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Originally Posted by cp00
I graduated from BC was in a fraternity. One night I went to a party at BU's Sigma chi house with some girls I was friends with. My brother has been a Sig at Tulane and i ended up meeting some of the brothers. As it turned out, they had a history of periodically giving bids to guys from BC and offered me one. I liked the guys and figured why not? Anyway, i ended up getting initiated. It ended up working out very well. I still lived at BC (and most of my closest friends were there), but I still had the EX side to my life as well. It helped me meet more people and hooked me up with a great job as a barback at a club in downtown boston. I even became great friends with a guy who had been a Sig at GW in DC and transferred to BC suring our junior year. BC is a school where greek life would flourish. all it would take would be for some enterprising undergrads to get a group of people together and petition some national fraternities to start a colony. I know that both Sigma Chi and SAE were very interested a few years back. The administration will never go for it, but that really idn;t a deal breaker. Sigma Chi has a few chapters that aren't affiliated with a university - Harvard for one, comes to mind. I also know that both EX and SAE at BU will give bids to BC students as well. SAE is a "boston wide" chapter at the moment which means tha they'll accept anyone from any school. People could just pledge there, get initiated and start chapters back at BC if they want. just an idea...
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Interesting - I got to deal a bit with the Sigma Chi president when I was president of my chapter at Boston U., and he was always a great guy to deal with in interfraternal situations.
I didn't realize SAE was a city-wide chapter. Since when has that been the case? When I was in school (99-03), it was a BU-only chapter (not recognized by the university, but recognized by SAE international office). I didn't realize Sigma Chi had a policy of giving bids at other schools.
We had a guy from BC, but he started out at BU, pledged while at BU, and then transferred to BC after he had been initiated.
I agree that the administration would never go for it. It would take having houses off-campus (similar to what Boston U. does), and the organizations would have to be self-sufficient, i.e. able to run with no help at all from the college. I'm not sure how Rush would work, as BC would almost certainly restrict advertising on campus. It may even have to be a word-of-mouth thing.
I agree that the students would be all for Greek life. It seems like the perfect place to start up from that perspective, but the administration would be a hurdle.