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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
Y'all are so funny! I don't think you have to know the entire greek alphabet to be a good greek member! We all could easily read the names of other organizations on campus even though the alphabet was not included in our new member education manual. Most greek letters used in GLOs are recognizable to educated people. Do I think that NMs should wait an extra week for initiation so they can learn the greek alphabet? No...I think that's absurd! Does it have anything to do with sisterhood? Absolutely not! Can you give me any other reason that new members should learn the greek alphabet? Is there some test of greekness that involves reciting the alphabet by heart? I guess I just have a different opinion as to the purpose of new member education.
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Not to harp on the greek alphabet thing, but WHAT?? Are you SERIOUS??
Among the points of new member education is (or should be if it's not) that no one lives in a vacuum. There are more chapters on campus than yours; there are more greek organizations in the world than yours; there are more chapters of the organizations that are on your campus in the world. it would behoove you, if you plan to set foot off that campus OR if that campus decided to expand, to be able to identify organization and chapter nomenclature.
You know you whole regular alphabet even though the names of most of the people you know and most of the words you use don't have all the letters, right? Same thing. I'm pretty sure you used a week as an example, but if it really takes a week to teach "educated people" the entire greek alphabet, there's either something wrong. Thetagirl218 pointed out half of them are already known from math and science. It should only take a day to learn them. Make up a song or borrow a song from another chapter. As tld221 said, it's embarrassing to be greek and not know the greek alphabet. If you're ok with that sort of thing..........