New local sorority, any advice?

[rocketgirl]

Hello and welcome to the Michigan greek scene. If you are looking at going national, I would suggest looking now at organizations you are thinking about affiliating with. I just say that because you really want to make sure that the organization affiliates with an org that goes along with your principles and has similar philanthropies/bylaws, ect. Michigan has a LOT of sororities already, multicultural, NPC, national, ect., so be sure you are discounting affililating with them in the future if you are going to have a large local now. It may be harder for you to join a national organization if you started a local organization on a campus where that national already exists because members there will see that you didn't want to be in their organization before. Keep your options open. I'm sure before you started your local, you looked at all of the sororities at Michigan, but just make sure that you don't shoot yourself in the foot, persay.

On joining panhel - Michigan panhel has a LOT of requirements, including the fact you have to have a house, doing their rush, and following their social policy. I believe you have to be a member of the NPC to be a member of the Michigan panhel, but i'm not sure. In order to join NPC, you have to have 13 chapters, so you could not be a local and join NPC. Being a somewhat recent grad of Michigan, I'll tell you your best bet is to become a member of the Multicultural Greek Council because there is no national requirements and there is another local group in the council. I was on this council when I was in undergrad, so feel free to PM me if you have any questions.

Side note...the Phi Sigma Rho's at Michigan call themselves Phi Rhos as well. That might get confusing some day.

Anyway good luck. If you have 25 girls interested already, you must be doing something right. Why affiliate with NPC if you are doing bad by yourself?


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