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Originally Posted by KillarneyRose
"If" these sisters were put on alumni status because they way they looked/acted didn't mesh with the direction National wanted it to go, why are people so shocked about that?
Two NPC chapters recolonized while I was at college and when the process was over every sister adhered perfectly to the idea of how their National thought a XXX or ABC should look and act. Both chapters, I recall, were an instant hit inside the chapter room and out. That is what I grew up believing recolonizing to be. Not a warm and fuzzy "oooooooooh, we wuv each other" weekend but rather a "You ladies are not holding up your end of the bargain and so we're going to come and find ladies who will." In the People article I read, one alumni sister was quoted that she wasn't willing to change anything about herself in order to stay in the sorority. So now, how can she bitch?
Seriously, what were after rush party meetings like in your chapters? You never mentioned an outgoing personality, a pretty face or a good body? Those things didn't matter to you? It was all about the philanthropy, right??? Um, yeah, that's how we did it too
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I think that (speculation) DZ didn't want to do a membership review initially, they were just going to close the whole chapter and start fresh when they recolonized. Then when the school told them they couldn't let the chapter lie dormant, they had to think of a way (quickly) to get rid of the sisters they didn't feel were beneficial for the chapter, yet keep the chapter on campus. To do this, they had to have some active sisters. It seems as though there was a lot of last minute changes and confusion.
There wouldn't be all this mess going on if they had closed the chapter period, or closed it and completely recolonized. That happens all the time and none of it has ever made the NY Times. It's the picking and choosing, plus the timing of the notifications to the girls given alum status, plus the different info coming from all corners (collegians, alums, housing corp and HQ) that has made this such an issue.