[SWTXBelle]

Thank you, pbear. You stated what I wanted to better than I did! For what it's worth, my mother was in a local in college, and in fact I was named for her Theta Psi Delta sister.

As an aside - it seems like everyone and their dog lately has been being "offended". How about we all try and be a little more forgiving, and assume that most people aren't trying to offend, and that it might be a simple matter of miscommunication or misinterpretation?

eta - I think one of the problems when discussing locals is that, by their very nature, they are all very different and so it is hard to make general statements about them. I would imagine they would be very reflective of their campus, and thus more individualistic.