Starting a local sorority!

[misscherrypie]

Having been through this exact situation, then starting a club as your school is requesting that you do, here's my advice.

A club that was started because you and your group of friends didn't fit into any existing group isn't going to have longevity. A club that fits an unmet niche that a large number of other students could identify with would.

The club that I put a lot of time and energy into trying to get my alma mater to recognize as a local coed sorority is about to fold. I've just graduated, and it hurts to see all that hard work result in something that hasn't stood the test of time. There wasn't a large enough niche to be served on my campus that the organization could thrive and attract and bring in new members. We were only able to recruit a total of *one* new member in the course of a year. The same kinds of things that our group did, people did with their friends, including socializing, parties, girls only time and volunteer work and raising funds for good causes. The only difference between us and any other student club was that we had ritual, handshakes and a Greek letter name.

In the end, it was a hard lesson to learn that there wasn't a lasting place for the local organization.