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Originally Posted by Ilaria Ame
ok. nice to know...for the record, i am a white girl on a predominately white campus in the deep south. i know the problems you refer to. i see them and deal with them every day in my job, where everyone hates eveyone else. in addition to that, greek life is completely split. seperate events all around. even greek week is only for NPC, NPHC isn't invited to participate. yeah. not kidding. all this is why me and my line sisters founded a chapter of a multicultural org this year. we are hoping to force a change in how greek life is run because we can't be categorized. of course, it could completely flop and we'll be hated by everyone instead of just half of everyone, but all we can do is present ourselves in the best way possible and hope for a miracle!
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Congrats! I see you are a neo. Anyway good luck with what you and your chapter are trying to accomplish, especially in the deep south. I commend you for stepping up and trying to do things differently. I have no problems with the multicultural orgs, heck if you saw some of our chapters and didn't know they were NPHC, you might think we were a multicultural org. Anyway, one of our mantras is "dare to be different." Since we are the youngest and smallest of the sororities in the NPHC (although not young...founded in 1922 or small...85,000 members since inception), we have had to shout to be heard and work to broaden people's minds so we dared to be different in the beginning and we're still doing it now. Just don't give up! It ain't so bad being the underdogs (or in our case under
poodles...get it?...our mascot is the poodle...sorry, I couldn't resist that one
). In fact, it's one of the best decisions I ever made.