starting a local - Page 3

anomalistic · #1 10-22-2005, 05:05 PM

One girl did go through rushing with another sorority, but she wasn't well-recieved there.

It's hard to explain how we want ours to be different. Like your GPA would have to be higher to even consider us. So I guess you could consider it academically-based. None of us want to have a fraternity associated with us (there's a word I want, but I can't remember), and I'm pretty sure all of the sororities here have that.

As far as I know, the numbers of the other sororities and fraternities are all relatively high and pledging starts soon and I know a lot of people are interested.

I'm going to throw out the idea of the social to the other women in the group; see what they think. Thanks for that idea.

PrincessBroccol · #2 10-22-2005, 09:01 PM

Well if you give more information, maybe someone can help. I have to ask what, if you don't mind me asking have you set as your constitution, and philanthropy. If you are thinking about a charity, maybe looking into a national or international womens organization. I do have a little advice on the whole just wearing the letters. If you do that, you should also brace yourself for some problems with established sororities on campus. As a little background, I attend a small college with 4 fraternities, and 4 sororities. When there was a rumor on our campus of an underground sorority being started on campus, all of the sororities, including mine felt that it was not right for them to walk around and call themselves a sorority, and not even be recognized on campus. There is also another problem is that if you don't have pledging procedures all in order you will not be able to really function, or put supposed pledges through. But give me some more info, and maybe I can help you out more.

Aduladi · #3 10-22-2005, 09:42 PM

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Originally posted by MissVirginia
An Update

Hey everyone, first of all I just want to say thanks from the bottom of the hearts of every Delta Psi Upsilon sister. We have reached a compromise with our school. We can be a local sorority under the special interest umbrella, not the greek umbrella. We're allowed to use our letters and everything. They are allowing us to function as a sorority but administrative purposes (they said) we are not allowed to use the word "sorority" in our name officailly. We have to refer to ourselves as a society or a sisterhood. Which to me is pretty much the same thing so I just don't get it but whatever. I guess it's better than nothing.

~Virginia

Hi Virginia,

Congrats on the success with moving forward with your sisterhood. While you guys are pioneers on your campus, you may be opening it up for others to bring their organizations to the campus. Greek life can add so much to the college experience, so I wish you and your sisters all the best on your journey.

anomalistic · #4 10-23-2005, 10:58 PM

I was just thinking about it all, and I thought that it might make things more understandable if you knew the main rumor going around. I'm hoping that if you're from my school and you read this, maybe you can realize that we are not bad like you think and you can help us stop some of these rumors. Just by saying, "hey, that's not true".

The biggest rumor going around about my group is that we worship Hitler. Why? The Hitler Youth wore brown shirts. Our colors are brown and orange, and so we will wear brown shirts. This is why we're having such a hard time getting credibility on campus. We first just laughed it off but it's getting very serious. We really can't just have a social with a sorority or fraternity because of this. It's not just that they don't like us because we don't want to join one of their sororities (I know a few women that are pledging now or are already in some of the sororities and I really like them, they're good people) and want our own, but because of that. Telling everyone that we do not want to be affiliated whatsoever with Hitler doesn't seem to be working. We picked our colors for a good reason so we don't want to change them unless absolutely necessary (such as some administration telling us that we have to). We want them to be synonymous (sorry if I spelled that wrong) with community service and strong academics. But we can't do that when everybody thinks we want to be like Hitler. Is there anything that anybody can suggest that will maybe help put a stop to the rumors? Something we can do, something that can be said, whatever. Because I'm thinking (hoping) that if we can end the stories, it will help us gain credibility and allow people to be more open-minded and if we're lucky, accepting.

33girl · #5 10-24-2005, 10:25 AM

Holy crap. Do you go to Bob Jones U or something? That's the most idiotic thing I've ever heard.

G Phi B's colors are brown and mode....maybe they should change their motto to "worshiping Hitler since 1874."

GeekyPenguin · #6 10-24-2005, 10:37 AM

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Originally posted by 33girl
Holy crap. Do you go to Bob Jones U or something? That's the most idiotic thing I've ever heard.

G Phi B's colors are brown and mode....maybe they should change their motto to "worshiping Hitler since 1874."

Excuse me, our colors are brown and mode because we worship chocolate of both the light and dark variety.

PhoenixAzul · #7 10-24-2005, 10:42 AM

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Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
Excuse me, our colors are brown and mode because we worship chocolate of both the light and dark variety.

as it should be!

preciousjeni · #8 10-24-2005, 10:42 AM

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Originally posted by 33girl
Holy crap. Do you go to Bob Jones U or something? That's the most idiotic thing I've ever heard.

G Phi B's colors are brown and mode....maybe they should change their motto to "worshiping Hitler since 1874."

I was thinking the same thing. What is WRONG with people?