Colonization and initiation. Beginning. Middle. End?

[RU OX Alum]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

For your GLOs expansion process, at what point is the initiation of the members?

Are they initiated at the same time the chapter is chartered -- at the end of the whole thing?

Are they pledged, then initiated, then have a probationary period before the chapter is chartered?

Are they initiated at the very beginning without a pledge process and then work toward chartering?

Is it somewhere in between or none of these?

I am curious.... some of my questions about Pike at Howard still linger and now I want to know how all types of GLOs might go about this.

I feel like I asked this before, so if I did, my bad.

Well, first there is an interest group. Which means you are totally on your own, pretty much, until you get enough people/interest to start a Colony. Then there will be a Colonization Ceremony or some other suchness. As an interest group you're not really recognized by campus, can't schedule meetings in the union, not part of ifc, HOWEVER, if you are part of a interest group and then leave, your chances - depending on campus- of getting bid somewhere else are pretty slim.

After you are a colony you can take pledges, usually. These pledges get totally hosed because they don't just pledge to join, they pledge to become a founding father, and then have to still do all the installation work after they are finished pledging.

Once all the standards have been met (your chapter size is about average for your campus, you're not failing classes, etc.) you get installed. To answer your question, the night before installation, we were initiated by members from other chpaters (you have to be brothers to start a chapter so you are all initiated first, then installed)

Then you get installed and be prepared to do the really hard work, establishing yourself, etc. (because IFC didn't like you at all as a colony and will hate you even more for making it) and it really is the first year or two AFTER initiation/instalation that the "laying the foundation" really happens.

Hope that helped.


ETA: Colonists go through the Pledge Ceremony, so the pledges to the Colony are actually Pledging other Pledges

[33girl]

The interest group has requirements to fulfill for chartering. Women are not initiated as members until those requirements are met. This is eons ago, but if I recall, the women are initiated and then the chapter itself is installed (on the same evening that is). If there's someone who wishes to be initiated and she graduates before the chapter is fully chartered, she can be initiated as an alumna.

[Thetagirl218]

My colonization experience was fairly similar to the others that have been posted thus far. When the chapter was colonized, I was a new member, when we were chartered, I went through initiation.

Originally Posted by RU OX Alum

ETA: Colonists go through the Pledge Ceremony, so the pledges to the Colony are actually Pledging other Pledges

This was the process for some of my guy friends who were founding fathers of their fraternity. They had a Fall pledge class, and a Spring pledge class during which time they were a colony and all of them were pledges. They all became the Alpha class when they were initiated in the end of the Spring when the chapter was chartered.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by Thetagirl218

This was the process for some of my guy friends who were founding fathers of their fraternity. They had a Fall pledge class, and a Spring pledge class during which time they were a colony and all of them were pledges. They all became the Alpha class when they were initiated in the end of the Spring when the chapter was chartered.

Interesting. With us, once the colonists have pledged (the beginning of Phase II that I described above), no other men can join the colony until after initiation/chartering. Again, though, that occurs 8 weeks after pledging.