Help!
 

I have a big question.

I pledged first semester and got initiated into a national fraternity, however I ended up resigning a week after I due to a number of reasons. Is there anyway I could rush this spring?


James

I don't think so since you were initiated into another fraternity. I think all you could do was a local, professional, or multi-cultural GLO.

Someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

I think you are correct, but I know some multi-cultural org's do not take someone who was once initiated into another social org.

Ummmm. MCGLO's aren't anything like local or professional GLO's. We run the same as NPHC, NIC, NPC, etc. Just because we aren't founded as a social organization, doesn't mean we let people in who were initiated into another group (just to let you know). That's just wrong. The only way you could start over would be if you depleged before initiation, since you didn't you can't join another organization. Sorry. :(

Correct me if I'm wrong...
I believe you can be initiated into more than one IFC Fraternity if you have a letter from the 1st National Fraternity. You should do a search on here but there have been stories about men who disaffiliated from their first org and then initiated into a second. They had a letter from the 1st org saying they were fully released. Granted the 2nd group has to be willing.

Maybe some of the men will give you more information. Good Luck!!

I was thinking the same thing. There have been some recent threads on the subject.

It is highly unlikely that you will be released if you are still attending on the same campus as the chapter you were initiated into. Releases usually involve a transfer to a campus without your initating organization.

Let me get this straight...you went ALL through pledgeship...and now you're dropping out?

I don't know what other groups do, but I would NEVER vote to give a guy a bid if he was initiated into another fraternity before. I mean, especially if they were a secret society. How could we ever trust a person to learn our rituals if they already bailed on a different fraternity? No way in hell....

I think it has been done in a very limited set of circumstances. But from the sounds of yours, I would say no.

I agree with PhiDelt649, why would another IFC Organization wish to have you after you and you alone decided to leave after you have been Initiated!

There may have been other ways that you could have stayed a memeber with out resigning, but not knowing other than what you wrote, it is hard to say what your true situation is.

Re: Help!
 

You need the resignation accepted by the fraternity, not just the chapter. Also, you need the fraternity to issue you a letter acknowledging the resignation. Then you can join another fraternity.

Yes in short you can join a new fraternity...
My friend's roomate joined a fraternity here on campus (Phi Kap I believe) but then he got a bid and pledged Pike after he resigned from Phi Kap).

colonist, it sounds like he was a not initiated but just a Rushee!

Yes Russel, as I said above, it can happen but very seldom!

It is not quite like you made it sound!:(

Well maybe in your Fraternity, of which I know little about!

If you do decide to go through rush again, keep in mind that unless you left your former fraternity for some extreme reasons, another fraternity might be scared to give you a bid because they might question your loyalty.

I think what you said is right bc I was talking to a SAE one day at school and we were talking about disaffilation (in general, not that we are) and stuff and he said how a guy can disaffilate a fraternity get a letter from Nationals and if the other fraternity wants to extend their bid to them that they decided to rush, they can go ahead and do so and that brother can join the fraternity. But that is from what I was told.

I'm pretty sure all NPHC Orgs call themselves "Social and Service." Theta Nu Xi (MCGLO) is basically the same in that respect. I know people around here have said this before, but social orgs are different from service, professional, etc. in that we have mutually selective membership. Service and professional, I believe, are open to all who'd like to join. Of course, people have to meet GPA requirements and other things, but that's true of just about any campus org.