OK I hope I remember everything in this thread...
Rudey, my fellow Rolling Rock lover...thank you for reminding me that I should not bother trying to be politically correct. It just doesn't come out of me right! So I'll be blunt: I am not by any means saying that discrimination against Jews doesn't exist and that it can't be very lonely to feel you are "different." However, you cannot look at Alison Davis and say that she is Jewish, as opposed to Asians or African-Americans. She's not going to pulled over by some a-hole cop for "driving while Jewish." I feel it was wrong of her to say that she is as much of a minority as the A-A woman was, because it is just not the same.
As I veer off topic (and who really cares if I do
) prettypoodle6 said:
i think a lot of us (nphc'ers) have been under the impression that NIC and NPC orgs were collegiate organizations only - cause that's what we've been told/seen by actions.
I also was told that upon graduations members had to return their pins and almost everyone that i know that has graduated dont associate with there organization (my coworker who joined a fraternity gets on me all the time - calling me obsessive - cause i'm very involved with my sorority. he even asked me when i was going to grow out of it!)
just want to thanks folks for clearing up the fact the NIC and NPC organizations were for life....
I think a lot of this has to do with what Kelli said in her post, that grad chapters of NPHC orgs work the same as undergrad chapters. In NPC and NIC there are many different ways to be "active." For example, there is a woman from my chapter who has given thousands of dollars to the national organization but has never come to any of our chapter's alumnae events. On the other side of the coin, there are women who have given tons of time to their local chapter but have never made a donation to the national org. Then there are those who are somewhere in between. (sweeping genralization ahead) I believe that it stems from the different ways the groups choose their members...in NPHC you choose the national organization, and NPC you choose the members of the local chapter. I think NPHC members have a much better grasp of the sorority/fraternity as a national whole.
Re Alison Davis again, if she was that involved in her religion and the Jewish community, isn't there a way that she could have found out through those connections which organizations had a strong Christian base?