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