Mary Ritter Beard was a Theta from the Alpha chapter at Depauw and she was huge supporter of women's rights and suffrage.

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That is good. But you are talking about one person and I am talking about one of the premises from which a sorority was founded.

Great info!

Was women's suffrage also a national and local initiative for Theta?

Delta Founders marched in the 1913 Women's Suffrage March in D.C. (during a time where there were huge racial inequalities to compound the huge gender inequalities).

Ha.

Equal rights mean equal rights. If men can pick lint in the cafeteria but women can't, that's a problem. Well...you get the point. :D

<----Believes that every decent human being should be a feminist, however they express it

Hi, Elephant Walk. Yes...yes...we see you and you are somebody.

Why is it inaccurate to use Ms.? I thought that was perfectly acceptable for married and unmarried women alike. Am I mistaken?

In some old papers that I have, it says that the chapter became inactive in 1923. It may not be 100% accurate but it would explain what is in the AOII history book. I was just looking at it and it speaks of absorbing Lambda Tau (formed in 1920) and chartering as the first national sorority on October 25, 1924.

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I think you use "Ms." for all if you don't know their marital status. Her friends called her "Mary Love," (as if it was a double name) but formally, she was Mrs. Collins.

Plus, I thought oldu would be interested that Mr. Collins was somewhat of a mystery!

Generally speaking, women's GLOs were founded because women needed to support each other in being a minority among the student population. Think about it, the first women to attend college were no doubt feminists. It comes as no surprise to me that the first college to admit women was also the birthplace of the first women's GLO.

Yet not every sorority was actively involved in national and local equality initiatives.

On an organizational level, it isn't enough to just exist. It isn't even enough to just be able to boast that one of your chapters was able to get equal ironing and smoking rights on campus.

It's in really poor taste to not think enough of her and her accomplishment to call her Mrs. Collins.

Of course I could completely be attaching a different meaning to your point. Hint. Hint.

Hijack: Every time I see "Mary Love Collins" I read "Martha Layne Collins" who is a former governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and also a (University of Kentucky) Chi Omega.

What you hate are gender feminists. I'm guessing you have no problem w/ equity feminists.

You hate extremists.

Female and male Feminists want equality.

Eh...we aren't showcasing the accomplishments of the NPHC.

There were NPC, NPHC, and nonaffiliated women marching and working alongside one another throughout this country's history. Those who can't relate to fighting for causes larger than themselves at a national level (we aren't critiquing chapter stuff here) were just existing, as far as many of us are concerned. So a thread like this should have more in it than what happened at UofM in 1923. That's an okay starting point but what next? Certainly this isn't incredibly interesting to many people as it stands.

But let's pretend that you are not completely confused right now:
I find it interesting that you and your cyber pals run around GC ranking fraternities and dismissing what other chapters do because they aren't SEC (or whatever). I rarely see you celebrating what your fraternity as a collective has accomplished or even what your and other chapters have accomplished for the local communities and society. Do you see the hypocrisy here?

That much is obvious.