[Little32]

Read it, and mostly agree with everyone here. Her experience is her experience. She went into for the wrong reasons and it seems as though she was already prepared to dislike it before she even crossed.

I was talking with a soror the other day. She was telling me about her experience, how she pledged because they wanted her too, not because she wanted to. Her story was similar. After college, she went inactive because, to use her words, "I was a total snob about it."

Years later, she reactivated and said that she now understands the influence and positive impact that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. makes because of the women who are in our organization.

Every organization has these members, women or men who join for the wrong reasons or don't "have it in their heart" so to speak. However, the difference between this woman and my soror is that my soror came to realize her own culpability in her disillusionment and that she had been wrong in her initial assessment of the value of our organization and its work. I don't guess the author of this article has reached that level of maturity yet.

I say all of this to say that her taking her singular experience and extrapolating from it claims about the whole is, well, dumb. I am sorry that she was hazed too. The end.