[RozRochelle]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

Our organizations aren't missing out when people's enthusiasm and willingness wane for whatever reasons. They either come back around when they are a willing and able undergraduate or graduate, or they don't.

I think that's a very uncaring attitude.

While it's a good thing that your sorority exists, your marketing technique should place more emphasis on the qualities of your organization and less on the perceived "inadequacies" of other organizations for the nontraditional student.

Where did I say that other orgs were inadequate? Where did I mention anything about a marketing technique? I didn't. But, I do have one and it's not the one you have tried to tell me it is. I also don't have to promote my sorority by downing the others. Every org isn't for everybody. Whoever my org is supposed to have, it will have. You have made some assumptions, and read some things - that are not there - into what I've written.

And your eagerness to accept women who WISH they could join an NPHC organization but just don't want to wait for alumnae chapter is interesting. This is why there are some organizations that will always play the background and they are content with that.

You're making assumptions again. My target audience is not women who wish they could join NPHC orgs but don't want to wait for alumnae chapter. However, if a woman who wanted to join a NPHC org, but didn't for whatever reason, expresses genuine interest in my org, she'll be accepted as long as she meets our membership criteria.

The whole point of what I originally posted is that I don't think they should HAVE to wait. There are many women out there who want to belong to a sorority who are open-minded and not enamored with the NPHC ones.

As far as playing the background goes, that's elitist BS. Theta Gamma Pi is what it is, and I've never tried to hype it up as being more than what it is. I saw a need, and I hope this org will help fill the need. End of story. If QGPi becomes a large national sorority, great. If it becomes a small national sorority, great. If it becomes a regional sorority, great. Recognition from other GLOs, while welcome, is not necessary.

As long as the sorority fulfills its mission to the best of its ability, it is a success.

I agree with you there. But is your organization the real thing? If not, these women aren't getting the real thing by not pursuing an NPHC sorority and they are settling for a knockoff that fits their schedule.

Again, you are making assumptions. My org's goal is not to try to dissuade women from pursuing NPHC membership. I have nothing against NPHC membership. QGPi is simply another available option for those who would like to pursue it. That "knockoff" comment and other rigid, elitist beliefs like it is one of the reasons why non-NPHC orgs are growing so rapidly. Keep it up, you're only helping us.

But they can always change their mind after they join your organization and join an NPC or NPHC sorority. There's always hope.

And vice-versa.