all you can do is teach them the values in which you believe in and founded the org. on and hope they will carry it on. But, I can't let that fear hold us back from growing. I understand your point of view too.

Phil, I did let her know. I quoted her comments one by one within my text and gave her an answer to each one. I'm not seeing a lot of respectful curious.