Date: 5/10/2005 3:550 PM
Author:jellybean
Totally off topic, but I was just wondering how many of you belonged to a sorority when you were in college?
I know obviously AChioAlumna was in one!Was anyone else?
I was in Kappa Alpha Theta (''thetas'')
Date: 5/10/2005 662 PM
Author: FireGoddess
Never thought I''d see myself writing or talking about that again!!!
My chapter was shut down (lower membership numbers than the headquarters wanted) halfway through my senior year of college and it was just a completely devastating experience at the time...no support, flailing in the wind kinda thing...not being told anything was wrong and then happened all of a sudden. It was very upsetting and left most of us very, very bitter. So for me, those girls I lived with for 3 years are some of my best friends...but my love for them equals my animosity towards the organization. They won't ever get a dime from me. I am thankful however, for having met and becoming lifelong friends with many sisters.Date: 5/10/2005 6:22:58 PM
Author: AChiOAlumna
Date: 5/10/2005 662 PM
Author: FireGoddess
Never thought I'd see myself writing or talking about that again!!!
FG...Why do you say that??
That brings up a great secondary question...in addition to jb's question? How many are still involved with their sorority in some way or another? The reason I ask is that I am an advisor and a president of our alumnae chapter...there is so much a need for alums to volunteer, but yet, not enough do...if you do or do not volunteer, what lead you to that decision?
Not the same experience but similar feelings, LOL! Our house "changed" by my Junior year as new girls came in and we had an advisor switch...she ruined it for those of us that were not straight-A, goody two-shoes but still had our $#!t together if you know what I mean. All of my close sisters (9 of us in all) either dropped out of school (2), graduated (3), or left the house by our Senior year (4-who all went on to graduate)...Oh, and I was an AXO too...My chapter was shut down (lower membership numbers than the headquarters wanted) halfway through my senior year of college and it was just a completely devastating experience at the time...no support, flailing in the wind kinda thing...not being told anything was wrong and then happened all of a sudden. It was very upsetting and left most of us very, very bitter. So for me, those girls I lived with for 3 years are some of my best friends...but my love for them equals my animosity towards the organization. They won''t ever get a dime from me. I am thankful however, for having met and becoming lifelong friends with many sisters.
I definitely found (by going to the regional convention or whatever you call it - can''t remember) that chapters from other schools could be very, very different!! It''s too bad you didn''t mesh with the girls at your new school, it would definitely have been a way to easily transition to a new place. But chapters can be very different from one another!Date: 5/10/2005 10:142 PM
Author: clammer
Hey FireGoddess, I was also a DZ.
I transferred schools, and although they also had a DZ chapter, I didn''t click with the girls so I didn''t get involved.
Hah! Me too - at a different fraternity.Date: 5/11/2005 9:224 AM
Author: Catmom
Hi Jellybean,
Does being a 'little sister' to a fraternity count? I was a 'Sister of the Skull' - Phi Kappa Sigma. Man, that was a loooong time ago!