[ASUADPi]

I'll probably get ripped on for this, but I'm completely appalled by that article.

I was initiated at U of A and had I had the MONEY to stay down there I would have.

I emphasize money because his arrogance that because I'm greek I somehow come from money is completely incorrect. My parents would be considered middle class. I grew up middle class. I will admit that I did have sisters where mommy and daddy where paying for everything (let's face it everyone can say that they had a brother or sister where mommy and daddy paid for everything).

The most my parents did was pay $500 so I could stay in my dorm room. I paid for everything else.

When I joined my chapter, it did not consist of all white girls. We had white girls. We had non-white girls. We had skinny girls. We had heavy set girls. We had tall girls. We had short girls. Just trying to make the point that we weren't the "stereotypical sorority girls".

Now this is not to say that there aren't problems with U of A greek life, because there are. That's the most I'm going to say with that because my chapter just closed so my "opinions" regarding the problems won't be as levelheaded as most, mainly because of what comes from your chapter closing.

But what I do feel comfortable stating (and is purely my opinion) is that greek life needs to have a supportive President otherwise it can be very tough. I say this because ASU has about 800 (if not more) girls going through formal. President Coor (from my perception) seemed pretty supportive of greek life. I'm not quite sure about President Crow though. I say this because ASU greek life seems pretty strong and from what I could tell while is school had a pretty good reputation.

I left U of A May of 1998 and even though I got the feeling that greek life just wasn't supported. President Likins, I'm pretty sure (like only about 75% positive) has stated that he's not a big supporter of greek life. So if you've got the president of the school, not really supporting greek life, it's gotta be tough.

And it probably doesn't help when the school newspaper allows writers to completely diss greek life.