New Sorority on Campus
 

I'm a member of a local sorority at SHSU, and in about 2 weeks 3 national sororities are coming on campus to check out SHSU and us. Our membership is fairly low because we are not national, but we really want to make a great impression, because we feel becoming national is the next step for us. Sigma Sigma Sigma and Alpha Xi Delta are the two I know who are coming for sure...anyone come from a local sorority that later became national and have some tips? In one of these orgs and have advice or tips as well?

Well, I am a Sigma Sigma Sigma sister that was a member of a local that petitioned several NPC sororities and we clicked with Sigma right away. They helped us with that TOUGH transition from local to National, and understood that we also wanted to keep some local traditions. They were always willing to work with us. We also have a program that puts a three year support plan into place. After colonizing, you have three years of unlimited support from EO so that if you have any questions or doubts, they are there for you. Not to say that after those three years you are left flapping in the wind, ut after researching, we found that most new chapters fail within three years. We felt that laying the solid groundwork a new chapter needs leaves them stronger than when we got there. I love being a Tri Sigma. Of course, AXiD is a great NPC as well, I just don't know anything about them. I would encourage you to ask all questions that linger in your mind and go with your heart! Feel free to email me at sigma94@yahoo.com to ask any questions you would like answered!

SigL, both are very great NPC's and all you need to do is present your self in a positive light. Are you grades up, are your members in campus commettiees, are you envolved in campus and local events? This is a plus and shows that you are a group who if associated with a National could do more!
I know very well as started a local that went with LXA and have never looked back and am still envolved after 36 yrs.
Look at both or anyothers to see if your group fits! Be knowledgable of both! Check greekpages.com and you can get info on both and the chapters!

GREAT LUCK to you!!!!

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Tom Earp LX Z#1
Pittsburg State U. (Kansas)

Well first off.. congradulations on having the opprutunity to go national!! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif
Im a Phi Mu from Miami,and i LOVE my GLO... but about the ones coming to visit you... we have both of those organizations at my campus.. my advice to u is to look at their national webpage as well as some of their other national chapters.. at different schools..
look at their values, their beliefs and the things they were founded upon.. read their creeds.. see if those things they believe strongly are things your own local chapter also believes in.. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gifthat is what i would do.. but when they come im sure they will share all that with u as well..

GOOD LUCK! and congrats!!! that is a very great accomplishment..

keep us posted!!

Elisa
Phi Mu
Theta Gamma Miami, Florida


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Love, Honor, Truth

Thanks everyone for your replys! Over the next couple of weeks we are having meetings and workshops to get everything together. I have printed off your replys and will show them to our girls! Thanks so much again ;-)

hi, well we met with tri sigma, alpha xi delta, and alpha sigma alpha. we took a vote as well as the other sororities, and took that vote to discuss with panhellenic. a vote was taken at panhellenic, but only the president knows what sorority got it. we should know very soon what sorority it will be, but we have to clear up things with housing before we send out the invitation (at least that's my understanding) we really liked alpha xi delta and tri sigma the best, although asa was completely wonderful too! will post more news as i find more out! take care!

So, your group is the one that will be picked up and you don't know what your group voted for? How much say so does Panhellenic have, they can choose the group that you will become?

Is that odd to anyone else?


Siglambshsu: Keep us posted!

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Lexi
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I could be totally wrong here, but I think that this is the situation. SHSU Panhellenic Council decided to expand and add another NPC chapter. Sigma Lambda Epsilon is a local on that campus who decided to seek NPC affiliation and saw this as an opportune time to make it happen. Since the PC had already decided to expand before the local came forward, "Green Book" procedures state that the PC can choose the sorority. The reason is because the expansion was not specific to finding an NPC for the local. The new NPC and the local, through mutual choice, will decide if they will merge.

What an exciting time for SLE and SHSU!!!!

Hey all! Wow, thanks soooo much for your support and excitement for us! I have to say this is truly an exciting time for SHSU and us. To fill you in on what's going on...we met with three nationals: Sigma Sigma Sigma, Alpha Xi Delta and Alpha Sigma Alpha. All three organizations were absolutely wonderful and were very impressed with us. We gave each national a notebook full of our info (constitution, bylaws, academic and philanthropy info, etc) and bombarded them with questions!! We did feel a strong connection with both Tri Sigma and Alpha Xi Delta. As an organization, we took a vote. Our president attended the Panhellenic meeting and discussed who we wanted, as well as what the three other sororities on campus as well. Then the PC took a vote, however only the president knows who was chosen until a formal announcement is made. Hopefully, this will be made soon. Right now, our panhellenic advisor is trying to secure housing for the new organization (hopefully us!) and once that is taken care of, an invitation will be sent to that sorority. Next, that sorority has to decide on whether or not they will accept that invitation and whether or not they would like to take us over...at least this is our understanding of this.

As for my sorority, to give you guys a little background info, we were founded in March of 1993 with the sole purpose of becoming a national sorority in the future (who knew that it would take 8 years - but that's okay, good things come to those who wait)! If I am correct, I believe some of our past members petitioned the university to bring another sorority on campus for us, but because there was not a need for another sorority, this did not happen. After, unfortunately, Chi Omega's chapter closed here, a severe need was seen. The sorority wasn't invited on here specifically for us, like aopirose said, that option has been given to the new sorority. I'll keep you all updated as soon as i get more info! Thanks again for your support!

ok, it's official, i'm an idiot...i didn't realize i already posted an update on this. oh, well...happy reading! :-)

Lexi -

I would assume that since the group who is going to be the nucleus of the new sorority has indicated their preference, the college's panhel wouldn't vote otherwise, unless someone has a real problem with that group.

OK, I know this thread is a few months old, but it strikes pretty close to home for me...

I was a member of a local sorority that went national.

As I understand it ~ if a local sorority approaches Panhel and says "we want to become a chapter of a national sorority" the local gets to choose the national. If Panhel decides a new national should colonize (before a local approaches), Panhel picks the national; but if the national Panhel chooses to colonize and a local sorority interested in becoming part of a national sorority are mutually interested, the local becomes the new colony. (Correct me if I'm wrong)

Anyway ~ to siglambshsu ~ congrats on Tri Sigma! :)

I could be wrong, but if an interest group contacts a panhellenic and wants to go "national", they are to send out an invitation to all NPC sororities that don't already exist on the campus.

One of the locals on our campus threw around going national. This wasn't a decision that Panhel wanted to expand, this was a large local wanting to get a national affiliation. In any case, they had to send out a huge packet of information to all of the NPC sororities that weren't already on the campus (21 are not). In any case, being as it's a state school in PA, many nationals probably just chucked that invite in the trash can. But a few groups came and made presentations to the local chapter and the Panhellenic. In the end, a group was selected, but the local decided they didn't want to do it anymore, and the effort fell through.

The point is, all NPC sororities must be invited to participate in a local going national.

This is not necessarily true. It would depend on the situation and how closely the Panhellenic Council follows the Green Book.

The Green Book says that if a local wants a particular NPC and has permission from the proper authority, the local can approach that particular NPC. The Council would notify the other groups either through NPC HQ or directly that this sort of expansion is happening. The other groups cannot come in and say, "hey, look at us too." Although, IMHO, it is best to see what everyone has to offer.

In the case that you described, it would seem that the local had no preference so all were invited.

so do we know who they chose yet????

Me too-I want to know! Seems like we have lots of colonies right now, and I know of interest at Indana University!


EVER FORWARD!!!!!!!!!

whatever happened?
 

what house was selected?
mmcat
:rolleyes:

The suspense is killing me!!!!!
 

Come on already!!!!! :D Is there going to be a new Sigma chapter? You can't leave us hanging like this....................


Greek (and hopefully Sigma) love,
CC

It was my understanding that a national sorority is always able to scout campuses for possible colonization if they are interested in expanding. Then if the campus is open to the idea the national is able to look at locals to affiliate or try and recruit a colony of new girls. At Kent State we had two local sororities until 1990, when Tri-Sigma colonized. For first party that year, all rushees went to tri-sig along with the other chapters, but after that tri-sig did not take part in rush....it was more a chance for them to see and be seen. After rush was over, they had their own recruitment, and in an attempt to build numbers they extended bids to all the girls who did not receive bids in NPC rush. It took time, but they seem to have a pretty strong chapter now. There was another local on campus, Phi Gamma Pi, who was visited by a couple of nationals looking to colonize. I know Alpha Gamma Delta, which lost its charter in 1978, was interested in coming back to Kent State, but it didn't come to be because they didn't want to have to take all the Phi Gams, just the ones they wanted. Phi Gam was actually trying to become an NPC chapter themselves, as in starting Phi Gamma Pi colonies on other campuses, but that didn't happen either. I don't think they are around anymore.

I guess the person who started this thread isn't on the site anymore. Maybe someone with Tri Sig can find out for us.:)

Our latest colonization was similar to the one ErikaXO described. But, the sorority did do the whole NPC expansion thing, and we had to present, along with other groups as well. This was done b/c there wasn't an interest group per se, but there were more women going through recruitment than the sororities could deal with. So after the other sororities' formal recruitment, we had 2 weeks of recruitment, and we got 30 women. It was pretty awesome.

30 years later...
 

The Greek system at West Georgia College (now State University of West Georgia) started 30 years ago. I know that Alpha Gamma Delta began as a local sorority so I guess the other 4 (KD, DDD, Phi Mu, Chi O) did too. Alpha Xi Delta joined as AXiD a few years ago.

Hey gang...please forgive me for leaving you hanging. to fill you in on what is going on, after we met with all three sororities, our president went to the panhellenic, and together they ranked the three sororities by preference, and it was decided that AZD would get the invitation first, and if they declined then the school would send the invitation to tri sigma. i believe that we decided that asa was not what the university was wanting at this time. anyway, after going back and forth during the summer, azd declined the invitation due to some housing issues. the invitation was then sent to tri sigma...we should know by next week whether or not they will accept. i heard that housing is available for the spring semester, but we're just waiting for them to make a decision. we really liked both azd and tri sigma, and connected with both organizations.

hopefully, tri sigma will accept and decide to colonize us. i know there is some question about our situation. shsu decided that after a national chapter was closed, that a new sorority was needed. because we are associate members of panhel. and we have always voiced our desire to go national, the school decided to extend invitations. first, i believe, an invitation was sent to all previous national chapters that were closed on campus. then, an invitation was sent to all national chapter. i'm not sure which ones said they were interested in looking into shsu for extension, but panhel. decided to extend an invitation to azd, tri sigma, and asa. each organization came to our campus, and they met with my organization, as well as gave a presentation to panhellenic and ifc. from there, as i said, my organization discussed who we wanted to affiliate with, and then took our vote to panhell...together we ranked the sororities in order of pref....and the rest is what i mentioned earlier.

we are all ready for this to be over, and to find what sorority will be our newest, and whether or not we will be colonized....it has been a 5-month christmas eve for us! thank you all for you support and your additional input. i will definitely let you all know as soon as we hear more. have a great weekend!

Keep us posted!
 

Good luck to you and your group! Keep us up to date!

That's Great!
 

I'm glad to hear back from you. Good luck to you and your chapter. I know it's been a long haul, but you're getting there!:D

Any new developments?

any news??
 

any updates...
we're all excited for you.
mmcat
:p

unfortunately, we still don't know anything. :confused:

How can they keep you waiting for so *&!@#*^@$#)*%!@# long?

That must be torture! My thoughts are with you ladies, and I hope you get an answer soon.

yes, this is torture, but hopefully things will work out for the best. we should be finding out something very very soon. thank you all for positive encouragement! also, not sure if i posted our url, but go to www.siglamb.com to check out my organization.

good luck
 

good luck, good luck, good luck. :D hope you find out soon. keep us posted!!!

good looking website
 

congrats on the website. i just took a cruise and it is quite something.
good luck on everything else.
i am sure it will work out for the best. you guys seem to have your ducks on line.
mmcat
:p :D :cool:

Hey -- when I visited the website, I first saw a very pretty page with a flower on it, but when I clicked to enter, I got an error message -- "the page cannot be found."

i'm sorry you couldn't get there through that link...but, keep trying!

i just wanted to let everyone know that we found out yesterday that tri sigma will be coming in the spring. as for my organization, they have decided to not affilate with us, but to start with a clean slate. they dowant us to go thru recruitment like everyone else...we're bummed about that, but we are also still excited about and the majority of us will go thru recruitment come january...as we still feel this is the next step for us. i'll keep you all posted with what happens during recruitment, and keep your fingers crossed.

What do you mean by go thru recruitment? How does it work at your school? I mean, are you looking for new members for your local chapter or are you looking to be a part of Sigma? :confused: Would they accept some of you and turn down others? That would be weird.

Wait, I'm confused. So your local wanted to affiliate with a national, and you did the extension process. After all was said and done, your group isn't going Tri Sig, but Tri Sig is still coming to your campus and starting a new group? How does that happen, and what will happen to your local?

I'm curious about this, too. Who would actually be doing the recruitment on their end?

Seriously, has everyone in your sorority thought really hard about participating in this? I can't say that I would be too happy if they decided not to affiliate with my organization, but told us that we could rush. What would it do to your sisterhood if they only take some of you? What happens to the ones they don't take, or the ones who don't participate? I don't think that things would ever be the same for you again. Is it worth it?

That said, I will keep my fingers crossed, and wish you luck with whatever you do!

First off from the start the local group wasn't the driving force for the expansion, so not to affiliate is understandable.

Does she mean the local group is dissovling and each member is going to be a Potential New Member for all the groups on campus and breaking up...going where the recrutment roller coaster takes them?

This is very strange, as most Nationals want to come on a campus with a group in place who already have a pressence!

If they do not want the Organization, I damn sure would not go with them, no matter what National it is!

It very well might break up freindships that you have built up! I for one know that if LXA told me that, I would not be a LXA!

This is absurd.

Unless you are a bunch of F&%*ups, there should be no reason not to colonize you as a whole!