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Originally Posted by NoclueWhattoDo
We did at one point on campus have Greek life and from what I am told when they were offered a large donation in exchange for getting rid of Greek life they took it.
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That's an oft-repeated urban legend applied to many schools.
There are instances where NPC groups will keep an ACTIVE chapter open when it's been determined that the school's reasons for de-recognizing Greek life are uber lame and the chapter/system itself has little or no risk management issues. See: University of Santa Clara and Princeton U. However, coming in and starting a new chapter is another matter entirely.
Your best bet is to keep the secret societies going, but transform them from "party societies" to groups which truly serve the campus and the community like Greek organizations would. If you act honorably, the school will look stupid for saying Greeks are awful and may just cave to recognizing national groups on campus. It's not going to happen overnight though.
Oh, and if you are at a very religious/church-sponsored school, none of this applies. You could all keep your noses clean 100% of the time and the school won't cave. This is something everyone knew when they enrolled at this sort of institution.
There are also schools who aren't particularly religious but don't want national groups on campus because it would mean they'd have to cede a degree of control (Grove City College I'm looking at you). The last 2 sentences of the above paragraph apply again.
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