[ladygreek]

Originally Posted by oldu

Sorry, I did not mean to infer that some local sororities are different than their national counterparts. The "functioning like" was in the plural to describe all three kinds of groups. However, I have found that there were campuses where groups were called sororities but their memberships were assigned instead of selected--a big difference. I guess I need an editor to clean up some of my phrases!

yeah you imply, the reader infers.