help please!!
 

Hi I was wondering if I can get some advice or help about starting a local sorority. I've done plenty of research about policies, consequences of hazing, and other stuff. I guess its more on the lines of how to get started.

Thank you very much in advance for taking your time out to read this thread and to reply.

Why don't you consider joining an already-established sorority on your campus?

There aren't that many on campus because they are not recognized by the school but the school does know that they exist. Don't get me wrong I did rush one that I could find but I did not feel like the org. actually spoke to me such as value wise. I even went outside of my campus like most people do in my school and I still could not find an org that I could see myself in.

I'm confused. Are they not recognized by your campus? Did you look at NPC or NPHC organizations? What organization did you look at that the values did not speak to you? Where do you go to school? With that information I can actually give you some feedback.

I know its confusing but that's what I've been told. The way I can explain it better is that the school president knows that there are some GLO's on campus but he will not officially recognize them as in to be affiliate with the school. My school actually did a Meet The Greeks activity back in 2010 and that was the last time they did anything with greeks. I believe it was with NPHC orgs that were interested in my school. I go to City of New York John Jay and I rushed a during 2010 so I really don't remember the orgs names. I've taken the two years to focus on my studies and do various research in between.

John Jay
 

I can't find anything specifically prohibiting Social Fraternities and Sororities at John Jay (jjay.cuny.edu) and the have a Psychology honorary apparently...

While not the right answer at most schools, you may have better luck talking to the Student Government. While their by-laws may be more complex than those for my *National* Fraternity, http://jstop.jjay.cuny.edu/docs/Char...ent%202008.pdf , my guess is that if you can succeed in getting a student organization approved there, that it might be the first and most focused step...

(The Student Government bylaws definitely look like they've been done by pre-law and law students).

However according to Wikipedia "John Jay College is considered a "commuter college"; all students reside at home." That gives a *very* different environment for Fraternities and Sororities.

The psychology honorary is not an glo even though it uses greek letters. It doesn't have a rush period or does any activities inside or outside school.

So my first steps should be talking to the student government first inorder to preceed to try and get a student organization approved before any other necessary steps. Thank you for the information naraht.

To be precise, it IS a GLO, in that GLO literally means Greek Letter Organization. I believe you mean it's not a social fraternity. There are a lot of different kinds of GLOs.

There are a lot of threads here about starting locals. And if you want your best chances of success, work with the blessing of your student government. But as Naraht hinted at, if John Jay is a commuter campus you are going to have a very tough road ahead as getting people to be on campus hours after classes are over is going to be a challenge. But maybe the campus is changing and more people are living very near campus and having a more residential college lifestyle, even if they aren't technically living on campus. Before you get too far into this, do you have 20 people who agree with you about the need to start a sorority?

The campus just put comunity hour into effect and roughly its been going well. I was thinking about using that hour to do things. I don't have 20 women but I do have a handful who are interested.

Here is a helpful thread: http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...threadid=10264

Community sorority membership may also be an option: http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ad.php?t=57834

Thanks for the links. They are really helpful especially the story about NBO.