
This website is being used to collect ballot information for the Delta Omicron Provisional Chapter to be granted full chapter status by Psi Upsilon Fraternity. Voting will close at the end of business on Friday, January 31st (5 PM Eastern).
A copy of the petition has been distributed to all Alumni Association Presidents and Chapter Presidents reported to the International Office, with initial dispatch on December 2nd, 2024 and a follow-up on January 8th with this ballot link. This petition includes details about the Chapter, its governance, history, and information related to Purdue University. You can download it here:
Article IV of the Constitution provides for the establishment of chapters as follows:
Section 3. Approval from three-quarters of the active chapters shall be necessary for the establishment of a new chapter of this Fraternity. When the Executive Council believes that a provisional chapter has met the guidelines for establishing a new chapter, it shall instruct the chief executive officer to prepare a report and recommendation and mail same to each chapter’s active membership and to the governing body of the alumni association or corporation. Within twenty days of such mailing, each body shall transmit to the chief executive officer at the International Office of the Fraternity its approval or disapproval in writing. Approval of a chapter shall occur under any of the following conditions:
(a) Two-thirds of the active membership and two-thirds of the governing body of the alumni association or corporation vote in favor of the proposal; or
(b) Two-thirds of either body votes in favor of the proposal, and the other body does not respond within twenty days of the date of the mailing concerning the proposed establishment of the new chapter; or
(c) Neither body responds to the proposal within twenty days of the date of the mailing concerning the establishment of the new chapter.
Section 4. Upon the chief executive officer receiving approval from three-fourths of the active chapters for establishing a new chapter, it shall be the duty of the Executive Council to prepare an exact copy of the Constitution and an official certification of the vote of the chapters, and with these documents to proceed immediately in person, if possible, or, if not, to direct some chapter to appoint a committee to meet the pledges immediately and to initiate them into the new chapter with the usual ceremonies of initiation, by which they shall be invested with all the rights of a chapter.
The Ballot for voting is now closed. We will be sending out information on the results the first week of February.
