New to the site - looking to start a local and need help!

[knight_shadow]

Great news!

You need 16 new members or 16 members total to show interest to the student activities board?

[OLD_GOLD3]

Despite the appearance CUNY has a large Greek system, not traditional but its there. Alpha Sigma is a popular local multicultural org to my knowledge that is at most of the CUNY schools there are also a bunch other locals that are specific to certain schools. If you look on Facebook there is CUNY Greek life group, join the group I believe there is a list of organizations there. Also there are a bunch of national organizations that have citywide chapters that you could apply to. Ultimately I would say find an organization that suits you and contact the nearest chapter in your area, in most cases there is probably a chapter or member(s) at your school.

[xxstardust]

We need a minimum of 16 people who are willing to put their contact info on a list saying they're interested in joining the organization. They don't actually have to ever follow through with it, join, etc - but I've have 65 responses so far and a good number of them have offered help with anything we need - paperwork, advertising, looking for advisers, really everything. I've even had one girl who was in a sorority at the school she transferred from who is really interested in helping get organized. So things are looking good!

I emailed the SA director last night with a description of our group and why we feel we'd be a good addition to the campus community, so she could consider it and see about getting us a table at the activities fair. She opened it at 11:30 last night but hasn't replied yet. I know she's very busy and has other things to deal with first, but eeek! It's everything I can do to keep myself from compulsively checking my email. =]

My partner-in-crime and I are going to get things ready for the fair today, even though we haven't heard from her yet - since the fair is this Friday, we don't want to be left with nothing to show people if we don't find out quickly enough! We're going to make a big poster for the table this afternoon, and may even craft ourselves some teeshirts.

Wish us luck!!

Old_gold - I don't go to a CUNY school, but thank you for the information about the citywide chapters. If in the end, this goes bust (fingers crossed that it doesn't!) that's something I'd definitely look into. I live in a small suburban town at school, though, so I don't know how that'd pan out.

[DubaiSis]

If you've actually found a decent group of women who are interested, it may be possible to get an NPC group to colonize on campus. I have to tell you I don't know how one would do it AT ALL, but it would still probably be easier than starting your own local.

Good luck. It sounds like quite a challenge!

[xxstardust]

Our biggest issue with colonizing a NPC sorority on our campus isn't interest, but getting the school administration to say yes (NPC won't allow extension without approval from the university/college). We've been really anti-Greek in the past, but like I said, attitudes are changing (yay!). They're doing it very slowly, however, so while we're starting a local we are starting our local with the intent to petition NPC to expand to our campus. We'd like to do that quickly ... but we think that by starting a local and showing our school how beneficial we can really be to the campus community, we can soften the negative attitude towards GLOs and hopefully get a national to take our local on as a colony!

In more recent news - WE OFFICIALLY HAVE A TABLE AT THE ACTIVITY FAIR! Yay, I'm so excited!! Sarah and I are headed to the craft store to get poster board and stuff in a few minutes, so we can have a great, informative and attractive table for Friday.