Greeks "Jumping" onto the news

[MooseGirl]

I just finished watching my local newscast. There was a little segment that took me by surprise.

The Greeks, known as the Fraternity and Sorority Awareness Club (because individual groups aren't allowed on campus) at the University of Waterloo are doing a fundraiser - jumping on little trampolines.

The news had good shots of one woman from Kappa Kappa Gamma, and then a bunch of guys from Sigma Chi. I think Zeta Psi is also on that campus, but I didn't see any of them.

Anyway, jst thought it was cool that the philanthropy side of greek life made my local news.
So where's Kappaloo? She's from that chapter, wonder if she knows the young lady bouncing up and down!

[NebraskaDelt]

Could you explain how there can not be individual groups on campus? I'm not sure how this can be. Does this pertain only to GLOs? The "individual" part is what I don't understand. Any organization is an individual organization. If none are allowed, then there are no organizations on campus. And if GLOs are not allowed on campus, how come there are national organizations with chapters at this school?

[MooseGirl]

Originally posted by NebraskaDelt
Could you explain how there can not be individual groups on campus? I'm not sure how this can be. Does this pertain only to GLOs? The "individual" part is what I don't understand. Any organization is an individual organization. If none are allowed, then there are no organizations on campus. And if GLOs are not allowed on campus, how come there are national organizations with chapters at this school?

Sorry to not be clear. GLOs are not recognized by the university. It was like that for a bit at my uni too. Often we are given the "it's discriminatory" excuse. But because any student can belong to the fraternity and sorority awareness club, that club is allowed on campus.
Also, there's nothing saying that an individual student cannot belong to a GLO, so that's why there are KKG and Sigma Chis there.

For example, at my school, we had the Inter-fraternity and sorority council. Technically anyone could join, but usually only members of GLOs belonged. Any GLO that wanted to use a room on campus would have to go through the IFSC to book it for them - it got to be a huge hassle since having 5 groups booking as one made us look like we were using up a lot of the space. Fortunately our student government changed it's position, but there are still a lot of campuses out there that don't recognize GLOs on campus. (isn't U of Toronto like this too?)

Does that clear things up at all?

[33girl]

Originally posted by NebraskaDelt
Could you explain how there can not be individual groups on campus? I'm not sure how this can be. Does this pertain only to GLOs? The "individual" part is what I don't understand. Any organization is an individual organization. If none are allowed, then there are no organizations on campus. And if GLOs are not allowed on campus, how come there are national organizations with chapters at this school?

Just to let you know this is in Canada. Things are very different there. The nationals are OK with it because they know some of the regulations are whack.

[MooseGirl]

Originally posted by 33girl
Just to let you know this is in Canada. Things are very different there. The nationals are OK with it because they know some of the regulations are whack.

yup Everything is a little bit whacky up here

[NebraskaDelt]

Yes, thanks for clearing it up.