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Old 10-01-2004, 11:56 AM
AEPhiSierra AEPhiSierra is offline
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problems with an expanding sorority

we're have a little problem with a local from a nearby campus who is trying to go regional. the local chapter is trying to recruit girls underground and have been contacting girls (who have no idea how the sorority even got their names) asking them to be founding sisters of their sorority which has chapters/is starting chapters on several campus in the area (we are not sure if they have said that other chapters exist or is just in the forming stages). we (along with at least 4 other sorority chapters on campus) have problems with this for a few reasons:

- my campus for a while has had at least 1 or 2 sorority chapters struggling at a time and its been a long a time (at least 5 or 6 years) since all the chapters have been strong. a new chapter on campus would either lead to all the chapters getting smaller (chapters range in size now from only 10-25 members) or at least one chapter dying.

- some the girls they are contacting don't even know how the local got their contact information. this can give the all the sororities the reputation of being harassers since girls outside the greek system often don't know enough to differentiate between chapters.

- they are misleading rushes by saying they have/starting chapters at 6 or 7 schools many of which i don't see how they could possibly have or start a chapter at and saying they have a alpha chapter membership of double or triple their actual membership.

- if girls do join initially and are unhappy b/c they were mislead they probably won't attempt to join any of the other chapters on campus b/c of their bad experience.

we fear they are either going to get voted on campus by the Inter-Greek Council with support of the fraternities or they are going to just stay on campus as an unofficial group.

so i am asking you guys for two things.

(1) advice especially from anyone whose campus may have had a similar occurence

(2) information (pm me if you'd like) on whether any of these campus would open for a new sorority to expand:
St. Johns (Queens)
St. Johns (Staten Island)
Hofstra
Stonybrook
ASU
Rutgers
Hunter

Any advice or information would be greatly appreciated!!

Last edited by AEPhiSierra; 10-01-2004 at 12:05 PM.
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