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[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by ZetaXiDelta

How do you become a member of an org that isn't at your school? I've heard of this but never understood it.

There are two policies going on here:

University policy
Organization policy

A university won't generally dictate what you do with your free time, so you can pledge an "off-campus" chapter of an organization without a problem.

BUT, you can only do this if the organization allows it. For example, at my alma mater (which didn't recognize Greek life) students would either pledge official chapters of AEPi and I think SAE (both have chapters of ONLY Georgetown men) or pledge NPHC organizations that are either city-wide, metropolitan, or core chapters.

Alpha Phi Alpha, for example, has a metropolitan chapter. The chapter was chartered at American for also includes men from Georgetown, George Washington, and Catholic University. But there is another school in DC (Southeastern University) which does not have a chapter. If those men wanted to be initiated into the metro chapter, there would have to be official means taken to add SEU to the chapter's charter.

Also, the chapter will have to apply for "recognition" or "access to benefits" at each school where they wish to hold activities. At Georgetown, this could never happen. Metro/city-wide/core chapters sometimes have problems if most or all of their members attend a non/anti Greek school but the charter is held at a school where there are no members.

SOMETIMES the school will allow the chapter to proceed with activities. Other times, they can't justify non-students having access to university benefits.

So that's how it "works" -- often with great difficulty. but it works.

[IVY BEAUTY]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

There are two policies going on here:

University policy
Organization policy

A university won't generally dictate what you do with your free time, so you can pledge an "off-campus" chapter of an organization without a problem.

BUT, you can only do this if the organization allows it. For example, at my alma mater (which didn't recognize Greek life) students would either pledge official chapters of AEPi and I think SAE (both have chapters of ONLY Georgetown men) or pledge NPHC organizations that are either city-wide, metropolitan, or core chapters.

Alpha Phi Alpha, for example, has a metropolitan chapter. The chapter was chartered at American for also includes men from Georgetown, George Washington, and Catholic University. But there is another school in DC (Southeastern University) which does not have a chapter. If those men wanted to be initiated into the metro chapter, there would have to be official means taken to add SEU to the chapter's charter.

Also, the chapter will have to apply for "recognition" or "access to benefits" at each school where they wish to hold activities. At Georgetown, this could never happen. Metro/city-wide/core chapters sometimes have problems if most or all of their members attend a non/anti Greek school but the charter is held at a school where there are no members.

SOMETIMES the school will allow the chapter to proceed with activities. Other times, they can't justify non-students having access to university benefits.

So that's how it "works" -- often with great difficulty. but it works.

WOW I am impressed, nicely put!!!!

[CULater]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

There are two policies going on here:

University policy
Organization policy

A university won't generally dictate what you do with your free time, so you can pledge an "off-campus" chapter of an organization without a problem.

BUT, you can only do this if the organization allows it. For example, at my alma mater (which didn't recognize Greek life) students would either pledge official chapters of AEPi and I think SAE (both have chapters of ONLY Georgetown men) or pledge NPHC organizations that are either city-wide, metropolitan, or core chapters.

Alpha Phi Alpha, for example, has a metropolitan chapter. The chapter was chartered at American for also includes men from Georgetown, George Washington, and Catholic University. But there is another school in DC (Southeastern University) which does not have a chapter. If those men wanted to be initiated into the metro chapter, there would have to be official means taken to add SEU to the chapter's charter.

Also, the chapter will have to apply for "recognition" or "access to benefits" at each school where they wish to hold activities. At Georgetown, this could never happen. Metro/city-wide/core chapters sometimes have problems if most or all of their members attend a non/anti Greek school but the charter is held at a school where there are no members.

SOMETIMES the school will allow the chapter to proceed with activities. Other times, they can't justify non-students having access to university benefits.

So that's how it "works" -- often with great difficulty. but it works.

Also, can you explain more about "great difficulty"? I'm genuinely interested in learning more about how metro-wide/district wide chapters work, especially if they have members from schools that do not recognize greeks. My undergrad and current grad schools are both huge greek supporters, so I've never had to see if the other point of view. There were a few NPHC orgs on my campus that had no members from our school, and some had to travel over an hour each week to attend our council meetings, etc., and I was wondering how metro chapters function.