Student groups, esp Greek orgs, can only be organized on campus WITH THE PERMISSION of the school administration, esp at HBCUs. Those who attended HBCUs can speak more to this topic but I understand that these schools tend to regiment structures such as membership intake for the Greek orgs.
That's not necessarily true - in many cases, the student life office of a university encourages groups to start and exist, on their own. Permission is tacitly implied by the fact that students are involved. Do you really think that the college republicans or college democrats or SNCC or any of those groups got permission before they started.
Also what usually happens in a situation where a group of men come to an organization and ask to colonize is that group meets and then, after talking to someone from the national org, decides to take the next step and become a colony - on their way to their charter.
On a different tack - Firehouse, why don't you want your fraternity to grow? what about going to Howard bothers you?
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Marc A. S. Dumas...
IL Zeta '93
The Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity
[B]"Let us be who we say we are...a FRATERNITY, not a club; run by MEN, not boys; and based on IDEALS, not expediency."[/B]
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