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Encourage your Greek Adviser to help you address the problem.
Forming special interest groups within Greek Life that appeal to different interes: like a Panhellenic Women's Circle, a special interest club where women come together to discuss current issues and help with planning Panhellenic programming. Or a President's Round Table, where all the Greek presidents meet monthly to discuss campus or office challenges. Honor Societies like Order of Omega and Rho Lambda also help break down those walls.
Reward chapter members for attending the weekly Panhellenic meetings as an observer and begin chapter awards where members nominate a Greek of the Week to a member of another chapter and a member of your chapter who has been Panhellenic. Some names I have heard used for awards to members of other Groups:
Greek of the Week
KD's Panhellenic Powerpick
Tri-Delta's Delta Woman/Delta Man
In my ADPi chapter, to reward our own members for acts of Panhellism, we awarded a sister the "ADPanhellenic" award.
When you recognize people for exhibiting the behavior you want, others will follow.
Plan all-Greek events together-- a Greek Block Party, community events that take place on Greek Park like a kiddie Halloween trick or treat, plan a dance marathon fundraiser, etc.
Hold a Greek Sisterhood Supper at your house and have each of your members bring at least two other Greek women. Hold ice cream socials and other sisterhood events with the chapters.
With the support of your Greek Adviser and Panhellenic, you can make this happen. To begin though, it would be best to start a dialogue and have representatives of all the groups brainstorm as a Panhellenic relationship building task force.
ETA: Best to involve everyone from the get-go, so they feel empowered and that it was "their" idea, too.
Last edited by adpiucf; 11-09-2004 at 11:32 AM.
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