Understood (interestingly enough, I wasnt initiated at UTSA, just transferred there from another more traditional university). I might have been a bitharsh on AXOWHoa, I had a few drinkas in me... Seriously tho. Even at A&M, as is everywhere, the demographics are changing. Yeah at UTSA, or other metropolitan universities, we are the first to see that shift. It is happening natioonwide. As greeks we better be prepeared to adapt, or dissapear. There are enough factors threatining ourr existance without our help internally. At my ritual, I didnt take any oaths in respect to soemones age. Just to attract new members. If soemone doesnt fit, they dont fit, but I would hope that everyone would be given the same consideration and due process during recruitment. Dont wanna pass up a diamond in the rough.

When I was a pledge, we had a sister who was "older" at 23 or 24. Now at my age that makes me laugh! She was as good a sister as anyone else regardless of age. I agree with Lifesaver, demographics are changing and we will have to adjust in order to keep up.

I don't actually think that was the point of the ad
 

I think it's excellent that we all think that this is a message for going greek later in life.

Perhaps I'm just being cynical, but I think that this ad is thought to be successful b/c the mom is obviously not 18 and a size 2. Boston Market may have been going for a joke, or just to have it seem as though the mom hasn't been "caught on to yet" (would have to be a pretty young looking mom :))

Now I haven't seen the ad, so I may be completely off base but that's just my $.02

Talk about a Sweetheart of Sigma Chi! ;)

J/k!!

Wow you guys give me so much hope. Here I am thinking that 22 is too old to go back to my chapter, and you have brothers and sisters way older than that. It makes me think that there is hope after all!! :D

I dont think it matters how old you are when you rush. OK Im the youngest one in my sorority's chapter! Im only 17 and theres one other girl who's 17 also but shes older than me :( oh well I know Im the baby but its alright with me!!

Nichole

I thought I smelled a bit of whiskey on your breath or was that Shiner Bock (the choice drink for my birthday). Anyways, I agree also that being older has its benefits, I did not pledge until I was a junior. When your older you are somtimes wiser (not always though), I definitely had my sh** together. I am not sure how rush is at A&M now I bet aggie DZ could tell us and I would be intrested to know if the sororities are more open to accepting older students b/c when I was there they were not.

Over the entire 14 class history of my fraternity, only 15 members were initiated as first time freshmen. The rest have been older college students who decided to put off joining until later or transferred to CSUN and then decided to join LSP.

An AVERAGE of 1 per class was a freshman?! There were many classes that had NO freshmen, and the most recent Xi initation had 3, the first time we had 3 at the same time since our founding year!

Older people definitely contribute much to a greek organization -- heck we've even had a 40 year old join!

-MK

I don't believe that you can be married and an active memeber of Tri Delta, i think you have to go alum when you marry, but we do have some older girls. Our chaplin, there is a pc name i just lost it for a minute, is 25 and amazing, she has been here since her freshman year, but she had to take a few years off to work to pay for school. There have been other girls who pledged when they were 21 and didn't grad until 26, and they were all amazing, we haven't had any older ones though.