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"anti-Greek" student govn't
Hey there,
here's the problem: the past two years our university's student government has not wanted Greeks to be recognized on campus any longer. We are barely recognized as it is. Our IFSC is a club and all the GLOs fall under the club status. The school has a regulation that no student is to pay more than $5 for membership to a club...that's fine for IFSC, but of course not the separate GLOs.
The past two years we've had members of Greek orgs on executive council (this year the vp finance was, year before the president was one). Next year there'll be no greeks on council and the president is strongly anti-greek (i've heard this before, and one of my sisters told me about her conversatin with him).
We are all getting worried since without even club status we have nowhere to hold meetings (no sororities have houses, and a couple of the frats occassionally use rooms on campus too). As well, we'll have nowhere to promote ourselves (i.e club days, and putting up posters).
The Student govn't may think we're not important since only approx. 1% of students are greek, but we do a lot on campus. Our groups have been in our campus newspaper at least 3 times this year, once on the front page(Pi Lam's homeless for the homeless) and the Sigma Chi's were club of the year last year; they helped organize one of the school's biggest events (CMN danceathon).
There's just no need for them to want us off campus and we think they're finding it tough to come up with a better reason than dues being too high.
any ideas? any suggestions?
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