Elon IFC Expansion
 

I just looked at Elon's Greek Life calendar, and it looks like Elon's IFC will be expanding this spring. Rumors have been circulating about a new fraternity, and I even have a friend who is petitioning Zeta Beta Tau to come to campus. Just for a little bit of background information, Elon has 6 fraternities on campus:

Kappa Sigma
Sigma Pi
Sigma Chi
Pi Kappa Phi
Kappa Alpha Order
Lambda Chi Alpha

Elon's Panhellenic was recently expanded with the addition of Delta Delta Delta (woo hoo!), bringing the total number of GLOs to 21 (6 IFC, 8 NPC, 7 NPHC). According to the calendar, presentations will be made April 4-7, 2005. I don't know what fraternities are currently interested in colonizing at Elon, other then possibly ZBT. But expansion has always been an exciting event at Elon. :)

There have been rumors for years about Sigma Nu coming to campus. I know some guys who petitioned for it a fewyears ago, but IFC wasn't ready to expand.

that's a lot of greekness going on! Let us know when a final choice is made :)

Yup, Elon is a fabulous place for Greeks :)

When they decided to have Tri-Delta colonize, it took FOREVER for them to announce the decision. Hopefully our campus will speed things along this year so we'll know and not be checking every five seconds for an update

I'm not familar with how IFC expansion works, but I plan on attending at least one presentation if they are open to the Greek community.

Can anyone fill me in on how IFC expansion works? Is it just like NPC?

For many fraternities, whether they move onto a campus or not has absolutely nothing to do with an IFC. For some it does. Some fraternities even start out as interest groups that want to affiliate with a certain national office later. NPC would probably be just a tad bit different and more structured I would think.

-Rudey

IFCs exist locally. NPC is a national organization. Most chapters in an IFC belong to a national fraternity that belongs to the NIC.

There is no one way for IFC expansion, as it varries by campus.

NIC members are far more market oriented, where NPC groups are very socialistic.

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Presentations are next week! Three fraternities will be presenting; Phi Kappa Tau, Sigma Phi Epsilon, and Delta Tau Delta. Here is the schedule.

Sigma Phi Epsilon use to have a chapter at Elon for a good 30 years before it closed in the 90s. Delta Tau Delta never had a chapter at Elon, and I'm pretty sure Phi Kappa Tau never did either.

Best of luck to everyone! :D

(not so secretly rooting for Phi Tau) but good luck to everyone :) Wish this kind of stuff was happening at my campus.

I just read this in the Pendulum , our student newspaper:

Fraternity Expansion Update

May 1st is when we'll find out :)

Wow, you beat me to it Sharon!

What gets me is how open Greek Life is about fraternity expansion at Elon. The public barely knew about Panhellenic expansion last year other than word of mouth, unless I totally missed something. Which for me, it's a distinct possibility. :D

cool! best of luck to them.

i wish our school would bring in another sorority. right now we only have two: kappa alpha theta and alpha gamma delta.

Elon has very strong demographics for greek life. At least that's what Ben has told me.

S F E:D

Congrat to SigEp!

Way to scoop me with the news, Sharon!

Congratulations to Sigma Phi Epsilon! I know a great guy who is very interested in joining and if all of the founding brothers of the chapter are like him, I know it will be a great chapter!

Congrats to Sig Ep

fraternities presenting? i thought only the sororities did that. must be different and at a more structured greek school.

Its up to the school. There is no inter/national NIC policy mandating or prohibiting presentations.

It has more to do with campus recognition.

On some campuses, while any fraternity may colonize there, the colony or interest group may have to request or present (for lack of a better word) to the campus IFC to join. Basically, they must show that they have met the requirements to be a member of the campus IFC. Regardless if they meet their inter/national organization's objectives or requirements. Once they meet the campus requirements, they are full members of IFC.

For example, a campus GPA may be greater than the GLO's GPA and for the colony to be recognized by the IFC, they have to meet the IFC's GPA requirements X number of semesters in a row. They may have to pledge and retain a certain number of members for X semester/years to be granted membership. And/or they may need to have some sort of notice or approved from their HQ they they are meeting the GLO's requirements.

Again, this is campus specific and not an NIC thing. All the NIC says is that a campus should not refuse any NIC member from colonizing or being a member of IFC. (see above quote) However, a chapter does not have to be recognized by the campus just cause they do.

Right You are. Many if not all NIC Groups will not go onto a Campus unless they are Welcome. I would beleive that the same goes for HPC and HNPC Greeks. But, if the School doesnt Recognize GLOs but will tolerate them then They Might!

The IFC is a quasi group that trys to decide many decissions on things but actually have little or not any control other than saying Oh, Yes, You can be a Member if IFC!

I'm not sure how much teeth the NIC's "Open Expansion" policy has with respect to private institutions. Perhaps the NIC has yet to test this standard.

And since Elon is a private college, the NIC Standards may not apply.

In any case, congratulations to Sigma Phi Epsilon. I'm sure they will be an excellent addition.

I'm gonna bump this thread to update everyone on Sigma Phi Epsilon's colonization at Elon University.

Representatives from SigEp Headquarters have been on campus for most of the school year and held two interest meetings at the end of september and beginning of October. As of October 5, they had given out approximately 40 bids and expected to be nearing 80 by the time they are done. Apparently there was an interest list of 415 unaffliated men. This new chapter has already made ripples in the Greek system and they are barely formed. It will be really interesting to see how the rest of the Elon fraternities adjust. When Pi Kappa Phi recolonized five years ago, it forced the others to step up. With the addition of SigEp, everyone will have to step it up again.

Always interesting at Elon!!!

Congrats to Sig Ep!

I was a student at Elon when their previous chapter closed in 1998. (Actually their house was next to the AZD house that year and it was very sad to watch the letters come off the house and their door being painted white insted of Red!)

I know some of the men from the old chapter had went "underground" for awhile, but I don't know if they ever were phased out after awhile.

I was also there when Pi Kappa Phi colonized and whoever said it before said it the best, when ever a IFC fraternity comes to campus, all the fraternity men get really competitive - I think its a territory thing!

Great Article! Dont We all wish that this could be printed all over for all and any non beleivers could read.