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Interest Group at Marietta College
I initiated 5/25/07 at Ohio University and soon after transferred to Marietta College. I was charged with creating a chapter at MC.
There is a rumor in the Alpha Kappa chapter at OU that there was a group of interested guys at Marietta in the 1980's or 1990's. They were not able to get colonized so initiated and stayed active at OU.
In February of 2007 I started the Red, Black and Gold Club. We consisted of three members: myself, my little, and a member of the local women's sorority Omicron Chi Theta. Although we were able to recruit more members we were the only three who stayed active.
The name was soon changed to Harmonious Beginnings. We are a registered student organization with the former Delta Upsilon advisor as our advisor. We even have the second and third floors of a boarding house two blocks from campus with our letters (Eta Beta) out front.
We now have only two members as the OXO graduated. My little just transferred to the community college over the hill. He's still technically active because he comes to meetings but I can't allow him to participate in thing here at the college.
There's a very long explanation of the current status of the Greek community that I won't get into. I will say that the Delts, the Kappas and the Lambda Chis have expressed support for us.
We have met so many challenges but there is one that we just cannot overcome. The chairman of the music department is a Sinfonian but he refuses to even speak to me about the possibility.
With that being the case there has been a lot of discussion as to what to do with the group. The most popular choice is to split into two entities.
The first would be the Mid-Ohio Valley Area Alumni Association. There are a ton of alums in the area and this is a way to still contribute to Sinfonia without starting a collegiate chapter.
The second is to form a local fraternity from HB. Our interest group has been approached by Tau Kappa Epsilon and Alpha Sigma Phi about using our group to re-charter their inactive chapters. We accepted the offer from ASP. However, once they found out that I was a Sinfonian all contact from them ended.
We have also looked into expanding a regional or local fraternity but have not been able to find any near us that are willing to do so.
Therefore we have decided to start our own local fraternity to counterbalance via Title IX the local womens group.
While we will always have close ties to Sinfonia, especially to the Alpha Kappa chapter only 40 miles away, we are trying to make an organization not based on any existing one.
Any thoughts, ideas, comments, etc?
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