I can just see it ... they close my chapter when I'm a sophomore. A couple of years later, they want to colonize. But I'm still peeved. So I say, "Fine, if they won't colonize until I leave, I just won't leave. I'll get dual degrees in engineering and music and biology. Let's just see how long THAT takes!" :D

a few of the younger sisters talked about it. they didn't want to have to disassociate with the sorority if they really did recolonize. but basically we just realized it would be helpful and respectful. we made the sacrafice of having a recognized chapter and would sacrafice more if it meant we'd have a chapter to come back to a few years from now when we were alumnae.

shelley j
sigma k

When nationals closed my chapter, our advisors said we could recolonize at ASU in two years. However, there's some rule that no one from the closed chapter can be an active member in the recolonized chapter. So that's SOL for our freshmen.

my grand lil technically deactivated before order so she couldn't reaffiliate anyways if we were to recolonize at miami. everything is cool between us though.

shelley j
sigma k

I hope that no more of our chapters have to close. Honestly, I miss it more and more each day, now that our ASU Theta O chapter has been closed. A bunch of us girls recently all went out to dinner, but you know- you still get really sentimental when other houses are talking about date parties and formals, and you wish that you were going to your own. Its a horrible thing to have happen to you, and an unbelievable torch to bear. It still angers me that Nationals did what they did to us, and that we couldn't recant their and our own actions.

i totally feel you on it. i literally hurt inside when i would see other sororities having fun, parties, going to ritual, etc. and when i did get together with my sisters, it was sad. cuz we all just looked around at each other and realized we would never go through a formal meeting or ritual together again. that all we had at that point was our friendships that for some weren't all that great. so i know what you mean by that.
as for nationals though, i can't fault them. at least now i can't. now i realize that it was going to happen anyways. they at least gave us the choice to stick it out one more semester or cut our losses and close when we did. and b/c so many girls were getting physically ill due to the stress of the chapter, we felt it best to close. someday my chapter will reopen. we were always a great group on that campus and npc at miami shouldn't have a problem with us coming back. here's to the future and forgetting the past (but stilll earning from it)

shelley j
sigma k