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I am an alum from Glitter's school and Our individual chapters are recognized, and are also a part of the Fraternity Sorority Council (FSC) which is the governing body of all the orgs on campus. There is no official NPC or NIC recognition. There are three National sororities at SFSU, and we do meet once a week as Panhellenic, but we cannot reserve rooms under Panhell because it is not a recognized org.
When we sign up for Panhell meetings or rooms for Formal Recruitment, we have to sign up under one of our own organizations. This often is a problem during recruitment because if Alpha Phi reserves a room for Panhellenic, but we also need a room for our own rush party, we might not get the second room because we will have two reserved for the same night. We don't have houses, so we rely on campus meeting rooms.
I don't know how the relations among Greeks are now at SFSU, but when I was active, the President of FSC was a member of a local sorority and VERY biased and mean spirited. It was hard to be part of FSC because the NPC orgs did not have a voice. There were three of us and about six or seven local sororities) In addition to that, there are only two National fraternities and about five locals. National orgs are outnumbered! An example of this was at one FSC meeting, it just so happened that the reps for AGD, Alpha Phi, and Phi Sig were sitting next to each other. The AGD rep made a motion and the President identified her as an Alpha Phi. When the AGD tried to clarify for the record, the President said out loud, "Oh, it doesn't matter. You Nationals are all the same anyway." It was so frustrating!!! I know this person graduated, but she still works at the University in the Student Life office. There is such a huge bias against National organizatons, at least with the sororities. It doesn't help that our school is a commuter campus and anti-greek in general.
Glitter- The bookstore used to offer organizations a $50 gift certificate every semster. I don't know if they still do this. All you had to do in the past was fill out an application and you could use it towards nametages, markers, poster board, anything the store sells. It was great, but it wasn't really advertised. You could check into that. Also talk to AS because they did something similar to that too. Good luck!
I know greeklawgirl and Pikapp142 might have some input too..
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