[DaffyKD]

Lets see if this ancient brain of mine has this straight:

1) You received a bid from a sorority who want YOU.
2) You dropped out of the sorority who wanted YOU but YOU did not want THEM.
3) You and 1 friend, who also received a bid and dropped out, now want to petition a specific sorority to come on campus so you can join them and maybe drop them too.
4) You don't know if your campus is open for expansion.

OK, if I'm on the right track (which I THINK) I am, lets look at some things:

1) There needs to be a need for another chapter on campus
2) Panhellenic receives notice that the campus plans to expand
3) All sororities who currently are not on your campus can decide if they want to present at that particular campus
4) Sororities send expansion package to campus Panhellenic who review all of them
5) Campus decides to extend invitation to their top choice sorority. The one you want may or may not be in the running at this point.
6) Sororities prepare a presentation and then each one comes to the campus to make a presentation to the current campus Panhellenic members.
7) Current campus Panhellenic vote for their choice to colonize. Your specific sorority may or may not be the one selected.
8) A time for colonization will be set. Could be the next semester, could be in another 24 months.
9)You are still in school, you are getting closer to graduation every day.
10) You may have graduated by the time the sorority starts to colonize
11) Sorority recruits their new member/charter class. You may or may not receive a bit.
12) Sorority probably will learn that you dropped out of a chapter. They need members who are COMMITTED to helping the new chapter grow. They need reliable, hard working women. You have already proven you are not a committed member.
13) Life does not revolve around you, your friends or anyone else. You had a chance to be part of Greek life. Sorry, you need to live with the consequences of your choices.

DaffyKD-- who has been a committed member of my sorority for almost 45 years.