want to bring a Tri-Delta chapter to my university!

sarolasju · #1 02-13-2010, 06:33 PM

My school doesn't currently have a DDD chapter, and I just don't feel like any of the orgs we have now are right for me. I did my research on NPC orgs and fell in LOVE with tri-delta, so I'm hoping to start a new chapter at my school! I contacted my greek advisor, two local alumnae chapters, and the national headquarters so far, but I'm waiting to hear back from most of them still. Has anyone chartered a chapter at their school? Any advice? Thank you all so much!
Samantha

33girl · #2 02-13-2010, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by sarolasju

My school doesn't currently have a DDD chapter, and I just don't feel like any of the orgs we have now are right for me. I did my research on NPC orgs and fell in LOVE with tri-delta, so I'm hoping to start a new chapter at my school! I contacted my greek advisor, two local alumnae chapters, and the national headquarters so far, but I'm waiting to hear back from most of them still. Has anyone chartered a chapter at their school? Any advice? Thank you all so much!
Samantha

Is your campus open for NPC expansion?

Did you actually go through rush at your school?

Is anyone other than you interested in starting a new chapter?

Unless you can answer "yes" to all three questions...forget it.

On another note, no matter what chapters are at your campus, the girls who go there are the girls who go there. If (example) they all play sports and hate dressing up, you're not going to end up with a chapter full of girls who change their clothes and makeup 5 times a day just because they're in Tri Delta.

ComradesTrue · #3 02-13-2010, 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by sarolasju

My school doesn't currently have a DDD chapter, and I just don't feel like any of the orgs we have now are right for me. I did my research on NPC orgs and fell in LOVE with tri-delta, so I'm hoping to start a new chapter at my school! I contacted my greek advisor, two local alumnae chapters, and the national headquarters so far, but I'm waiting to hear back from most of them still. Has anyone chartered a chapter at their school? Any advice? Thank you all so much!
Samantha

Unfortunately it doesn't work the way that you are hoping.

First, your campus panhellenic has to be open to extension. In other words, they have to vote to add a NPC sorority to your campus. At that time, any of the NPC organizations (there are 26) can submit packets declaring interest in chartering a group on your campus. From the packets submitted, your campus panhellenic will narrow it down to a few groups (usually around 3) to come to campus to present. Following that, the campus panhellenic will vote on which group to invite to colonize.

It is pretty rare for there to not be any groups on a campus that would be "right" for someone. All chapters are made up of many different individuals. Have you gone through recruitment? Since there is virtually no chance for your dream of bringing Tri-Delta to your campus then I would encourage you to look again at the groups already there. You may surprise yourself.

ETA: 33 beat me to it

sarolasju · #4 02-13-2010, 07:07 PM

As far as I know, my school is still waiting for a formal decision on NPC expansion, I did rush my freshman year, got two bids but turned them down, and no I am not the only person interested in bringing DDD to my school.
I just don't really know what to do from here. Am I supposed to just wait to hear back from people? I started assembling a packet according to my universities expansion procedures but its just tough having not heard back from my advisor or nationals yet.
I agree with 33 on her example, but when I mentioned the already present sororities not feeling right, I didn't mean I don't feel like I fit in with the girls, they all seemed plenty nice. What I mean is that I don't feel that I can identify with the purpose and ideals of the orgs themselves.

KSUViolet06 · #5 02-13-2010, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by sarolasju

As far as I know, my school is still waiting for a formal decision on NPC expansion, I did rush my freshman year, got two bids but turned them down, and no I am not the only person interested in bringing DDD to my school.

I just don't really know what to do from here. Am I supposed to just wait to hear back from people? I started assembling a packet according to my universities expansion procedures but its just tough having not heard back from my advisor or nationals yet.

I agree with 33 on her example, but when I mentioned the already present sororities not feeling right, I didn't mean I don't feel like I fit in with the girls, they all seemed plenty nice. What I mean is that I don't feel that I can identify with the purpose and ideals of the orgs themselves.

In short, yes, you have to wait to hear back from people.

Expansion cannot occur unless your campus Panhellenic votes to open for expansion.

Even then, you have to consider the fact that Tri Delta has to be interested in starting a chapter there. Tri Delt probably receives requests like your daily and they have to carefully consider alot of things before they agree to form a colony.

Really, there isn't alot you can do besides wait and see if your school will open because without that, it really can't happen.

twinkle555 · #6 02-13-2010, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by sarolasju

As far as I know, my school is still waiting for a formal decision on NPC expansion, I did rush my freshman year, got two bids but turned them down, and no I am not the only person interested in bringing DDD to my school.
I just don't really know what to do from here. Am I supposed to just wait to hear back from people? I started assembling a packet according to my universities expansion procedures but its just tough having not heard back from my advisor or nationals yet.
I agree with 33 on her example, but when I mentioned the already present sororities not feeling right, I didn't mean I don't feel like I fit in with the girls, they all seemed plenty nice. What I mean is that I don't feel that I can identify with the purpose and ideals of the orgs themselves.

QFP.

How did you end up with two bids?

Lets say hypothetically that you did get DDD to charter at your school. How do you know that you will fit in the other girls chosen to be in your school's hypothetical chapter of Tri Delta? You could love DDD till the cows come home but if you dont get along with your sisters whats the point?

I find it unbelieveable that you cant find at least one chapter at your school to identify with..all the NPCs are values-based orgs and if you take away rituals, colors, symbols and a few policies here and there, they are a lot (although not exactly) alike.

I would give yourself a timeline..what is your class standing? I would say by your 2nd semester soph year or 1st semester junior yr if DDD hasnt been able to establish itself at your university then I would try recruitment again. It will be your only shot at being in a sorority.

ASTalumna06 · #7 02-13-2010, 07:17 PM

Refer to this thread:

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ansion%2C+beta

KSUViolet06 · #8 02-13-2010, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by twinkle555

I would give yourself a timeline..what is your class standing? I would say by your 2nd semester soph year or 1st semester junior yr if DDD hasnt been able to establish itself at your university then I would try recruitment again. It will be your only shot at being in a sorority.

I don't know about this.

After spending like a year basically saying that the existing groups do not fit her needs and that there needs to be another one, trying recruitment again may not go so well. The chapters will probably be familiar with her expansion efforts and may not be interested in her, since she would be rushing just because expansion didn't work out...

ASTalumna06 · #9 02-13-2010, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

I don't know about this.

After spending like a year basically saying that the existing groups do not fit her needs and that there needs to be another one, trying recruitment again may not go so well. The chapters will probably be familiar with her expansion efforts and may not be interested in her, since she would be rushing just because expansion didn't work out...

Which means (sadly) she probably won't be Greek at all.

ComradesTrue · #10 02-13-2010, 07:55 PM

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Originally Posted by twinkle555

How did you end up with two bids?

Yeah, that is strange.

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Originally Posted by twinkle555

I find it unbelieveable that you cant find at least one chapter at your school to identify with..all the NPCs are values-based orgs and if you take away rituals, colors, symbols and a few policies here and there, they are a lot (although not exactly) alike.

Seriously. Can't identify with purposes and ideals? The only thing I can remotely think of would be some of the orgs that were orginally founded with a faith basis. But really? I still can't fathom that the OP can't identify with some aspect of any of the groups on her campus.

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Originally Posted by twinkle555

I would give yourself a timeline..what is your class standing? I would say by your 2nd semester soph year or 1st semester junior yr if DDD hasnt been able to establish itself at your university then I would try recruitment again. It will be your only shot at being in a sorority.

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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

I don't know about this.

After spending like a year basically saying that the existing groups do not fit her needs and that there needs to be another one, trying recruitment again may not go so well. The chapters will probably be familiar with her expansion efforts and may not be interested in her, since she would be rushing just because expansion didn't work out...

Yeah, I don't know about this either. Depending on where the OP is, by 2nd semester of sophomore year she may as well show up with a walker and blue hair dye, as she will have aged herself out of recruitment.

sarolasju · #11 02-13-2010, 08:06 PM

Okay, well thank you all for your input. I appreciate it.

twinkle555 · #12 02-13-2010, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

I don't know about this.

After spending like a year basically saying that the existing groups do not fit her needs and that there needs to be another one, trying recruitment again may not go so well. The chapters will probably be familiar with her expansion efforts and may not be interested in her, since she would be rushing just because expansion didn't work out...

True..it probably wont work out, (depending on the school too..I rushed as a junior and got a bid) but I think if she wants to be Greek badly enough and the DDD thing doesnt work out it could be a "last chance" option..

33girl · #13 02-13-2010, 09:50 PM

Not only that, sometimes when a sorority comes to a school, they opt not to take all the members of the interest group or they do additional recruitment so the colony is at the same level, numbers wise, as the other groups on campus. This means the national reps will be picking girls - and they might pick girls you can't stand.

(Not saying any of this is stuff I know DDD does, just using it as an example.)

KSUViolet06 · #14 02-13-2010, 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by 33girl

This means the national reps will be picking girls - and they might pick girls you can't stand.

(Not saying any of this is stuff I know DDD does, just using it as an example.)

Exactly, this is what I don't understand about the "I don't fit in with any of the existing sororities" thing. Do you think a colony is going to be full of girls that are just like you? You could just as easily end up in a colony with girls you "don't fit in with." Then what?

sarolasju · #15 02-13-2010, 10:02 PM

As I mentioned earlier, its nothing to do with fitting in with the girls. They all seemed very nice and I'm actually friends with a few from different groups. I only have three panhel orgs on my campus, the rest are local. Not that I see ANYTHING wrong with the locals, but I don't intend on staying in this town for my whole life, and I like the idea of having alumnae chapters around the country. Of course all the groups have similar purposes in that they're women groups for support and friendship and character development etc, but if they were all so similar then why do you only fall in love with ONE of them? Of course i can fit in with the girls in the pre-existing sororities, but aside from loving my sisters, I want to really love the letters I'm representing. I hope that makes sense. But I guess if its hopeless then well..that's that.