Need help organizing my sorority
 

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If there's an article in the campus paper, you're not "underground." You are simply not recognized by the college.

GammaDelta,

According to the article in the school paper, your sorority used to have housing on campus. What are the school guidelines that led to GDP moving off campus in 1992? Did they have anything to do with drinking? The school paper makes a major point out of the fact that GDP allows alcohol at their functions, which makes me think that the fraternities that are still on campus don't.

I don't want to over simplify, but if the dry GLOs get campus recognition and campus housing (and presumably are thriving) maybe you should rethink your alcohol policy. Would you sisterhood be the same if you took alcohol out of the equation?

we could go dry and try to get ourselves school sponsoring like the other school sponsored "Greek life" but those frats aren't real Greek life. They're more like clubs - there's a one week pledge period and no ritual or anything, plus they're all co-ed. there are no parties, and all events are school regulated things like donuts and pizza - they aren't real greek life.

Define "real" Greek Life...?

So you're saying (and you know for a fact), that the groups on your campus have no ritual and only have meetings once a week, and don't have any other events? That's pretty hard to believe.

Ahhh...gotta love pretend Greeks! :rolleyes:

yeah thats what I'm saying. they have social events regulated by the school, and they have an advisor that oversees everything. Gamma Delta Pi does not want to become that - we want to keep our traditions, be allowed to socially drink, and not have administration down out throats. these groups are music fraternities - like clubs.

real greek life as in not being a club. not having administration monitoring all your activities with a critical eye. being allowed to socialize with alcohol. being student led and student run with no adviser.

Well I guess my Greek life experience wasn't "real" then.

My chapter followed rules set down by the school, had strict policies regarding alcohol (dry rush; alcohol allowed at events with a 3rd party vendor) and we had advisors up the wazoo when it came to finance, scholarship, recruitment, and operations. It was because of these advisors that helped keep us functioning and afloat. The advise. They do not govern.

I'm going to be frank here and say that your perceptions of Greek life are very way out there and ridiculous. It's a possibility that your current situation may get worse if you really think y'all can do it all by yourselves.

How's that workin' for ya?

Here you are pleading for help and advice... advice... adv-ISER! *gasp* What do you know? Maybe they exist in every SUCCESSFUL greek sorority for a reason!

Sorry. We aren't trying to gang up on you, but it's clear that there is a definite need for change in your group if you want to survive. I know you've been going it alone for more than 15 years, but almost every sorority across the country (social and multicultural and service and religious and what-not) are most successful when they align with the campus and work within the guidelines of the administration.

This does not mean you can't enjoy a beer or glass of wine or even that nasty trash can punch that was popular when I was an undergrad. It just means that you don't do that as part of a sorority event... at least, if that's what the campus rules dictate.

Look, I'm not trying to offend anyone.
Gamma Delta Pi has existed for over 30 years, and it just the past 2 that we've been struggling with organization, not the past 15 since we've been unaffiliated with the school. I'm not saying anyone's Greek experience is any more real than anyone else's. All I'm trying to say is that the type of Greek life my school affiliates itself with is not the same experience the sisters of GDPi want. We just want to remain the same, without affiliating ourselves with the school. I'm just looking for advice on how to draw new sisters in without having a house, and how to best uphold our traditions.