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Originally posted by PhiPsiRuss
Chapters are not underground with relation to the parent organization. They are underground with relation to the host institution.
If there is some defining relationship between your chapter and your university (i.e. "as long as we follow university policy, they cannot touch us") then you are not underground.
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I still disagree with your definition of underground. "Underground" in this case implies that groups are organized/behaving in secret, whether that be in secret from their HQ or their host institution.
In my chapter's case, nothing is secret. The university knows we are there. We are simply unrecognized. We receive no funds from the university, we have no rights to promote ourselves on university property (aside from the basic promotion that ALL students have, i.e painting the cannon). That's what I mean by following university policy. If the university says we cannot advertise in certain places, like residence halls, then we don't.
Again, we aren't engaged in any clandestine behaviour, as the term underground would imply.