The InterFraternity and Panhellenic Councils have passed a new policy for Homecoming, but the policy will not start until Homecoming 1991.

IFC President Rob Martin said the fraternities and sororities will continue to use the single-partner system for fall Homecoming 1990 activities. But a new rotating partner policy will begin in 1991.

omecoming will be divided into competitive and noncompetitive events and different fraternities and sororities will participate in different events together, he said.

The sporting events for Homecoming will have three separate divisions. There will be men and women only divisions, where one team per chapter will be allowed to participate, Martin said.

The third division will be coed. Each sporting event will be played by a combination of different fraternities and sororities, he said.

The nonsporting events also will be participated in by a combination of different fraternities and sororities.

In both the sporting and nonsporting events, a group of fraternities will not be able to participate because of the larger number of fraternities than sororities.

Martin said the new policy will be held over for Homecoming 1991 because of “time constraints and because we’ve already started the process for Homecoming.”

Martin said “everyone felt we should keep it (the current policy) because the process was already started” for Homecoming 1990.

PHC President Karen Wilkinson said the council voted to wait to put the policy into effect until 1991 because “we already had partners established.”

Greek Adviser Mary Ronan said the new policy is “an effort to try to increase participation. The 1991 proposal will involve a lot more organizations than the current system does. No group will be excluded because they don’t have a partner.”