Best bet to get a bid into one of the cooler frats is to go to Sewell dressed up in a suit or some really nice clothes. Go around handing out gift cards and or coupons if you're stingy. Try and smile and say hi be friendly wear some sunglasses to look cool. After you have approached at minimum like 50 people take out a bullhorn and ask for attention while walking towards one of the bridges. I'd recommend taking a couple shots of liquor just to prove you know how to party, then jump into the water screaming as loudly as you can into the bullhorn.

Once you exit the water you'll be approached by tons of guys and maybe even some girls complimenting your stunt and the guys will offer you bids on the spot

Hope this hells

Sent you a dm explaining the different orgs and councils Texas state has in greek life

There are academic Greek organizations and there are social Greek organizations. Start researching from there.

Go watch Animal House

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP86b4FHX/

Honestly, those things you have are the least important parts of founding a sorority. Why do you want to create a whole new sorority?

You first need to make sure your school is open to expanding and adding a new chapter, after that you need to convince that your new, local sorority would be the best way to do that. And honestly, I am not sure why you would be able to convince them of that. It’s a huge liability to have a college student being the only person responsible for it. It’s also a very very long process that might last longer than you’ve been in school.

But let’s say you get the approval, you then need to be able to recruit a group of students to be part of the founding class of this sorority. And then you need to start operations and start to talk about long term sustainability.

You will also need to figure out bank accounts, how to create a business, signing up for insurance, and all of the boring parts of an organization that usually headquarters or alumni take care of.

It honestly is way harder than just starting a club or anything like that.

I say this as someone who was in a local sorority and is now FSL staff on a campus, the likelihood of this happening is slim to none. Your school has insurance that covers student clubs, and those insurance providers almost never cover fraternities and sororities. Which is why each national org has its own insurance as well as the insurance the governing council gets from NIC/NPC. It’s just a big ole liability that the school will not want to take on. Find a national org that resonates with you and try to start a chapter at your school.

I think it would be easier to start a social club rather than a sorority. Clubs are easy to start so look into it. Then you can work on recruiting people.

Imo you are better off finding a national sorority that you can colonize at your school if you want to start your own chapter. It’s a lot of work to even start your own organization. If you have lots of $ & time then go for it. Benefit of starting a colony through another national sorority is they have resources and the foundation to help support you starting up. Also people would more likely join a group that has history and a presence at other schools.

Another angle is you could first start a local club and make an unofficial hidden sorority through that. That way you could possibly siphon funds through your school if they give funding to school clubs.

Either way I will say nationally. There are not much local fraternity or sororities even around anymore for a good reason. It’s because of liability & insurance. Most local Greek orgs started out as exclusive clubs or simple organizations on campus. Through 60s-70s a lot of them were forced to join a national org since their school no longer wanted to support them financially and liability wise. Why mostly only small private schools really only have local organizations now.

Anyways good luck on w.e you decide !

The colors, motto, etc should come from all the founders, not just you.

If you just want it to be a local group with no ties to the campus Panhellenic, you probably only need two students and to apply through Student Activities.

If you want this group to also participate in Recruitment with the other sororities, you'll have to meet with the Fraternity Sorority Advisor in Greek Life / Dean of Students to see if there is enough interest for another sorority.

On my campus (long before I was there), a group had 50 women meeting every week to convince the Assistant Dean that there was enough interest.

It often takes years. You may not get to really be part of it.

Here's a good start:

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/showthread.php?t=93174

A lot goes into a sorority. They have rituals and traditions, meanings, badges, symphonies, songs, chants, values, etc. Every chapter of a single sorority will be a little different and have different vibes depending On the individuals at each university but I do not think it’s fair to say sororities base their member selection off looks. That is not true for whole sororities. Certain chapters at certain schools may be more selective than others in that way but it’s definitely not fair to generalize like that so just be careful what you say. It can come off very insulting even if not intended.

It also sounds like you want an academic organization with Greek letters. They are usually co-Ed and do not always identify as a fraternity. There is a difference between a social sorority or fraternity that is part of the Panhellenic or Inter-Fraternity Council community. I think you would be best off looking into science organizations that exist and starting a chapter or looking into starting an academic fraternity which is a different community to social sororities and fraternities. I do not think a Panhellenic sorority would be what you want from the sounds of it.

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So you’re starting a normal fraternity?

Are you thinking more online or in person?
I think it's always good to start the idea locally first if possible, then move it online, that would also give you ideas of what works and what doesn't.
Also, since there is a physical workout component, make sure you're aware of the different fasting periods

I think you're taking too rigid of an approach on this but I know you're still probably tweaking things.

For example, in your post on the Catholic subreddit you mention 2x rosaries a week. Well, now most Eastern Catholics can't join since most of us don't pray the rosary.

I also saw some of your physical fitness requirements. They're also too high. 

As another guy who organizes events, often organizing men's events, I want to both affirm you and speak a word of caution.

First, affirmation. Men today, we are desperately in need of community. There's no such thing as a fix-all solution to this, it's multi-faceted, and so bringing men together and challenging them is a very good thing which we need. The men I meet with, I tell them that there are two standards which you must meet to qualify as a man: you must be responsible for something, and you must suffer. There is more you could add to that, but those are the two basics. Any fraternal activity which includes these, they can draw in men.

Now, a word of caution. Don't try to grow too quickly. Been there, done that several times. I tried organizing a lot of things in the past, but you need to build up a local community that's invested in your ideas before you can reliably branch out further. I made a website, I have a community calendar listing public Catholic events in my region, I have a page for getting people involved in small groups, I run a men's group that meets regularly with a sister group for women which just started up, and this is after I've been doing things like this for about 5 years. My recommendation would be to go slow with the app and first build up a strong and consistent community around you. There's the Principle of the Second Man that I speak about, where it's good to have a leader, but you need a good follower (or two, or three) to follow you for community to work.

I’m just curious, would you deny membership to disabled men over the physical standards? Working out is great, but I would hope a non-military setting would find room for flexibility (especially given that you’re calling it Catholic).

You should consider joining an ascetic monastery.

We should start planning a meet up of everyone who wants to join. Maybe we do a pub get together and start the planning?

I would love this, I love world building and story telling, etc

Sounds like a proposition for a cult. 😂

Sure and we all promise once we have more power we help each other its like our own illuminati thing

Either of these sound good to me. I know it's going to be tough to coordinate schedules so should we start throwing out dates to see what works for everyone? I'm free any night during the week except Wednesday, and can be free weekend afternoons.

I think "The Ancient Order of the Exalted Racoon" is what it has to be for a Toronto based secret society. Alternatively...

The Ancient Order of the Exalted Trash Panda

had a guy similar in my pledge class. not that weird

Get this being a beer

Just don't be weird, you'll be fine

It’s not weird until you talk about it.

Nah, I think the omnipotence would be a big selling point for your eventual senior dean run

I found interesting that for instance in The coven of Grave Gnosis (if I recall correctly), they describe their coven structure having two components; the inner temple and the outer. And members may not be the same in both. Because the inner temple is where the most experienced members reside and collaborate with the objective of trying and developing techniques to then be shared with the rest of the coven, the outer temple.

There is no advantage. There are no secrets. There is no ethical method of founding a cult. The Kimgdom of Heaven is within you.

John Michael Greer’s Inside a Magical Lodge has some good tips.

Dion Fortune's The Training & Work Of An Initiate might help

You know that saying about "whichever way everyone else is going, go the other way?"

There are a million self-serious magical lodges where people get together once a month, do a 100+ year old ritual and pat themselves on the back for being superior to mundanes. There are a million neopagan covens that are a backyard church service with the names of the spiritual beings changed. If either of these is your plan, people already have plenty of options.

The groups that I have found rewarding have a few elements in common. Some of these may be given lip service in other groups but it's far less common to see them actually practiced.

• Participation is its own reward; whatever we're doing is engaging in its own right in the moment.
• It's safe. If you're open to Nazis and Jewish people, you're going to end up with only Nazis. Same for sexual predators and women, racists and ethnic minorities etc.
• Everyone brings something to the table. The initiation for Alan Moore's Moon and Serpent Theater, for example, was to create a work of art (generally performance) that the initiate felt was a suitable tribute to the spiritual patrons of the group.
• Members are invited to expand the offerings. You want a book club? Cool, set it up and we'll let everyone know.
• They had regular low key get togethers and no more than one or two big events per year. Your budget and planning go farther the fewer things you put them towards.
• The hierarchy is as minimal as possible and more about distributing responsibilities than layers of authority.
• They start small. Burning Man started out as five or six guys burning a wicker man on the beach.
• They're support networks outside of the ritual room. You can find a friend to talk to, a couch to crash on or a letter of recommendation for a job.

Get three or four friends together. Come up with a ritual that's meaningful to all of you. Make it as cool as you possibly can on paper, the kind of thing that college occultists will talk breathlessly about 100 years from now. Set a deadline for three or six months out to acquire all the materials, learn all of your lines, find a venue etc. Get together once per week to work on making it the best that you possibly can. At some point, you'll have to start making adjustments between your original concept and what's actually possible. Do whatever it takes to perform your work on the day of your deadline. You can improve for next year. If you can get through that, you've got the core to build on.