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Originally Posted by GeekyPenguin
I have told this story on here before. She pledged Chi O. She was initiated into Chi O. A traveling consultant from Chi O then came and said "WHAT? We can't have black sisters!" and she quit rather than make her chapter kick her out. This was in the early 1970s at a liberal arts college in Wisconsin.
You must have attended college later than my mother and her friends, who were in school in the early 70s as well.
That statement wasn't random. You assert that sororities are exactly the same as they used to be except recruitment. I am showing you an example of how that isn't true.
And to get back off the "let's derail anything GeekyPenguin posts because I think she has a hidden agenda about me for some reason" train, I think what happened to this women is really unfortunate. Many women look to sororities to provide a strong, empowering female experience and that clearly isn't what she got.
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I didn't mean that your statement was random-- I meant that cuteASAbug's was, I don't want to derail your posts, and I attended college in the early seventies. (In the Deep South.) I also hate derailing threads. However, it's important to me and to the other older women who post here that the Greek system of that time be defended.
And many sororities pledged people back in the day who were non-white or partially non-white. *Like me.* The people who recommended us and the ones who pledged us knew it and certainly several national consultants who dropped by could tell.