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starting a local
Hi Everybody!
Okay so here's the deal. Myself and five other girls (my sisters) are in the process of starting a local sorority. Our school is very diverse but Greek life doesn't show that. All of the Greek orgs are divided by race. Therefore we wanted to start a multicultural sorority. We first tried to start a chapter of another MC sorority but that didn't work out. We didn't really share the same beliefs and whatnot. We then decided to start our own from stratch. We have done pretty much everything. We have our name, colors, symbols, mascot, jewel, constitution, philanthropy, facutly advisor, everything! We've been to all of the required meetings for new student orgs and filled out all the forms. Now they're saying they don't recognized local sororities because they feel we need a national org to govern us so they don't have a "sorority life situation." They did say that we could keep our name and drop the sorority part and just register as a student organization. Is it advisable to just do that or should we (as some of the sisters suggest) just try to register ourselves nationally as some type of charity or women's organization? I really feel like that would have us posing as something we're not.
Also, on another note, the only things we haven't done are figure out dues, rituals, and the offical pledge process. Barring that, we are a local sorority not affiliated with any school yet. Would it be kosher or whatever for us to wear our letters and what not? Also what do other sororities generally due for dues, rituals, and pledging (if this can be shared even a little)?
Thanks so much for any help you can give.
Yours in Greekdom,
Virginia
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