Delta Theta, a women’s social club, is unable to recharter this fall.

It has been almost a year since Delta Theta lost their charter when their sponsors resigned.  Although members of the club have been working since January to regain their charter, as of now there are not enough members to for them to become an active club again.

ACU professor of communications Kristina Davis, a former Delta Theta sponsor, says that she was not contacted to be a sponsor during the attempt to recharter. She was not surprised by this since it was her resignation that led to the club eventually losing its charter.

“Delta Theta is a great club that prides itself in being genuine and authentic, and in my experience they can come back stronger than ever,” Davis said. “That’s what I want most for them.”

Club members said they won’t stop trying to rejoin the other social clubs on campus.

“We fought for our place in Delta Theta so we will fight to stay,” said Brittany Ellis, a senior family studies major from Haslet. “I would not say it is any different than what any member of any other club would do.”

The remaining members of Delta Theta began the process of contacting new sponsors and attempting to renew their charter in January. Ellis said they had been moving  in a good direction all semester and thought they’d be able to return to campus in the fall in time for pledging.

Last spring, Delta Theta completed all the stipulations outlined in order for them to regain club status, including community service hours and drafting a new vision for the future of the club. However, it was then decided that the club needed to add two new advisors, because the advisors they had in place did not feel they had enough experience to advise the club without extra assistance. This new stipulation brought the total number of advisors needed up to six.

Ellis said a club must have 10 members to be recognized, and after the graduation of three members and the loss of another, Delta Theta was unable to recharter.

Ellis said the news that Delta Theta would be unable to return was “devastating” and they had all wanted the club to be able to recharter.

“I think the hardest thing for me to wrap my mind around is that this is such a great group of women and they are being punished for something that was out of our control,” Ellis said.