Advise Needed!

[hbk09]

I attend school in New England with about 5,000 students; 9 Fraternities and 3 sororities. We had a fourth sorority but they were expelled and their entire new member class (40 girls) were released from their bids. Additionally, during formal recruitment last spring about 40 girls didn't receive bids from any sororities because there weren't enough sororities for all the girls that went thru recruitment. My point is that there is a need for a new sorority on my campus because about 80 girls are interested in joining greek life and have no where to go. We met with our greek life advisor and while he wants to expand, he says that our campus is currently under review by a greek task force and we won't be able to expand until they're done investigating (assuming everything goes well) which won't be for at least a year. Many of us are juniors and don't want to wait until the end of the year to start the expansion process when realistically we probably won't see it through because we will all graduate in the middle of the process. We met with our Greek Advisor last spring about expansion and he said we would be able to start the process after informal recruitment this fall and now that it's the fall he's pushing it back again. It doesn't make sense because the current sororities were able to take new members this fall (during the investigation) but we aren't able to start expansion even though there is a clear need for it. We thought about starting a local sorority but don't know how to go about it. Being a part of greek life is very important to us but our greek advisor is very "flakey" and we have a feeling that come the end of this investigation he'll have another excuse for us about why we can't expand. What can we do?? We originally wanted a NPC sorority but now we're open to local too, whichever one we can get the ball rolling on soonest. It has been a very long process with a lot of dead ends and it's incredibly frustrating. Any advise would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!