"anti-Greek" student govn't

[Siobhan]

Originally posted by MooseGirl

The thing is if we lose club status we have to PAY to use rooms and all posters have to be approved by their staff. As well, this year the university created a no poster rule for anywhere outside of certain areas in certain buildings, ie no lamp posts, no walls, no benches etc...

That's crazy if you loose club status that you will have to pay. UBC's Panhel and IFC only just club status a couple of years ago and before that if we wanted to use a room we didn't pay and we have always been allowed to poster around campus (except in res). What uni are you at?

[Eirene_DGP]

Fortunately, our school incourages participation of all student orgs in SGA. Actually, everyone in our SGA is Greek with the exception of 2 people. I don't know how your school does it, but our school has an organization meeting with all the orgs. at the beginning of the year to review new rules and see what the STUDENTS want since our activity fees pay for the events.

[cherub]

You've got a good shot with your area alum. Head offices will be able to send you an upcdates mailing list for your area and you can take it from there. Loading the election can work...just get all GLO members out and have them bring two friends. In reality, most people don't make educated votes, they vote for the person who's a friend of a friend or whose name they remember. It's all about numbers, so you can definitely make them work for you.

Siobhan, a lot of schools here don't get nearly the support that UBC does (lucky people ) You've got a great school Panhel AND a fantastic Vancouver Panhellenic association that, from what I've read, is very active as well.

I understand about the postering issue. We've had members poster in residences, which they weren't supposed to do, and we've been fined for that before. Even bathroom stalls are a no...but there's nothing against decorating your door, and that's what a lot of us did