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Originally posted by SIAsensacion
Not to sound ignorant, but what's wrong with merging?
(I know NOTHING about merging, so I don't know why it would be a bad thing.)
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There is nothing wrong with merging.
The "problem" is basically what TheEpitome1920 was alluding to in her post. That ladies who founded a new sorority will not likely want to merge with another group for the fact that people don't want to have to "give up" all of their hard work. Founders are generally leaders and not joiners....that's why they founded. It's a hard pill to swallow to think that it would be better for their sisterhood to merge with a stronger group in order to be truly viable.
In some cases, a smaller MCGLO may truly feel they are not on the same page as a bigger name one and thus they just don't feel right about merging. Though, others mostly want to hold on to their GLOs because it's their baby.
Here's an example: Myself and a few other ladies founded a local special-interest sorority at my uni. Unfortunately we eventually had to go inactive due to unhelpful university administrators who did not want a new org on campus. We first considered colonizing an existing group as we didn't necessarily want to reinvent the wheel. I personally investigated all of the options out there via the internet to see how many other orgs with similar goals already existed. I noticed there were indeed a few. There was one which definitely had a national presence, but it simply wasn't our cup of tea. There were also a couple local groups with one chapter only which seemed strong enough, but didn't appear to have any interest in expansion.
Finally, there was another "semi-national" one which had chapters in my region and they seemed to have an expansion option. I contacted them and got a lot of run around. Sadly, they were too disorganized to get anything moving. The woman in charge told me that she had a family to take care of and that the sorority business would have to take a back seat. That is understandable, family should be first. However, I perceived their organization to be a sort of "oh....uh.....I guess you should call Jane Smith.....uhm.....but...she's kind of busy....so maybe you should call....." instead of one which was serious about running a national organization.
Having investigated all of our options, we felt we were best suited to founding our own organization.
There are LOADS of MCGLOs out there. I am certain that some of these can be merged into others to form some powerhouse sisterhoods. If groups like Theta Nu Xi play their cards right, they just might gain some great chapters.
.....Kelly
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