[33girl]

The terminology changes are silly; I'm impartial (I had a small chapter & only pledged 6 weeks); and they suck.

I think all this trying to be politically correct has just made the NPC seem very weak and susceptible to any objections from outside, instead of the strong women that sorority members are told they will become when they join their GLO.

The name changes are a lot of "sound and fury, signifying nothing." The word was changed, but not necessarily the action behind it. For example, the change from rush to recruitment was supposed to convey that the process of bringing new women into the sorority does not just last for a week, but should continue all year, and take away some of the "stigma" of COB at big schools. Well, as you can see from the posts on here, that hasn't happened. Rushee to PNM - misleading, in my opinion, sounds like everyone will receive a bid. As far as pledge to new member, well, it is not what you say, it is how you say it and how you treat people. I really doubt that if there are groups out there who treated their "pledges" horribly, that they did an instant 180 when the terminology changed to "new member."

And what the heck is a bid card called now? Something ridiculous like "membership recruitment acceptance preference administration identification certificate."

I have weighed in on my feelings about the anti-hazing laws enough times that anyone who wants to know my views can search for them - I don't want to repeat myself. I will say that a lot of these laws and policies were not necessarily passed to improve the quality of sisterhood or the strength of individual chapters; they were meant to cover butts. Period.

I would be all for these changes if they solved some of the problems we have, but I haven't seen evidence that they've been anything other than cosmetic.