“The point of the three-year process is so we can provide you with all of the resources you need, your alumni can help you prepare and you can come and be contributing members right away,” Rose said. If an invitation is extended, there is a three-year period before the organization can come to campus, Rose said. Organizations are not allowed to bring interest groups, defined as any organized group of prospective members, to the expansion committee. Then the expansion committee votes on whether or not it wants to extend an invitation to come to campus. If an organization hits a certain metric, it is permitted an interview.įirst, representatives meet with the expansion committee and do a presentation for all the different Greek councils and anyone who wants to listen. In order to become an officially recognized Greek organization on SU’s campus, the president of each of the Greek councils sits on the expansion committee and grades the prospective organizations with a rubric. Rose added that since Kappa Sigma isn’t a recognized fraternity, the organization doesn’t follow the rules that the IFC chapters have established, specifically in terms of security. “All of our organizations are monitored and advised by the FASA office, so when you have an organization that is unrecognized, we aren’t able to provide the help and the assistance and that puts students at risk,” Newman said. Safety is one of the biggest concerns with the presence of Kappa Sigma, said Panhellenic Council President Ashlee Newman. “They’re trying to participate as if they’re a recognized group and that’s concerning because people don’t know that they can’t interact with them,” he said. Rose said the IFC has informed all of the presidents of Greek organizations that they cannot associate with Kappa Sigma or they too will face judicial consequences. Individual students who are determined to be in violation of this policy may be placed on a disciplinary status up to and including suspension or expulsion, according to the website. It closed down twice since then due to low recruitment.Īccording to the FASA website, unrecognized organizations that attempt to facilitate member recruitment or member activities may be prohibited from participating in any future expansion process at SU. SU’s chapter Kappa Sigma was founded in 1906 and was active up to the mid-1970s. Kappa Sigma is one of three unofficial Greek life organizations at SU, along with Zeta Psi Fraternity and Theta Delta Chi Fraternity, according to the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs website. But some recruiting is done through word of mouth and prospective members coming up to them, he said. 5–10.Įddie Banks-Crosson, director of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs, referred all questions to Rose.īryan Samimi, vice president of Kappa Sigma and a junior accounting major said the group is not actively recruiting people on campus because members know it’s against the rules. Formal recruitment is set to take place from Oct. Matt Rose, president of the IFC and a senior public relations and sport management dual major, said that the presence of Kappa Sigma will have no influence on fall fraternity rush. The council also says Kappa Sigma broke several rules when it applied for official recognition last April. “We have a good group of guys who have a cumulative GPA of 3.22 and I don’t see how we’ve done anything wrong.”īy pretending to be an official fraternity, the SU Interfraternity Council says Kappa Sigma is endangering recognized fraternities and sororities, which face judicial consequences if the organizations associate with Kappa Sigma. “Going into this, I think we all understood that there was some chance we could get in trouble, but in my mind there isn’t really,” said Peter Decarlo, a senior accounting major and president of Kappa Sigma.
This has not stopped the “re-founding fathers” of the fraternity, who are still actively acting as a fraternity and wish to re-establish Kappa Sigma on campus, despite the risk of jeopardizing their academic standing. This past April, Kappa Sigma, a national fraternity that hasn’t been present at Syracuse University for around 20 years, applied, but was not given an invitation to become officially recognized. After being denied official recognition last spring, an unofficial fraternity isn’t taking no for an answer.
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