| KSUViolet06 |
10-22-2008 12:51 AM |
I only know of a couple of isolated situations in undergrad where people got flack for being greek. Most orgs were pretty receptive of greek members because they knew that greeks were known for being the involved, leader types.
I had a friend who was an honors/academic fraternity member freshman year. Well, the next year, she decided she wanted to be in a sorority as well. She went through recruitment and got a bid from my chapter. She still stayed active in the fraternity though and was even chair of a couple of committees.
Later on in the fall semester, it was time for the fraternity to give out little brothers, and she was really excited about it. She ended up not getting one and was really upset. She told me she didn't get one, and I suggested that she email the member in charge of it and ask why. She showed me the email response from the officer in charge and it said "We generally don't give little brothers to sorority members because they don't have the time for one." I was surprised by that response, because I was part of a service org myself and was allowed to take a little sister.
She called her fraternity big bro about it, and he told her something like "well, really, we can't tell members not to go greek, but we kind of discourage it." She was pretty upset that a fraternity she'd been in for a year and a half had such sentiments about greek life. So she got fed up and quit soon after.
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