[archangel689]

On dropping your personal affilation with the local and going to a national... if you were a person that approched my fraternity and were a member of a local, we would not bid you.

Why? It's simply because you broke your life-long pledge of sisterhood to another group. You back-stabbed your sisters to join us, that goes to show how loyal and trustworthy you are.


There is one case we have agreed on which we would give a bid to someone who was in a local. A local which we are very close to, told us that in the situation which we did not have enough members to chapterize some of their members would become Phi Kaps... where upon they'd be members of TWO groups... and have MANY MANY brothers. This came from their presidents mouth, and needless to say we were honored by how much they wanted us on campus. But your situation is totally different.

As for your sorority going national:

There is a local fraternity XYZ on our campus that went national in 1957, the affiliation was structured very wisely.

They would register under their LOCAL letters as a campus organization yearly. They were already a member of the IFC through their LOCAL letters and thus would not lose their membership if they chose to drop the affiliation. They kept their LOCAL letters close and still wore them.

This was a safety net. If one day they wanted to drop the national or the if the national chose to yank their charter they could just pick up their local XYZ letters again. They would still be in IFC, and they would still be considered a campus organization even without the national! Seven years later, they dropped the affiliation with the national fraterntity and went back to their local letters with little resistance from anyone.

Normally a fraternity would have to disband if they lost their charter or disaffiliated. But, because they were smart about it they didnt and still exist on campus today, almost 50 years later.

If you want to go national, structure it so that you can drop the affiliation whenever your group pleases.