Grand Valley disowns its TKE chapter

[davelu99]

Originally posted by AlphaGam1019
what's a law major??

Well, it's called pre-Law most often. What it is here an some sort of related field of study (in my case International Relations) with an emphasis on Law. I'm also minoring in Criminal Justice.

[33girl]

You still didn't answer my question.

XYZ sorority at GVSU has their charter pulled by their nationals for low membership. They haven't done anything wrong in a disciplinary sense - no hazing, drinking, anything. Since the sorority is no longer recognized by their national HQ, GVSU also withdraws their recognition. Are the sisters who are left allowed to wear letters or not???

I'm not defending this chapter of TKE in any way - from what has been said, they don't deserve to wear the letters and their HQ has taken care of that. You said yourself that they're not TKEs anymore - they have had their membership terminated by their HQ - so anything the university does is a moot point. If they are misrepresenting themselves as TKE, that is a matter for TKE to handle, not the university.

[davelu99]

Originally posted by 33girl
You still didn't answer my question.

XYZ sorority at GVSU has their charter pulled by their nationals for low membership. They haven't done anything wrong in a disciplinary sense - no hazing, drinking, anything. Since the sorority is no longer recognized by their national HQ, GVSU also withdraws their recognition. Are the sisters who are left allowed to wear letters or not???

Well, typically, the University would not withdraw the recognition, but in this case, yes they could still wear letters. It's not about recognition, it's about being expelled. If you lose recognition because of low membership, you're not being expelled. You simply cease to be recognized as a group. This happened to the TriSigs a while back. Their nationals pulled their charter (and it was done in such a horrible way that in front of the entire Greek community, the Provost at GVSU told the President of Sigma Sigma Sigma that they would never be allowed to recolonize GVSU because of the horrible way they treated the girls who did nothing to have their charter revoked), and they became a local sorority which then merged with a different sorority. The issue of not being allowed to wear letters only extends to expelled chapters.