Initiated, Transferring to a School with a Colony

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by Greek_or_Geek?

I like it in theory, but sometimes in practice things can end up messy and tear a chapter apart.

I'm not talking about the superficial situations where "Nancy Nu is way too fat and ugly to be one of us." More of the situations where Sally Sigma had to leave her previous school primarily because of behavioral and reputation issues and continues right down that path at the new school.

If this is the case, though, her first chapter should be dealing with her behavior, and if she is suspended (or even expelled) from her chapter, she is not in good standing.

Let's be honest, there is hardly ever a good reason not to let someone affiliate.

[Old_Row]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

Let's be honest, there is hardly ever a good reason not to let someone affiliate.

I think that's highly subjective depending on whether your experience is with a chapter in its final death throes or one that is extremely competitive and selective.

[Tulip86]

Originally Posted by Old_Row

I think that's highly subjective depending on whether your experience is with a chapter in its final death throes or one that is extremely competitive and selective.

I'm just curious why?
Because an affiliation of a sister in good standing doesn't seem like a problem to me. She's an initiated sister and is there really a difference between initiated sisters from different chapters? Because this makes it sound like sisters from "chapters in its final death throes" are somehow not good enough for the "extremely competitive chapter".

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by AzTheta

And some (IMO progressive) GLOs will let anyone affiliate anywhere at any time (provided that they are members in good standing and meet academic requirements, for example).

After all, if you are an initiated member of your fraternity/sorority, you've already gone through one membership selection process, and you shouldn't ever have to go through another, correct?

*sits back and waits for it...*

I agree.

[AnchorAlumna]

There's a theory that you can't affiliate with a chapter that doesn't exist, and a colony is not a chapter.
Unless, of course, you've got language in your regulations and policies that allow affiliation with a colony.

[DubaiSis]

And if I may, if you're going to speak about my sorority, please use the correct letters. It's A Xi D or Alpha Xi or Alpha Xi Delta. There is no z within any of the 3 Greek letters.

It's a huge peeve of mine.

And back to the discussion at hand, the OP isn't sure she's transferring yet (as she said) and it doesn't sound like she's leaving under any sort of negative cloud that would interfere with her being welcomed with open arms. Although it MAY be true that she couldn't/shouldn't affiliate until after the colony turns into a chapter, she has been given the correct contact information to make sure she has her information from the source. And she's not transferring FOR the colony, it's just a nice bonus to her education. Hopefully she will let us all know what happens when the rubber hits the road.

[33girl]

OMGWTFBBQ. It's not even a frigging colony yet let alone a chapter. This is NOTHING like "ABC doesn't allow you to pledge at crappy chapter Podunk U and then transfer to super popular chapter at SEC U." THAT is what those kinds of rules are for.

I think all the "you're going to be president because you're already a sister!" jazz is ridiculous. It could be that the Greek system AS A WHOLE at the new school (if in fact she does transfer) is LIGHT YEARS away from her old school, and she has no desire to be part of it - even as an Alpha Xi Delta. It could be that she doesn't get along with the colony members that are chosen. It could be that the expenses will be a lot more than what she is currently paying/able to pay. Or it could be that she reconsiders and doesn't transfer at all.

This isn't just putting the cart before the horse, this is the horse's parents haven't even had sex to conceive the horse yet.

[justgo_withit]

OP here- ideally, I would like to help out if they needed help with anything (and I've seen that colonies are a lotttt of work, so I would anticipate that I could do some things to lighten the load) and get to know the colony women, but after watching a friend serve as a colony president I don't think I'd be comfortable holding such pivotal positions as colony e-board. Additionally, I may be cutting it too close to the transfer deadline for fall so I maybe pushing back when I transfer, so that changes some things.

[DubaiSis]

33girl, as always, you kill me. Thankfully in this case, the only person here that matters knows all this. But it is unfortunate that bad, confusing, unnecessarily negative information gets kept here for the ages. As far as helping answer the original question, it was answered with "you need to contact the ELC in charge of the expansion team." Everything else is either a thread stray (nothing wrong with that) or just kind of harsh. Maybe some NPC sororities are really restrictive about what their membership can do, but in the case of Alpha Xi Delta (and we are virtually unrepresented in the SEC) I'd say we are quite free and easy. The advice I would give is make sure you talk to an alumna, either your chapter adviser or someone at FHQ, not for approval, but to make sure you do everything right.