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Originally Posted by Barbie's_Rush
Something I have always wondered about the expansion process is how the final group is chosen after the presentations. Occasionally on GC I see things alluded to about how a group aligned with values, goals, etc. and the other groups didn't. Strong presentations and impressive presenters aside, it's hard for me to grasp how one group can prevail because it's not like there are groups that don't value scholarship, are self-proclaimed kitten sacrificers, promote hazing and scoff at community service.
Maybe it's because I haven't been involved with or know anyone who has been involved with the expansion process and everything I know about it I read on GC. It just puzzles me how you go about picking just one.  |
I think "values" is a random catchall word that really often has little to do with actual values of the sorority (unless, as you said, it's a Jewish/Christian thing). The only expansion I knew anything about on our campus, 2 groups came and presented, one larger and one smaller nationally. The girls picked the smaller one, I honestly think mainly because the larger one was talking about things that just weren't commonplace at our campus like house corps and housemothers, very complicated rush strategies etc. It might be that a group has better national resources, but they're also going to ask things from you that might be more than any other group on campus is asking.
This is hands down the best thread ever about what groups think about when picking a national.
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Originally Posted by ASAlamb
Our campus is currently undergoing a two-year expansion process, and though we had a strong interest group last year, they didn't exactly get to pick their national sorority and all initiate together. The decision on which nationals to bring to campus will be made by Panhel, the Greek Life Office, reps from other Greek orgs, and we had some input from the interest group.
In the end, a number of the members of the interest group did not end up with a bid to the first new national to come to campus. This happened for a number of reasons. But the important thing to take away from this is that your interest group may not stay together, and you usually have to interview and go through a sort-of recruitment for new national sororities on campus just like you would more established campus chapters. Expansion is crazy, be ready for it.
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So in other words you guys were expanding anyway - the expansion process/timeline was already moving forward - and the interest group popped up independently of that? And then wanted to just basically plop themselves down in the colony?
In Hannah's case, it sounds like they've been working w/ the GLC from the beginning and he/she wants a group to be chosen that will take them all.
Like Zillini said - taking all members of an interest group IS something that Panhel or a GA can ask of a national. The trick is making sure they all get initiated. In the case I was talking about above, some of the strongest members of the interest group didn't initiate. I think they were just turned off by the having to get x number of women to charter and other things like that - in other words I think they would have probably gotten annoyed by that with ANY sorority. They'd been, in effect, running a fraternity AND little sis org for quite a while and doing it very well and I don't think they cottoned to someone stepping in and telling them what to do.
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