In what circumstances would you support reorganization or closing?

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Doubtful, unless it's a "do or die" sort of school, and as we've seen here, that may not even be worth the effort. I doubt very much that my sorority will ever try an immediate recolonization again unless there are very special circumstances. And now that this practice has been brought to light on a nationwide basis, any group that tries it would just be foolish.

In this exact way, having a review etc, a GLO would have to be crazy to try that again. To wait until the end of the school year, that would be a different story. I can name at least 5 GLOs who consider that policy.

I think the university would have allowed a recolonization if it would have happened immediately (i.e. this spring) and if the women would have had their housing question taken care of by the national sorority and the Delta chapter house corp. This whole thing just showed a serious lack of planning.

Last year, one of our chapters was closed with a definite recolonization date set, with cooperation of the local Panhellenic. I feel that's the way any chapter closing/recolonization should be handled - unless there's a house or such involved. I honestly don't know how that could/should be handled.

And I agree - this specific example shows a definite lack of planning!

[33girl]

Originally Posted by honeychile

In this exact way, having a review etc, a GLO would have to be crazy to try that again. To wait until the end of the school year, that would be a different story. I can name at least 5 GLOs who consider that policy.

Given the amount of publicity on this story though - any group that tries to immediately do it will probably have a problem, even if they do wait until the end of the school year, unless the current members of the chapter come forward and say they're OK with it. People who haven't really been mentioned in this DePauw affair are the women who were given bids/accepted bids/were technically still pledging. I can't imagine what they must be going through.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Given the amount of publicity on this story though - any group that tries to immediately do it will probably have a problem, even if they do wait until the end of the school year, unless the current members of the chapter come forward and say they're OK with it. People who haven't really been mentioned in this DePauw affair are the women who were given bids/accepted bids/were technically still pledging. I can't imagine what they must be going through.

Agreed about doing this in the coming year. They really shouldn't have even taken a new member class, if this was even considered at the time.

I wouldn't be at all surprised to see these "unwanted" women form a local, and for several others to jump on their bandwagon.