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Old 11-05-2007, 08:12 PM
jwsteele jwsteele is offline
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How is deactivating viewed on your campus?

I had an interesting conversation about a week ago with a friend who goes to a different school. At my school, deactivating is fairly common in sororities...a couple pledges usually deactivate before initiation, and then others will slowly drop out over time. It is considered not a big deal at all and our Greek system is very big and influential on campus. At her school, where the Greek system is fairly sized (about 80-100 per sorority) but really not "important" at all, she described deactivating as a slap in the face and said that it is extremely rare and there is usually a lot of fall out. This just seemed really interesting to me because I assumed deactivating from sororities was "no big deal" and relatively common everywhere.

How about your school (not just your specific chapter)? Was deactivation common or non-existent? How was it viewed by the chapter?
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