[john1082]

I have a different perspective on little sister programs - I know that isn't how this thread started out but some of us have some very strong feelings on the matter. let me get it out in the open: I'm glad they're gone.

At one time each fraternity had a more or less formal little sister program. Ours were known as Crescents or Crescent Girls. Originally a way to have some sorority girls around to help with rush and social events, the program morphed into something that was close to unmanageable.

The Crescent chairman had a budget to recruit Crescent Girls. Some houses gave this officer almost as much as (or in some cases at least as much as) the High delta received. The existing Crescent Girls sometimes wanted veto power over the incoming 'class' of Crescent Girls.

They sometimes had chapter supplied budgets for independent activities. This alone should raise all sorts of red flags from a risk management perspective. We had no way to monitor or control what they did.

Some Crescent Girls wanted veto power over active chapter associations, after all, "We're the cool girls who only hang with the cool guys . . ."

If a brother was dating a Crescent Girl and they broke up - LOOK OUT!

At this point you can readily see how divisive they could be and often times were.

Add to this mess the legal issues associated with a ladies auxiliary and our desire to remain the single sex organization and the need to really be a single sex organization to secure and MAINTAIN that status . . .

It all came together about the same time and that resolution was passed. Not all agreed with it, but having been an undergrad with a large Crescent Girl contingent and then watching the entity that existed at North Dakota and to a lesser extent at Texas Tech, I am glad that they're gone!