Three Sororities Selected to Present at Northwestern

[Tippiechick]

Originally Posted by AXiD670

Sigma Delta Tau, Alpha Xi Delta and Zeta Tau Alpha have been chosen to make presentations.

Article.

ETA: Ooops, posted before I finished my thoughts.

I'm a little surprised that ZTA's national president would say this:

"We'll give them an overview of the fraternity, foundation and housing corporation," she said. "I'd say of the three entities, we're the strongest nationally."

Un-panhellenic maybe. But, true. Everyone knows I could pretty much care less about being really panhellenic. To say that SDT or AXiD are as strong would be incorrect in my opinion. I am glad she had the balls to say the truth.

Originally Posted by Tippiechick

Un-panhellenic maybe. But, true. Everyone knows I could pretty much care less about being really panhellenic. To say that SDT or AXiD are as strong would be incorrect in my opinion. I am glad she had the balls to say the truth.

The truth, maybe...but for what purpose? Convincing NU's PHC to select ZTA? If PHC did select ZTA, I seriously doubt that it'd solely be because of the fact ZTA's stronger nationally than the other two.

If anything that comment probably raised many eyebrows, especially coming from a national president.

But we all know that inter/national presidents aren't perfect.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by OTW

The truth, maybe...but for what purpose? Convincing NU's PHC to select ZTA? If PHC did select ZTA, I seriously doubt that it'd solely be because of the fact ZTA's stronger nationally than the other two.

If anything that comment probably raised many eyebrows, especially coming from a national president.

But we all know that inter/national presidents aren't perfect.

I would really like to know if that was the whole quote, because it seems like something that could very easily be taken out of context and make them look very unpanhellenic. Depending on the culture of the campus, it could mess w/ their chances for this expansion oppportunity. You'd think a national president would avoid saying things that could bite them in the butt and make them or their group look bad.



stop laughing, Sandy.

[SigKapSweetie]

This has very, very little to do with this thread, but I thought it was interesting. At Wittenberg, there is one chapter with a one-letter designation (ADPi's Chi chapter), but there are two sororities (GPhiB and KD) whose Alpha Nu chapters are on that campus. Funny coincidence!

[alum]

Originally Posted by SigKapSweetie

This has very, very little to do with this thread, but I thought it was interesting. At Wittenberg, there is one chapter with a one-letter designation (ADPi's Chi chapter), but there are two sororities (GPhiB and KD) whose Alpha Nu chapters are on that campus. Funny coincidence!

Could that be because the 2 groups were founded at the same time or that all the sororities were colonized or chartered at the same time? I remember at a couple of schools that we researched that the schools had long histories of local sororities but the university forced the locals to affiliate nationally in order to remain recognized. I think 2 glos happened to have the same chapter designation.

[TSteven]

Originally Posted by alum

Could that be because the 2 groups were founded at the same time or that all the sororities were colonized or chartered at the same time? I remember at a couple of schools that we researched that the schools had long histories of local sororities but the university forced the locals to affiliate nationally in order to remain recognized. I think 2 glos happened to have the same chapter designation.

The University of Nebraska not only has many single letter chapter designations, but different chapters with the same letter.

Note: Eleven out of fourteen active chapters have a single letter and three out five inactive. However, not all were chartered before 1900.

Z = AOP and DZ (inactive)
K = DG, DDD and CW
P = GFB and KD
R = AXD and KAQ

FYI: Other chapters with sign letter designation:

Q = SDT (inactive)
M = QFA (inactive)
N = AF
X = ACW
S = KKG

[FSUZeta]

to explain npc expansion in a nutshell:

1. campus panhellenic and administration decide that campus needs another sorority

2. they notify national panhellenic conference hdqtrs. that they are looking to expand

3. npc sends out notification to all npc sororities headquarters

4. all interested npc sororities send an information packet to the school

5. administration and panhellenic officers go thru packets and choose a certain number to make presentations on campus.

6. sororities make presentations

7. campus greek life officers (and perhaps admin.) take a vote on which group they want and extend an invitation to that sorority to colonize.

those voting may vary from campus to campus, but i believe that it usually happens this way.

Originally Posted by 33girl

stop laughing, Sandy.

Sorry, I can't help it! Thank you for giving me the haha I needed this morning.

[FSUZeta]

the scenario we have been discussing was not an interest group contacting one sorority directly, but a college contacting npc to say that are opening their campus for expansion.

however, as you noted, interest groups may form, and with the consent of their campus administrators and panhellenic, contact a sorority for possible colonization.

[amanda6035]

They still went through the process of contacting npc of the desire to expand. Three orgs were interested, and came to present. I think the biggest difference (at least from what I can tell) is that out of those orgs, the interest group picked the one they wanted, rather than the university picking for them.

[ZTAngel]

Has anyone heard anything? Have all the groups made their presentations?