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Originally Posted by FSUZeta
If you feel that the other greek chapters talk badly about your chapter, kill them with kindness. Bake cookies for each chapter to welcome them back to school, "The sisters of ABC welcome the sisters of EF back to campus. Here's to a great year,". Send them a written note of congratulations when appropriate:" Congratulations to the women of GHI on winning Homecoming Sweepstakes. Your float design was so creative and your school spirit was inspiring. Sincerely, the sisters of ABC." Send congratulations on their chapter anniversary and their founders' day.
Support others' philanthropies. Make sure they know you all are supporting them.
If you have sorority houses where meals are served, perhaps you could initiate an exchange dinner program. On a designated night "x" number of ABCs go to the YZ house and the same number of YZs go to the ABC house. You have designated sisters in the foyer to greet the YZs. Treat it as a rush event. (The chapter members can hone their rush skills) Your goal is to show the YZs what a great sisterhood you have and how happy you are to get to know them. This is done once a month. It is a great way for the sororities to get to know one another outside of competitions. If you don't have houses, your sorority could plan a sisterhood event with another chapter. Do one every month with a different chapter.
Make it hard for them to say unkind things about your chapter.
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I am not sure if things like the cookies happen because that is up to the girls who live in the house (there are 6 of them), but I THINK that happens currently so that's good! I don't know how much it's doing though. As far as I have heard people think we're really nice, but they think that we're weird and give bids to everyone who wants one.
We had an issue with philanthropies this year being on the same day but I am on Panhellenic and our VP of communication is trying to fix that. She wants to make a calendar that will have everyone's events because this semester, three sororities had events on the same day (ours being one of them so none of our girls could attend the other ones)
I am sisterhood chair of panhellenic and I started a thing called chapter-to-chapter bonds. Each semester, every sorority is assigned to another sorority and they must have a social together. I got really good feedback from this so hopefully when we do it again we'll keep creating better relationships with the other sororities! We do have houses but they aren't like in the south where there is a chef and everything- it's only slightly fancier than regular campus housing.
This is definitely great advice- I'll keep working on it
