is aoii colonizing next year?

Almost -- but just fyi, interest group is the term used when a group of people are interested in starting a new sorority and going national. If they first formed a local sorority (only present here not anywhere else, with different letters than any NPC group), and they are interested in going national, the national will absorb the local.

Given the details above, Phi Mu or AOPi should be given first consideration to expand. They may or may not want to. If either expresses interest, they can present on campus, along with other NPC groups wanting to expand and then interview and select women to be charter members. If a group of women has already colonized itself they can choose to become Phi Mu or AOPi or petition any other available group. Say they don't want either; the group can choose to could contact Alpha Sigma Alpha or Delta Phi Epsilon or Alpha Sigma Tau or somebody else and see if those two groups want to expand.

There are variables and there has to be mutual interest. Both above scenarios could happen simultaneously at UVA since there are hundreds of girls who want a sorority home.

I think you are talking about an existing interest group of women who have already organized themselves and are looking for national affiliation. That is not what is occurring here.

When a ISC votes to expand, all the NPC sororities without an active chapter may submit a packet expressing their interest in establishing a colony. The campus ISC chooses from the packets and invites several organizations to participate. They are under no obligation to choose a chapter just because a previous chapter existed on campus, though they can certainly take that into consideration. Phi Sigma Sigma, or the other two, would only interview potential members if formally invited to establish a chapter by ISC. It is possible that ISC will not pick one of the NPCs, or one will be chosen, or more than one will be chosen in a "stacked" expansion - where one comes on campus during a certain year and then another is invited to comes later.

Yes, I was trying to show how it all works in general and there are many details and scenarios. The "consideration" could be given (or maybe already has been) to Phi Mu or AOP with the invitation to present so it'll interesting to see if any or both of these groups do expand or if completely different sororities colonize here. I think at least TWO MORE GROUPS could easily establish and be successful!

Please just add some new options. C'mon ISC - you can do it.

For real. And they wonder why they're bottom.

^ someone had to say it

It a change election cycle. Kick the bums out. In this case, it's ISC.

Why?

Not known for being very popular at any schools. Not that national rep means everything, as someone else explained earlier. New=bottom until you prove yourself

That's just pathetic....I can tell you're not in a sorority because those of us who are have no problems with tri sig. They're sweet and new and want to prove themselves, give em time. Even if your hopeless attempt at creating a new chapter works, it'll start out at the bottom just like tri sig

SSS is basically blocking other groups.

The better panhel interest would be allowing Tri Sigs to grow a few more years. It is entirely possible they came back too fast, and due to recalled rep will fail again. Think they only returned so fast because their Mother Chapter is in VA at Longwood.