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Originally Posted by gabbisunshine
I'm starting college in the fall at an art school. I was a member of a high school sorority and was really looking forward to pledging come fall, but I found out that my school does not have a Greek system. I immediately started looking up the steps (thanks to greekchat  ) to go about expanding a national, starting a local, anything. I've even made a four year timeline. I wrote to the Dean of student affairs to plead my case against the stigma and stereotypes. I could tell he had not read my letter thoroughly by his response. I'm planning on writing a reply letter back, touching on his issues of discrimination (even though the only groups on campus are those for certain nationalities, religions, races, or sexual orientation, all of the aspects he said sororities discriminated against, ironic isn't it?)
I tried putting a feeler letter out in a group for incoming freshmen and the little response I did receive was negative.
My question is, Where do I go from here?!
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If the school does not want to support a Greek system, there's really not much you can do.
Did you ask why there's not already a system in place? I don't think I've ever heard of an art school with a Greek system. Did your campus have fraternities and sororities in the past? If so, try to figure out what happened. That could be the reason the school is against having them now.
As far as the "feeler letter" is concerned --
1) The Dean may have felt that you went behind his back by conducting this "study."
2) If the responses were negative, why would you still want to push it?