I don't know, ladies, this is sort of coming across to me as if you all are just overexaggerating about a new local starting up.
a) They have just as much right as anyone else to start up a new club, sports team, sorority, etc.
b) A lot of what you say is just speculation. You make it sound like they're stalking the students - it sounds to me like they're just trying to get the word out. My academic honor society sent out "unsolicited letters" to qualified students via a list we requested from the student services department. I'm sure some of those students must have wondered "how did they get my name?"
Plus, you go on about we "could" lose a chapter and XYZ new members "might" have a bad experience and they "probably" wouldn't want to join one of the other sororities once theirs goes bad...etc...etc. Yes it "could" happen.....it COULD also be that there are some students who don't like the gruops on offer and want to start one of their own and they MIGHT be successful and happy with it.
c) You question their colonizations. From what I read in your statement, it sounds like this is a local from a nearby college trying to start a chapter at your campus. Sounds to me like a group who could very well be attempting to drum up business at 6 or 7 schools. They might not be successful after all...then really you'll have been worried for nothing.
d) Buttonz said, " The girl that I understand is behind this is NOT the type of girl that anyone would want to see as a greek...before she was a greek she gave herself a VERY bad rep and there are pictures of her dacing on bars, doing wet t-shirt contests, etc. None of the six sororites on campus will touch her because of this."
Right then, if the founders of XYZ local are bar-hopping, table-dancing, wet t-shirt wearing girls that *no one else wants* then why are you all so scared? So maybe all of the "nasty" icky girls that are not SDT, AXiD or AEPhi material will join them and enjoy it. So what? It's not like you wanted them for sisters anyway. If they get a lot of pledges who like that kind of thing....then OK! That's fine, apparently you're not looking for party-hardy new members.
Would observing XYZ local's (hypothetical future) antics make all of the other girls on campus not want to go Greek with any group? I don't know. Maybe.... but with 6 other groups to observe as well, it's kind of silly to overexaggerate that idea. It sounds to me like you're grasping at any ol' thing you can in order to argue why this sorority should not be allowed to start up.
I'm with Tom and PsychTau. As Tom says, if they're just trying to start a group because nothing currently suits them, then it's not really fair to do everything in your power to stop them (maybe that's why the other 3 locals don't want to cooperate with your CPH? Just a thought). If they're just flying by the seat of their pants....there could be trouble, but what can you really do? As PsychTau mentioned, be the best chapters *YOU* can be. Build up yourselves to be a positive and fun-filled sisterhood that any young lady would be proud to be a member of. In that way, you can increase your chapter's chance to be the one which stands the test of time.
.....Kelly
