Switching Fraternities

[JCass21]

How did you go about switching houses? I transferred this fall, but I initiated at a house on my previous campus. I withdrew from the house and had nothing to do with it during the spring. I never signed any type of release form or anything, but now I have begun to pledge at a house here on my new campus. I just don't know how you can get past all the regulations and stuff. thanks.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by JCass21

How did you go about switching houses? I transferred this fall, but I initiated at a house on my previous campus. I withdrew from the house and had nothing to do with it during the spring. I never signed any type of release form or anything, but now I have begun to pledge at a house here on my new campus. I just don't know how you can get past all the regulations and stuff. thanks.

I hope you get found out and dropped from both fraternities.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by JCass21

How did you go about switching houses? I transferred this fall, but I initiated at a house on my previous campus. I withdrew from the house and had nothing to do with it during the spring.

You contact the national office of the fraternity into which you were initiated and ask them if there is a way to be released from membership -- ie, to be released from the pledges and oaths you took -- and if they do, ask what the procedure is. Until you have followed that procedure and been released, you are still a member of the fraternity into which you were initiated and you cannot honestly represent otherwise to the fraternity you're now "pledging."

If you don't do this and pledge ahead anyway, then you are breaking the vows you made to the fraternity you actually are a member of and lying to the new fraternity. Real honorable.