University Rules
 

I was wondering if anybody else has to follow extremely strict rules set by the university. Here are Oregon, as a house, we have to beat the all Men's average GPA (usually around a 2.9 or 3.0) do 120 hours of community service as a house and go to university endorsement speakers. Does anybody else have these rules?

no.

We are expected to be over the all women's/men's GPA average. We also have to go to university speakers and are supposed to hold an event with at least one non greek organization either per semester or per year. These are all part of our chapter expectations.

To what? Stay recognized on campus?

I'm in shock that your all men's average is around 3.0!! I'm in shock that ANY big university's average would be around 3.0.

No.

What's the history of Greek-administration relations on your campus? Is there antagonism there or is the administration being proactive instead of reactive?

We have the rules to stay recognized by the Universtiy and we have a small greek community so I am assuming that we have a good relationship. UofO is the school where Animal House was filmed so they gotta have a good realtionship with Greek life, right?

My university did/does not allow any alcohol to be served at university organizations' functions, whether on or off campus. That included 21+, and they considered any event promoted at a sorority function or meeting to be endorsed by the chapter and therefore a chapter event. The school takes it very seriously, and chapters are disciplined basically every year because of photos on Facebook/MySpace or word that gets around to the Greek Advisor.

For example, when I was a VP on Panhellenic, I had to hold hearings for more than half of the sororities on campus because they went to a "Greek Ski Trip" out of state, where alcohol was prominent. How did the school find out about it? One of the fraternities hung a sign in the quad thanking the sororities by name for "a great weekend." Though the "thanks" was touching (right!), the sororities were not appreciative.

And what school was this?

University of Oregon. They have some fairly strict rules about being recognized and/or in good standing. A few other schools have followed their lead...

[QUOTE=PeppyGPhiB;1350031]My university did/does not allow any alcohol to be served at university organizations' functions, whether on or off campus. That included 21+, and they considered any event promoted at a sorority function or meeting to be endorsed by the chapter and therefore a chapter event. The school takes it very seriously, and chapters are disciplined basically every year because of photos on Facebook/MySpace or word that gets around to the Greek Advisor.

Now THAT is just ridiculous! And I thought my school was strict...

At GW, if you're off campus, you still need to go through this whole process about serving alcohol at events.

Does anyone know the legality of this? Like, can the regulate it if it isn't on their property?

Thanks
Nate

UF's all men's avg:3.140
UF fraternity avg:3.271

UF's all women's avg:3.330
UF sorority avg:3.402 (PC 3.444)


For us, if you're 21 you can drink at events where there is alcohol (like bars, clubs and fraternity parties). The whole sorority must vote beforehand whether or not our events can have alcohol though.
The university has been cracking down on drinking though and greeks must now register their parties and provide police officers.

That might not even be legal.

You should talk to your chapter's general counsel.

Why would that be illegal? Can the university not set certain expectations for a chapter to be recognized on campus?

I think that the University can do whatever it wants to allow groups to stay on campus. I do not believe that we can get kicked off for not meeting these standards because that would be illegal I just find it as kind of hypocritical to have Greek houses collectively beat the All Men's/Women's average when football players only need to maintain a C- average or so to stay on the team.

At the University of Hawaii at Manoa there are only three fraternities and two sororities. We have us the Kappa Sigmas, Tau Kappa Epsilon and a local Fraternity called Kappa Epsilon Theta. The two sororities are Beta Beta Gammas and Alpha Gamma Delta.

I dont think we have any set standard from the school other than no Hazing. We dont even have a greek department at our school. We are the newest fraternity on campus and we have been organizing the greek activities on campus

But our fraternity standards are that:
Be above the all mens GPA (UHM is around 2.8 - 3.0)
Each member must to at least 25 hours community service
Each member must fundraise money to donate to charity
Study Hall Hours for Pledges and Brothers under a 2.5 GPA

Correction, the local fraternity is Kappa Epsilon Theta, not Omicron.

While there is no Greek Affairs office, all GLOs fall under CAPS, and are treated under the Registered Independent Organization umbrella. Back in the 90s when local fraternities and sororities dominated UH, there used to be a structured Inter-Greek Council. AGD, TKE, Beta Theta Pi, and Sigma Phi Epsilon pretty much did their own thing and were independent of the IGC.

Thanks for the correction.
That is what I heard about UH having a great greek life back in the day. And we are attempting to bring it back.

It'll be hard, especially when you got dormant local sororities with lazy ass alumnae who won't bother recruiting new members in the Fall. Gamma Chi Sigma was by far the biggest local sorority while I was there and I'm surprised that I didn't hear anything about them last Rush. BBG was dormant when I was in school. Maybe if they quit hazing the shit outta their pledges they'd still be around.

It'd be nice to get another NPC sorority on campus, but I doubt it'll happen anytime soon. It took 60-some years to bring AGD to UH.

I sent you a PM about somethings at UHM.