New Frat Needs Help
 

I need some help. There was no frat here on the campus at Ozark Christian College and I decided to start one. I need some help though. You can e-mail me some info on whatever topics u think I might need help on to icharus1@hotmail.com. Thanks for your help.

For you to make a Fraternity, you first need to figuer out which one you would like to have, then you need to inquiry bout what needs to be done to make a Colony, pre-fraternity, at your school. I am in starting myself a Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity at my school and am in the middle of findoing out what needs to be done.

One of the first things on your "todo" list should be to contact the school administration conserning establishing a fraternity on campus. You'll need to have an idea of what purpose the brotherhood would have, an idea of elgiblity for memebership, why the University would benefit from its existance, and if you will be a local or national affliated group.

If you don't have the University's support or approval starting such an organization, you may run into some liablity issues and problems function as an organization at the university. (ie: meeting on campus, using school facilities, posting flyers for recruitment)

Establishing or Founding a fraternity/sorority is not an easy task. You will face many challenges and it will take a lot of time and commitment out of all those invovled - not just a small few. You might find the information at GreekPage's Local's Online a good starting place. I believe the URL is: http://www.greekpages.com/LocalsOnline/

Best of Luck

Jennifer

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Beta Chapter Alumna and Founder
Alpha Sigma Kappa - Women in Technical Studies
http://alpha-sigma-kappa.ou.edu
http://www.alpha-sigma-kappa.org

[This message has been edited by Artimis (edited April 03, 2000).]

hey us girls from Delta Gamma Pi MC Sorority , will be glad to help out with whatever you need, drop us a line if u guys need something
deltagammapi@hotmail.com http://www.homestead.com/deltagammapi/index.html

MML Pres,

It might be easier to start a colony for an existing national fraternity.

Most of them have webpages and 800 numbers where you can reach people who are in charge of chapter expansion. The National Interfraternity Council does also. The benefit to you is that established organizations know how to colonize and have chapter consultants and other kinds of help already in place. They have a lot of experience in starting new chapters. They may also have an alumni base in your area to help out.

I agree with Artimis. The first thing they will probably ask is if your university administration is agreeable to Greek colonization or expansion. You should check on that first. If you decide to go this route, I would strongly suggest that you contact and consider several fraternities and affiliate with the one you feel most comfortable with.

The Delta Tau Delta webpage is www.delts.org. Most other group URL's will probably be very much like that, except with their fraternity name or nickname.

Good luck to you.

DeltAlum




[This message has been edited by DeltAlum (edited March 14, 2001).]