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Originally Posted by KAPital PHINUst
I know of 2 Alpha Phi Omega splinter groups:
Phi Rho Eta Fraternity (former members of Zeta Nu chapter - Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)
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Yup. I think this group has had chapters Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta, but last I saw, Beta and Delta were inactive and Gamma was bringing back Alpha.
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Originally Posted by KAPital PHINUst
Theta Beta Phi Fraternity--no longer in existence (former members of Rho Omicron petitioning group - U. of Md. Eastern Shore; the longest lasting petitioning group--5 years until the group got tired of jumping through hoops in getting rechartered and and voted to disaffiliate; at the same time, the National Board voted to deem the group inactive; albeit independent of what the PG was doing and vice versa. So in a sense it was a mutual separation.
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It may have been five years from first interest to final separation, but they were only actually involved in the proper procedures for about 3 years. In fact this chapter may be single handedly responsible for the changes in procedure that put a maximum length on certain phases of the Petitioning Process. I have both sympathies and issues with both the group that was attempting to come on campus and the Regional Staff. I was at their PG ceremony and on sectional staff at the time.
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Theta Xi chapter (at a now-closed school in New Jersey) was merging with another school. The chapter at the closed school was all-male; the school it was merging with had a co-ed chapter. The all-male group did not want to merge with or lose it's all-male status, so it disaffiliated with APO and became a local social fraternity until it was later picked up as a chapter of.....THETA XI Fraternity.
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Not New Jersey, Parks College of Saint Louis University (across the river in Illinois). Saint Louis University moved the aviation program (which was basically the entire school) back to the main campus and the all-male chapter at SLU-Parks wanted to merge in as a separate all-male family within Delta Delta chapter at SLU. This was not acceptable to the brothers of Delta Delta chapter and after much talking (The Region VIII director got involved), they decided to go their own way.
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Side note: I have a feeling with the new requirement that all chapters must be co-ed, there will be more splinter groups forming in Alpha Phi Omega very soon.
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Possible. I've been keeping an eye out online.
Randy