Rush at UCSC - Page 7

wishinhopin · #91 10-07-2001, 04:36 AM

Once again, I just want to thank everyone here for their support. It means so much to me. I got my paperwork from NPC today, but I'm a little confused about the process. I can't figure out if it makes more sense to form a local sorority with the immediate intent to affiliate, or if I should just start as an interest group. Should I start recruiting people right now? How do I even advertize for that? I know that many women on my campus have little interest in only being a local, so I guess I would have to specify that we were going NPC on the flyers or whatever. I'm a little overwhelmed with this process right now. Any advice? I'll post more soon with all the details, I'm sort of sick right now and so I'm not thinking completely straight!

TechAPhi · #92 10-08-2001, 01:14 AM

I am so impressed with you! Keep up the hard work and, my goodness, what a legacy you could leave! I'd be happy to chat with you anytime you're feeling overwhelmed. Feel free to PM me!

I admire you and what you are doing. Stay strong--you can do this!!!

Jen

wishinhopin · #93 10-08-2001, 05:51 PM

I've got another long post for all of you....here's a little more detail on the info I got from NPC:

There are several plans detailed for creating an NPC extension chapter. Plan one doesn't apply to me, because it involves the campus already having a panhellenic. Plan two is for local sororities, also with panhellenic. Plan three is "Affiliation of a local sorority where no college panhellenic exists" which might be applicable if we decide to register as a local sorority. Here are the steps for Plan three:

1. Campus administration designates appropriate personnel to coordinate extension procedure.
2. Coordinator notifies NPC of campus interest in extension.
3. NPC sends packet of extension info.
4. Local sorority can either:
A. ask NPC to notify all NPC groups of interest in affiliation.
or
B. select sororities it wishes and ask NPC to notify them.
5. local sorority prepares informational data for sororities.
6. To NPC sororities that express interest, NPC sends data about campus and local sorority.
7. Limited number of sororities selected to visit campus.
8. Presentations scheduled with sororities.
9. Local sorority selects and petitions NPC sorority of choice.

Plan four is for "establishing NPC sororities or affiliation of a local sorority where no college panhellenic exists". It's exactly the same as plan three except that there are two extra steps:

10. NPC sororities that made presentations but were not selected are notified of the decision, and info on those sororities are filed for future reference.
11. Coordinator meets with reps of selected sorority to establish colonization plans.

So I guess I'm going to call the student activities office and let them know what's going on? Everything is all complicated, this packet of info they sent me has about a billion appendixs that coordinate to another billion things and I'm overwhelmed! I'll let you all know if anything develops. Thanks for the support!

CutiePie2000 · #94 10-08-2001, 06:04 PM

Corina,
Just wanted to re-iterate that we are all behind you! Again, you said that you have 18 girls who were really interested and I am sure that by word of mouth, that number will grow. Do you have a friend who is as keen as you are, who can help you out a bit (don't neglect your school work....a good GPA is important to sororities)

18 girls seems like a great start because I had a look at the 1999-2000 Gamma Phi Beta composite at UCSC (it is here and from the composite, there only appears to be 25 members. Even if, say 10 girls missed that day, that is still a chapter of 35 women. So, you are off to a great start if you have 18 serious interests and if that number is growing!

greeklawgirl · #95 10-08-2001, 06:12 PM

wishinhopin,

It looks as if your next move is to notify Student Activities that you are interested in getting someone from administration appointed to oversee the extension process.

Then get your core group of girls who weren't offered a bid ready (maybe a mass email) and let them know that you're calling a meeting about the NPC extension process. Make that meeting informational/organizational, so that everyone knows what the process is. You can start getting your constitution and committees in order. I would suggest having all your ducks in a row before advertising on the general campus.

Hope this helps, and if anyone can add on this, please do so! Let's help Corina out!

(PS: I know that you already have one particular sorority in mind, but I would urge you to let NPC notify all groups of the extension opportunity. IMO, its best to keep your options as wide open as possible. You never know what will happen!)

mmcat · #96 10-08-2001, 07:50 PM

Hiya...
Sure it looks complicated, but don't let it get you.
I totally agree that you need to build your base of folks interested.
Then do the procedural stuff. Then the promo stuff.
Take it one step...
AND stay in touch. we're with you.
mmcat

wishinhopin · #97 10-08-2001, 08:22 PM

So here's the deal for right now. I am definitely definitely definitely going to ask NPC to get in touch with all the sororities. I am hoping for a couple in particular, but I want to be completely open minded (as much as I can be) until the very end. Here is the only real problem I have. Due to lack of organization on my part, and general shit that has been going on, my contact with the previously mentioned 18 girls has been somewhat limited. As in, I don't actually know how to get in touch with some of them anymore. I know for sure that they are interested, I just need a way to get in touch with them. I don't think anyone at Gamma Phi will be particularly enamored with the idea of giving me some info on the girls that got cut- I don't even know if that's ethical at all. So the only way I can think of to get in touch with them is to post flyers and do all of that. I'm going to be SO angry with myself if I screw this up! Maybe I can ask the student organizations office to get in touch with Gamma Phi and get info on potentially interested girls? I don't even know. This is stressing me out. But I definitely am still one hundred percent into this plan, and I know I can do it. If anyone has any advice, please please please let me know!

greeklawgirl · #98 10-08-2001, 08:34 PM

Corina,

Contact the girls that you do have information for. More likely than not, they will have the contact info of the girls that you are missing.

Either way, I don't think you need all 18 girls right now. What you need is a core group of about 10 who are willing to do the "heavy lifting." Once the group gets organized, you can start advertising and the rest will come--plus others you may not even know about!

Don't stress out! You're doing fine.

mmcat · #99 10-08-2001, 08:55 PM

Do not worry...
Get your core together, get the basics put together, and then follow the trail.
You one tough and special lady...you will be fine.
At least I so believe.
But don't give up.
Mmcat

CutiePie2000 · #**100** 10-08-2001, 09:22 PM

If you are doing flyers, do not discount your Student Newspaper either. You could do kind of an announcement and ask the Student Newspaper to print it for you.

(I know that Student Newspaper can be a bit...err...."leftist"sometimes, but if you are just doing a general announcement, they can't really crow about that). Have some contact information in there, and hopefully some of the disappointed rushees will see it in the paper. Try to get it to run more than once. Or you can have a Letter to the Editor, just letting people know that you are wanting to contact women who are interested in bringing a new NPC sorority to UCSC and have your email address given there....that shouldn't offend anyone.

To be honest, I don't know how cooperative Gamma Phi Beta will be in providing you with contact information of girls who were not extended bids.......with the 10 that you do have, see if they know of any others.

If any of the rushees has unusual names, you could try to track them down through the UCSC Email Directory (you can use first name or last name, or both):

Also, does UCSC have residence? Don't forget to advertise (when the time is right) around the res halls too

shadokat · #**101** 10-08-2001, 11:20 PM

wishin--

The Greek Life office should have a list of women who went through recruitment, and also a list of those who did not get bids with Gamma Phi Beta. Have you contacted them with your ideas yet? If you have, I would suggest scheduling a meeting with the greek advisor and getting the information from her. They keep all of that on record. I know that in a normal greek system with more than one sorority, sororities know what women went bidless, and thus, can have the opportunity to snap bid or invite them to COB. By starting a new group, I would think you'd have a real need for this information.

E-mail me if you have any questions...as I've been through this!

Heather

wishinhopin · #**102** 10-09-2001, 12:26 AM

Heather,

thanks for the advice. Unfortunately, we don't have a greek life office or a greek advisor or anything here. My campus basically hates greeks- they believe very strongly in the stereotypes, so this is just one more obstacle I'm going to need to overcome if I want to do this successfully. But thank you so much for trying to help!

maggieaxid · #**103** 10-09-2001, 09:04 AM

Wishin,
You are doing a great job, and I really admire how much you believe in bringing another organization to your campus. You would be a valuable asset to any NPC group.

Something that I thought about that may help, if you know of any faculty that are greek at your campus, they may be able to help you, and be somewhat of a sponsor to your organization...even if you don't choose that group. At least they would be there as somewhat of a mentor. But I have no suggestions of how you would even go about finding out things like that.

As for getting the word out, I agree: flyers, newspaper, and if you have student access tv and they run bulletins, put up a "greek organization interest meeting for women only", but i would watch out for the Gamma Phi's. Some may want another organization, some may not and they may try and put up some barriers for you. However, with the number of women who rushed vs. the number who got bids, there really should be a new organization on your campus. My old college just did an extension for that reason.

Let us know, and we are here for ya!!!!

-Maggie

DeltaBetaBaby · #**104** 10-09-2001, 12:11 PM

I am not exactly sure why we are assuming that Gamma Phi will be so hostile. I, for one, think that you are much better off approaching them early to let them know what you are doing. If you go to their president and chapter advisor and ask them to pass the information along to their chapter, I believe they will act in the Panhellenic spirit. This is much better than rumors flying all over the place.

CutiePie2000 · #**105** 10-09-2001, 01:47 PM

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Originally posted by DeltaBetaBaby
I am not exactly sure why we are assuming that Gamma Phi will be so hostile. I, for one, think that you are much better off approaching them early to let them know what you are doing. If you go to their president and chapter advisor and ask them to pass the information along to their chapter, I believe they will act in the Panhellenic spirit. This is much better than rumors flying all over the place.

No, you're right. It was wrong of me to assume that the Gamma Phi Betas would not be cooperative.

I believe in the "everything should be out in the open" philosophy, to fend off rumours flying all over the place.