Can i switch sororities

Frat — A nickname for a fraternity or a fraternity brother. IFC members generally find this to be offensive; however, NPHC fraternities use it as a mark of respect for each other. Frater — A term used to identify members of the same fraternity; sometimes used to refer to any fraternity man of an NPHC organization.

Fraternity — A group of people brought together because of mutual interests. Generally thought of as a group of men, but also refers to co-ed organizations and many sororities are officially fraternities. Greek — Not the nationality. Greek in this sense means a member of a fraternity or sorority. Greenbook — Manual of Information the informal name for the handbook containing procedural, instructional and practical information about National Panhellenic Conference NPC , college and alumnae Panhellenics.

The handbook has green covers. Greeting — Greetings are defined as formalized ways in which a potential new member is required to address a current member of the organization in which skits, songs, prose, etc. Only initiated members will know the handshake. Hazing is against the law in all states and is against the principles of all fraternities and sororities. Often happens because of finances, personal reasons, grades, etc.

Hot Boxing — Members of Greek organizations putting pressure on potential members to join. House — A physical facility usually used to hold meetings and other events. House Corporation — The entity that holds the title to property that a chapter lives or meets in. This is usually an alumni group like an advisory board. Inactive Member — A member who has elected to become inactive in fraternity or sorority life for various reasons.

In-House Legacy — A potential new member who has a sibling who is currently a collegian in the organization. For instance, if you are going through recruitment, and your biological sister is an active member at that school, you are an in-house legacy to that organization. If your sister has already graduated and left the school, you are considered to be a regular legacy.

Initiate — A person who has recently learned the ritual of a fraternity or sorority and is a full member. Initiation ceremonies are private and different for all organizations.

Intake — Term for the process by which NPHC members are selected to become new members of an organization. Interest Group — A group of individuals on campus in the first stage of the process leading to installation as a chapter of a Greek-letter organization. Lavaliere — A necklace with the sorority letters, often worn by members.

Lavaliering is a process where a fraternity member would give his lavaliere to his girlfriend, as a sign of a serious relationship. Some organizations also include grandchildren or stepchildren.

Sorority rules sometimes dictate she cannot be cut from the first round of parties, but in no way are legacies guaranteed a bid from the organization they are a legacy to.

Letters — The first Greek letter of each Greek word that makes up the name of the fraternity or sorority are often displayed on clothing. They are the potential new members of the organization.

Lines are often given names. Local — An organization that is not part of an incorporated Greek organization, typically only found on one campus. Mascot — A symbol, usually an animal, chosen to represent a Greek letter organization. New Member — After receiving and accepting a bid, the person becomes a new member.

Formerly called a pledge, sometimes called Associate Member. New Member Pin — A distinctive badge worn on the chest designating a new member of a particular fraternity or sorority for the period of time between bid acceptance and initiation.

A lot of info, but depending on what sorority this girl is a member of probably dictates whether she even CAN disaffiliate not all sororities allow this, or call it something a lot different or if she could join another sorority. There probably are a lot of variables involved.

Umm, I know none of the chapters here at Ole Miss would even consider a woman who was a fully initiated member of another sorority and she wanted to join something else. To me that is cheating the system. However, if she pledges somewhere and then depledges, then I know she would have to wait a year from when she depledged Anyway, perhaps sorority life was not meant for her.

From the Panhellenic Compact: 7. When a pledge transfers to another campus, her pledge is broken, and she is eligible to pledge an NPC fraternity on that campus at the earliest opportunity.

However, if I am initiated, I cannot. Originally posted by tld p. Good reasons to leave an orgnization to me is finicial reasons, medical reasons, and sometimes I will go along with the "It's not right for me" because sometimes a lady will join and later find out that a sorority isn't for her and I totally understand that.

Unless the rules have changed, that's not true. She returned to FSU for her junior year, and had a real bad falling out with her sorority.

She resigned. A few months later, she joined the colony of another NPC sorority, and she did wear her new letters on campus. If this was against the rules, it would have been very obvious that an infraction was being flaunted. Originally posted by russellwarshay Unless the rules have changed, that's not true. The rules have not changed in many years, but it IS true that you cannot be an initiated member of two NPC groups. If this happened the way you say, then it was still against the rules.

Originally posted by tld You're correct on that assumption. It's possible the woman never initiated because of grades and of course when she came back to school, her window of opportunity was expired which is most likely what caused the falling out.

I'm not totally positive, but I believe there IS a way to check this. On recruitment applications, there is usually a question that goes something like "Have you ever been a new member or initiated member of any sorority? Some people won't disclose that information, but I'm sure that if there was any reason to doubt what a PNM has written, the college Panhellenic could definitely find out. I mean, there are 26 national offices and that really isn't too many phone calls to make when it has to do with something that's pretty important to the NPC.

I'm sure someone else has a better answer, but that's how I understand it. It happened on the same campus. She pledged the first in Fall '84, and I believe that she was initiated early in Spring ' She joined the second one in Fall '86, and was initiated in Spring ' I knew her because she was dating one of my brothers.

She told me how she had to turn in her badge from the first one, along with her letters. She kept her pictures. Because there is NO fail-proof way of preventing that from happening, unless someone actually sees a sister they knew to be in one house being a sister in another house. Most NPC groups get between 1, and 5, new members every year. It's just not feasible. And if you're talking to a girl during rush and she says, oh, I transferred from XXX school, you're not going to be thinking, was she in a house there?

At least, I wouldn't, because you dont like to think that people would lie. But some people definetly have no problem with that. I myself have seen it happen - a friend of a friend went through rush at her school, and joined an amazing house. Loved it, but transferred to Syracuse because she wanted to be in the communications program there. No animosity with her old house - they just didnt have a chapter at SU. So she rushed again as a sophomore and joined a completely different house, never deactivated her membership in her old one.

Still gets both newsletters. That doesn't mean that she did it with the blessing of either group. Originally posted by aopinthesky I do not doubt that this happens - how frequently is anyone's guess. The first group was not happy, and except for a few of her pledge sisters, they would not give her the time of day after this happened. The second group was aware of her former membership in the other.

This is the only such incident of which I am aware. People do this. I could probably get away with it on this campus except that the GA is my chapter sister.

I still maintain that I don't have an objective to you joining one if you transfer and yours isn't there. I don't like the idea of just joining willy-nilly at the same school, though. I don't know anything about membership in two npc organizations at once, but just because she's in the composite might not mean she's initiated, my chapter and thus, my new member class had our composite pictures taken b4 initiation, and any one of us could have deactivated and still been in the picture.

On the other hand, she did tell you and you knew her, and it's possible, so. I agree with GeekyPenguin. One of the chapters on my campus had a girl who had transferred in from another school where she had been in an NPC sorority there.

She came to my school and we didn't have that sorority, so she went through rush and joined XYZ on our campus. They all knew she was a member of ABC at the other school, but none of them cared. I guess they just didn't tell their nationals. I don't know. The only problem is what happens if that group colonizes on that campus one day while she's still there? Which group would she feel the most loyalty to?

I think it would be kind of neat to be initiated into 2 NPC groups I wonder how many similarities there really are in the meanings of the letters and the rituals, you know? Originally posted by dzjessdz I don't know anything about membership in two npc organizations at once, but just because she's in the composite might not mean she's initiated, my chapter and thus, my new member class had our composite pictures taken b4 initiation, and any one of us could have deactivated and still been in the picture.

This happened to us twice - once when my grand little sis depledged 4 days before initiation : and once the following composite year when a pledge had a family emergency and had to drop out of school entirely.

That's the risk you take when you have your composite made before initiation I guess. Originally posted by AXiD Which group would she feel the most loyalty to? I would ask that question whether or not the other group colonized on campus.

Which group is she going to be loyal to as an alumna? I'm guessing not the first one. Or maybe not either one since loyalty doesn't seem to mean much to her. In my opinion, in the cases sited in this thread, those groups and women should have been turned in, since they were obviously aware of the situation.

Or they need a seriously better educational program. I don't think there's any reason for someone to be a member of two NPC's. But yes, there's really no way to check.

You would think honesty would prevail There's really no way to control this from campus to campus, but there is really NO excuse for this to happen on the same campus! Where were the sisters of GLO 1? Why weren't they screaming their heads off? And GLO 2? Why would they trust someone who had so little regard for their previous pledge?

Then, where was the Greek Advisor? Do the words "Bid Card" mean anything on this campus? And the Panhellenic Council? There are just too many people who dropped the ball on this one! I know Alpha Phi has all of that information on me. I would assume that they report all that information to NPC and they have a database of all initiated women or even new members.

If NPC doesn't have that info or a database, that's crazy. I was going to say the same thing IF this girl was really initiated, the second group is just plain slimy for taking her. I guess they were more concerned about numbers than having decent people in their sorority. I know you can contact a GLO's headquarters and tell them the name and the school and the year of initiation and they will tell you if you are correct.

I did that just this past December when I wanted to find out if my great-grandmother and my great-aunt were Theta's at Tulane. And yes they were I found out. I am sure if there was a member in question and you knew which GLO you could email that headquarters and get an answer. Obviously, they cannot tell you addresses, phone numbers, DOB, etc because that is private information and since I work for Alumni Affairs at Ole Miss I know we would never give that out over the phone.

However, we can verfiy whether or not an alumni graduated from Ole Miss. I also know AOII is great about verifying alumnae for our chapter. We have tons of legacies who go through recruitment each year and since I've been Chapter Adviser we have them checked by headquarters.

You'd be surprised that some women do lie about their legacies, or their mothers were new member but never initiated. In a nut shell, I would think you could contact a GLO and ask them. I wouldn't email them new members names because that would be absurd, but maybe one name you needed to check. Originally posted by honeychile There's really no way to control this from campus to campus, but there is really NO excuse for this to happen on the same campus! I completely agree with this, Honey.

It just doesn't make sense. You'd think GLO 1 would be contacting their national office along with GLO 2's nationals about something like that happpening on their campus. It's one thing to pledge someone who depledged elsewhere. Maybe they weren't happy with their choice, but gave it a try and realized before initiation it wasn't right for whatever reason. But to initiate and then quit to join another sorority at the same school? It's unfortunate that people aren't always completely honest in these situations, and I agree, that it occurred at the same campus is unbelieveable.

You'd think someone would have stopped it. And I know it does happen, but I really feel strongly against a woman being a member of two NPC orgs.

Originally posted by AOIIalum But to initiate and then quit to join another sorority at the same school? I'd like to know how she had the nerve to show her face around Panhellenic. There are schools where I'm sure people don't care. We've often talked about how GCers are probably the top 10 percent when it comes to devotion to their organizations. I'm sure that there are many in the remaining 90 percent who just don't know the rules or don't bother to follow them.

They'd need a reason to suspect that this woman had been a part of an org. I agree with GP here I really don't see a problem with a woman rushing if she transfers, as long as she is willing to sever ties with the previous org. I mean in the panhellenic spirit I def. If this girl is trying to join another NPC on the same campus I really don't think it would work out for her Originally posted by 33girl maybe so Right, but assuming the original chapter knew, they could have reported it to the second chapter's HQ and they didn't.

It can be overwhelming adjusting to a new routine in a new place. Rather than targeting a specific sorority you want to join, try to be open minded throughout the process and stay focused on meeting women who will support and empower you, and vice versa. This will allow you to fully appreciate and enjoy the recruitment process while gaining potential sisters This can set you apart from others and makes you stand out.

Use your maturity to your advantage and strut your stuff! If you are seriously considering this, then listen up because this blog post is for you. In this blog post, we will be discussing the process of leaving your sorority and what happens after you drop your sorority. Purchasing a product or service through an affiliate will earn me a small commission at no additional cost to you.

Please read our Disclaimer Policy for more information about the use of affiliate links on this site. The process of leaving your sorority will vary chapter by chapter because each chapter has its own policies and procedures for terminating sorority membership.

In general though, the process will start with you writing and sending your Chapter President or Membership Vice President a formal letter of resignation stating why you are dropping your sorority. Meaning, no sorority resignation letter required.

Then you may have a one-on-one meeting with your Chapter President or Chapter Advisor where you will further discuss why you want to drop. At this meeting, your president will ask you to stay or try to negotiate something with you to make you stay. She will also ask you for feedback regarding what the sorority could do to improve on. You may also be asked to sign paperwork that officially terminates your membership. And finally, you will be expected to turn in your membership badge or pin, your sorority house key if you lived in the sorority house , and any membership card or certificate.

One requirement most, if not all, sororities have for dropping is that all sorority dues and fines must be paid before membership is officially terminated. If you are experiencing financial hardship, they may be able to offer you a payment plan or waive some of the money. The YouTube video below is a short, but great explanation by Zoe Calsyn on how to withdraw your sorority membership as a new member or an initiated Sister.