not to change the subject, i just wanted to throw in my 2 cents....just wanted to let everyone know that people who are deaf dont mind the term deaf and would prefer it over the term hearing impaired. in the deaf community, "hearing impaired" is often taken as an insult because it is implaying that you NEED hearing to function and yours doesnt work, and because it doesnt work, you are lacking something, when in fact the only thing deaf people cant do is hear, so anyways, dont be scared to use the term deaf because its not considered derogatory :cool:


just my 2 cents from being fluent in sign language and having to take many deaf culture classes :D

If that is your primary goal, why wouldn't you call it that? And there are black, multicultural, latino GLOs.... are they not welcome to join any GLOs? I dont think i understood the post, and that's what i got from it:confused:

The Delta Lambda Phis here at Kent State have a deaf member. He and the rest of his brothers are really cool. When he pledged, they did their best to try to learn sign language.

we are focusing on the deaf culture/history/community/language but we only have 12 deaf students and 4 are females. But we have an ASL program and recently establshed a deaf studies minor. we have 33 ASL classes all of them FULL and people wanting to add. hearing people tell me they want ot know more about deaf culture and be involved but they are often shunned by the Deaf community, this way there is NO language or communication barriors and we have the same goals. It should not be deaf only/hearing only...... it is true that deaf people can apply for other greeks but they are not comfortable and it depends if the other pledges and bro/sis are willingly to learn sign and learn about them. One girl i know dropped cuz she said they blindfold her and they go out iin the dark, lip reading is very very important and with that gone, she might as well be Helen Keller. Csun has a deaf/hearing sorority also called Alpha Sigma Theta, there is one in RIT (rochestor) and in Gallaudet University.

Phi Mu welcomes all quality women into its chapters... though I'm pretty sure we don't have an exculsively deaf chapter. We do, however, have plenty of deaf sisters!

Cardinal026, I love the quote in your signature, where'd you find it?!

JaimeNicole, thanks for the heads-up. :)

BabyP, I welcome you to Greekchat. It's nice to have another Sac State Greek on this board cuz I don't think there are too many.
Good luck with your new local. It sounds like a great organization.

Oh Ok...that totally makes sense. I guess I just needed more information about your org. I wasn't trying to be rude or anything, I understand now. That's totally cool, my roomates father is deaf and learning sign language and other aspects of deaf culture interest me!

We have a chapter at a University for the deaf (they always sit in front at national gatherings and have an interpreter). I know we have a rule for ritual that deaf members cannot be blindfolded for any reason.

That's a great policy and sounds like it would make potential Deaf members feel a lot more comfortable!

one of mymany roommates in college was deaf and belonged to Kappa Delta. Here best friend growing up was miss america heather whitestone.

When i initially began this search for alumnae initiation i looked at a possible affliation with Delta zeta because the national philantrophy was connected to galludet University. Plus , i have a connection with eastern star and DZ ( history) too. That is besides the point, being as i posted in another thread i have some hearing loss and that is what really attracted me to that side of DZ because of the hearing impared awareness they had.

I believe that AlphaPhiBubbles was making reference to the original subject of the thread, which is deaf GLO members. I don't think she was excluding other groups of people or trying to say that they were not welcome in certain GLO's.

I was just wondering, what difference a sound impaired person has from a sight impaired person or a Black, Asian, Latino, or any other thing have to do with a person being in a Greek Organization?

Oh, is this I dont like you because you are not exactly like me.? :(

I think that My Brothers who are Afro-American or India-American, or Spanish, would not understand this. How about the Asians or Latinos who are in National Greek Organizatins, (Supposedly All White or Christian) , would they understand this?:confused: I am older than you is that bad?

I hope, that We All look at a person for who they are, Not what they may seem to be!:)

Tom,


I don't think that this thread was started as a way to create drama. The question that was asked was if any GLO's had any exclusively deaf chapters at any schools. There are alot of men and women out there that do not join GLO's, because they are deaf and don't think that they will belong or be welcomed because of the stereotyping that has been done against GLO's. So by different GLO's having deaf chapters or deaf members and talking about it, they are showing other organizations that we are not exclusive in our membership. My chapter doesn't have any members that are deaf just because of the population in general at my school is not very big (only about 12,000),but we do have non-traditional students that are sisters. I am very happy that DZ has a chapter at Galludet University. DZ could have just taken them on as their philanthropy and not allowed a chapter at the university, but by having a chapter there, DZ is helping to change the stereotype of all GLO's

There is no drama starting here on my end!:)

I just get upset when some one says well they are different!:eek:

I think we are all a little different, am I correct? No matter who We Are?:confused:

And your problem is?:confused: ;)

well people tend to feel comfortable around people that are similar to them. There are african american, mexican, asian,etc greeks (multicultural focused). that is what we are. there is no issue with the phone, blindfolding, lack of communication and understanding. And unfortunately there are greeks that only accept the ideal and the one that fits in their perfect image..... you know what i am talking about...I am glad to hear that more and more deaf are involved in the greek system!