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Originally posted by James
I think GeekyPenguin has a very realisitc outlook on this.
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I tend to agree, James. Situations where students transfer to schools where there's no chapter of their GLO can be tough. By no means is this a brand new phenomenon; long before my time, probably long before the time of anyone who posts on GC, the University of Louisville (KY) had a perhaps unique solution. Their yearbooks from the very late 1940s and early 50s include pictures / writeups on a "Wandering Greeks" organization for transfers whose NIC groups weren't at U of L. The men in Wandering Greeks were represented on IFC, took part in intramurals, and had social events. The guys even had a house, at least for a year or more.
The corresponding NPC women's group was called "Stray Greeks." No house, apparently, but had a member on Panhellenic.
While an arrangement like that is not the same as actually disafilliating and being initiated into another GLO, it would appear to at least offer "homeless" Greek transfers a way to participate in Greek life to some extent, form friendships, etc. Whether it would work in the 21st century, or at any particular school, is another question entirely.