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Originally posted by FuzzieAlum
How often does it happen that there is a group of local girls with a national pre-interested, where the local really does have enough interested members to succeed (like if you have 10 and ceiling on your campus is 150, that doesn't count) that Panhel turns them down?
I suppose Panhel's argument is that, well, several of our chapters are struggling, so join them instead. And they have a point. But I could see that not being good enough. If all the sororities on campus are the ones with stronger Christian roots, and the local wants to bring in AEPhi, it could turn into a religion issue, for example. Or if you could prove that the other chapters haze badly, you could argue you have a right to a hazing-free choice.
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Believe it or not, this happens all the time! When my sorority first starting expanding, the campus Panhels always turned down our interest groups. The Panhel reasons were either the sorority was not eligible for membership in Panhel (because the Panhel Bylaws only allowed for NPC sororities) OR the Panhel decide not to open the campus up for expansion (i.e., anti-competition attitude).
After realizing that we would never be able to expand to large campuses if we had to get a Panhel's approval, we now just get recognized as a student organization first and then work with the Greek Life office. With the help of the Greek Life office, the Panhel will usually re-write their bylaws in order to recognize our colony/chapter.
Unfortunately, sometime even the Greek Life office is not helpful. So in those cases, we have had to work our way up the university chain-of command. It two cases, we went all the way up to the VP of Students before we were able to be recognized under Greek Life and Panhel.