In all seriousness, it seems like you have very different values than 99% of us on this forum have. You want the stereotypical "greek" experience- you know, the kind you see in movies. Drink, drink, drink, frat party, haze, drink, haze a bit more, drink, jell-o wrestlingparty, whatever. Since your school is lacking in the number and choices of sororities, maybe, oh, I don't know, PNMs are looking for ACTUAL SISTERHOOD?

It's great that you want to rush girls that have the same interests. BUT, in previous posts, you want girls that can party and like to drink. Is that the only similarity? Because if so, then you will not have a group of girls that would get along. Hell, I can go to a bar and run into 10 other girls that like to drink like I do. But 10 bucks says that I wouldn't necessarily get along with any of them.

If you really want to succeed, then you have a fight ahead of you. But basically, you need to focus on the actual sisterhood. Otherwise, you will lose your members, will cease to exist, and in all honesty, I can't say that the resulting situation would really be a bad thing for your community.


Edit: One more thing- if I was a member of your sorority and signed on to this chat, and then read all of the things that you have posted... well, I'd be horribly embarrassed, I'd be kinda pissed, and I'd think twice about staying in this "sorority". I sure as hell wouldn't tell anyone about my affiliation with it.

I think you are awesome right now. :D

And can I just point out that our chapter at her school is our oldest continually active chapter, Delta Chapter, chartered in 1901. That makes it about 64 years older than her sorority, and yet we don't have "the same type of tradition and ritual that [her] sorority does." I think I'll take our tradition over hers any day.

MysticCat, I have always thought you were awesome :D .

I want to let you know that your organization has many great members (especially from the Penn State Chapter-sorry, I'm biased). One of the brothers, Milton Newberry, wore "PINK" in honor of a chapter sister that just passed away from a heart condition. He knew exactly what it meant to have Greek pride and honor those we have loved and loss (a little bit of our Phi Mu creed there, for ya'). The fact that a man would go out of his way and honor our sister like that said a lot to me. He will always be my favorite Phi Mu Alpha.

Also, I agree with what you said about those traditions. Once again, SAI and Phi Mu Alpha (as well as all the NPHCs, NPCs, and NICs-if I left anyone out-I'm sorry) are great organizations. To even attempt to compare a "club with letters" that does nothing more than drink and judge people to the fine GLOs she already has on her campus-well, it is a JOKE.

Good Luck with your "CLUB" GammaDelt.

^^^^ I just love Phi Mus -- the first one I ever knew was my own older sister. :D

And thanks for passing that along about my brother at Penn State.

And GammaDelt, I have a feeling the fact that your sorority is still around and promoting negative behaviors is part of the reason that the school is hesitant to allow pure social organization again.

I just checked out the Gamma Delta Pi website...

Here is their sister's section of their page:
http://gammadeltapi.com/sisters.html

Here is their actual site:
http://gammadeltapi.com/

I figured since we were talking about the organization in this thread, it would be helpful to get an idea of them by checking out their site. Also, I noticed in the Social Activities section of pictures, the girls are drinking in (what looks to be) a fraternity house. I wonder if the fraternity house they are drinking in happens to be one of the fraternities the President chose to put down. Hmmmmm....I wonder????

My favorite part is under "Pledging":
"The Pledge Program will consist of traditional events, retreats and activities designed to assist new members in learning about the Sorority and its members.However, Gamma Delta Pi abides by a strict “No Hazing” policy. In addition to being dangerous and emotionally distressing, the members of Gamma Delta Pi strive to create a loving and nurturing environment to make each new member feel comfortable and safe."

Previous posts vs. website info........ Just sayin.

My favorite part is the Purpose.

“The purpose of the Sorority shall be the betterment of the Community, our College and Ourselves, the cooperation with the administrative officials and faculties of the College in advancing scholarly interests and promoting higher standards of social conduct, and the cooperation with other collegiate groups in solving mutual problems and in building higher standards of womanhood. “

Haha, nice one catching that.

GDPi Purpose = EPIC FAIL

Though I do think a large part of the problem they are having has to do with the way they present themselves. There are pictures on the PUBLIC website showing them obviously drinking together as a group.

OK, the last few posts just aren't cool. Making fun of/criticizing a whole group because one person can't keep her mouth shut is not nice. I've seen NPC sororities with far worse pictures on their pages. Stop it, kids.

33Mom

lol damn. i just came to add my fave part too. :p

For the record, I took more of an issue with the "cooperation with administrative officials and faculties of the College" than the drinking, etc. I know that no one lives up to every value of their organization, but when you're blatantly and organizationally ignoring it, that's a problem. And since they have the ability to change their purpose, if they've decided they don't share those views anymore, I don't really have much sympathy.

As for the pictures, the few that I looked at were not that bad, and I have seen far worse from NPC groups. In the NPC case its actually worse because there are usually rules prohibiting it - this is a local organization and they can do what they want with pictures of themselves. I think there's been a large anti-local slant to this thread, which is unfair - they are not all like this.

^^^ Cosign. The reason I brought up the pictures wasn't to make fun of them though. GammDelt said that she is for the idea of going dry, but the sisters won't support. But if you have pictures showing the sorority as a group drinking, of course all you are going to attract are girls who feel strongly about drinking.