This was pretty much the situation at my school--all five BGLOs represented were city-wide chapters.
While we did not receive the funding that most PWGLOs received on campus, we did have a little more latitude in our activities. My chapter had a box in the SA office and was allowed to host activities on campus so it wasn't all the way hands-off.
I don't recall that there was any move to form the type of council of which you spoke but it does sound like a good idea to implement. Many of our collective activities were done in association with the BSU, of whom most of the officers were Greek anyway so maybe that was why the council-type of org was not needed.
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Originally posted by stalder:
I am a Trustee of a national GLO and served as an IFC VP during my undergraduate days. The biggest obstacle (beyond the cultural obstacles mentioned previously in this thread, such as "everyone wants to join their 'own' group") to getting more interaction between GLOs and BGLOs at Case Western Reserve U. is that many BGLOs are organized on a city-wide basis.
Many universities will not officially recognize a group that consists of students and non-students of that university. So, for the longest time, BGLOs have not been officially recognized on campus for this reason.
So, the BGLOs got together and formed a Black Greek Council that consists of only the members of each chapter that actually attend CWRU. That collective body is now represented in the CWRU IFC as one whole.
Due to this situation, it's more difficult to organize collective events using university funds with BGLOs at CWRU. The university doesn't want the activities money paid for by students to fund activities for non-students. Those fees are separate from the money students pay in tuition and they generally keep a pretty tight leash on how that money gets spent, Greek or non-Greek.
I'm not sure if all BGLOs are organized this way, but one way around this issue would be to break down the city-wide chapter organizational unit into "virtual" campus-specific organizational units so we can get around this sort of thing. BGLO members that are actually students at CWRU would then be able get additional campus resources they are not able to get today.
That's just one suggestion I have to get more involvement between GLOs and BGLOs. I'm not sure if this is an issue on any other campus, but it seems to have been an impediment at CWRU for some time now.
Interfraternally,
Rob
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