Local in Trouble

[aephi alum]

Don't lose hope. I know it seems like an uphill battle - but just take it one step at a time. Pull your sisters together, bring in a few enthusiastic new members, fulfill those requirements you mentioned, and go from there.

Take care.

After posting that thread I decided to call 2 out of my 3 sisters because I don't have the 3rd's number. Honestly, I was surprised. I first called my Big (our VP) who ended up talking with me for an hour and getting my enthusiasm back. I guess that's what Bigs are for! Anyway, she is glad to see someone having such enthusiasm and we talked a lot about different ideas we may have for the chapter. She agreed that we need to meet before classes start up so I'm trying to arrange that as well.

I also called my pledge sister. She and I are pretty much opposites so I was pleasantly surprised when she said that she would love to be put down as an officer for that stupid piece of paper.

I am obviously not losing hope knowing that most of my sisters are willing to put in the hard work to keep us going, but an e-mail from our Greek advisor has kept me grounded. She explained that if we cannot find a 5th sisters to take the responsibilities of an officer position than we must appeal to the Associate Dean of Students & Director of Campus Life seeking permission to go on as an organization. The ultimate decision is up to that dean and quite frankly, I'm scared. Our Greek advisor also explained that maybe we should take some time to strengthen our chapter as it currently exists instead of going through formal recruitment. I honestly think that is a great idea. By the time formal is over, I would hope that our chapter is strong enough to COB and get some new girls initiated by the end of Fall semester. Anyway, there's my update. Thank you all for your support!

Greek to Greek,
That1LoudChick

[33girl]

Just to clarify, you will have time to do this when you get back to school, won't you? I mean, I hope your Greek advisor is not expecting you to complete all this over summer when school isn't even in session.

[aephi alum]

A crazy idea...

Do all 5 people have to be current students? If not, maybe one of your alums can sign?

At my school, a group could be recognized as a student organization as long as at least half the group were students - undergrad or grad.

I know it's a long shot...

Originally posted by aephi alum
A crazy idea...

Do all 5 people have to be current students? If not, maybe one of your alums can sign?

At my school, a group could be recognized as a student organization as long as at least half the group were students - undergrad or grad.

I know it's a long shot...

That's a great question! I just e-mailed our Greek advisor asking her that so I should get a reply in about a day. I'll keep you all posted on our status!

Greek to Greek,
That1LoudChick

P.S. Thanks again for all of your support- it means a lot to me as well as my sisters.

I e-mailed our Greek advisor and she said the a sister must have at least 3 credit hours to be put on that piece of paper. The sister who came back from studying abroad still has yet to e-mail me concerning whether or not she will be active next semester. Our president finally responded to an e-mail I sent and said she wanted me to bring these things up at our first chapter meeting so I'm going to take the rest of the summer off to just chill out. All of us will be back in a month and I have a lot of things I need to take care of at home so I'm going to do that. Thank you all once again for your support! I'll update you as soon as I find out any new news!

Greek to Greek,
That1LoudChick

[AOX81]

E-mail me if you guys need help with anything. I'm really close.

[tunatartare]

Hey LoudChick, I'm gonna bump this thread for ya. I'm in a local sorority at my school and so we usually have smaller numbers, but not by much. This year we have about 22 members because around 13 or 14 graduated last year. (My school really isn't big on Greek Life, our largest sorority has maybe 45 girls.) One thing that we and some of the other sororities on campus do to spread our name around campus is hold non-rush events for freshmen. For instance, in the winter, we will have a finals study break in the lounge of one of the freshmen dorms where we'll bring pizza, soda, etc there and we can talk to the girls about anything (including being in a sorority). That way, when they come back to rush in the Spring, they're going to be more likely to remember us and will know us more personally outside of the rush room. If you have any other questions or whatnot, feel free to pm me.
-Masha

[Tom Earp]

Has been 2 months since Louds last post. Maybe the ship sank. It would be a very tuff road to hoe for sure.

Have to have #s to stay a Local, and must have #s to try to affiliate with a National!

After having seen what happened to ZTA at the U. Of Kansas, I sometimes wonder what the hell is going on!

Having Founded a Local, and being lucky enuff to have affiliated with LXA by the end of the school year, it still took 3 years before we met the requirments to get our Charter.

I tried to post this really long message on here, but GreekChat got mad cuz I took too long so I'm gonna give everyone the basics. We are FINALLY having a chapter meeting this coming Wednesday to figure out what will happen next. In the past few months I have been leaving it all up to our president because I've been scolded for doing otherwise and now I'm just burnt out. Please understand my position here. I thank you all for your loving support and will post after the meeting on Wednesday.

Greek to Greek,
That1LoudChick

[socialbutterfly]

I really hope everything works out for you. My chapter right now is going through something simliar, so I can relate to your fustration with other chapter members and the stress of thinking your chapter might not stay active.

I've decided that its time for me to also to step up and do something...everyone wants things done, but its hard to get everyone to help out. Keep focused and don't give up...right now your sisters need you to be the motivated one so they can follow. Just remeber you can't do everything yourself or you will get burnt out fast and start to resent your sisters for you doing all the work.

Let us know how everything works out.

[AEPhiSierra]

My advice would be to go through rush and see what happens before you decide on a final plan. I think I agree with your choice to take yourself out of formal rush -- maybe its not right but I think most pnm's will write you off because of your numbers. With COB'ing emphasize the fact that your chapter is rebuilding, new members have a chance to get in on the ground floor, there are more chances to have leaderships positions right away and they will have more of say in the direction of your chapter than they would in the national chapters.

As for affiliating with a national I would say you should give it a try even if your small. One of the benefits is support you can receive from having a larger almunae base, which I think you have seen the disadvantages of not having. My guess (though I guess I don't really have anything to base this on) is to approach the smaller nationals. I would think they probably have a greater hunger for expansion and might considering yor smaller numbers better than starting off with nothing.

Not only are we staying on campus, but we're rushing in a few weeks! We already have some great theme party ideas and I am SOOO excited! I'll keep you all posted on how things go!

Greek to Greek,
That1LoudChick

[adpialumcsuc]

Glad you guys are staying. Good luck at Rush!! Let us know how it works out

[AOX81]

Yay!! If you guys ever need help, I'm just around the corner!!