I know that my little sister's group is always using the money to rent out penthouse suits at the marriot to have sleep overs, rentin' stretch navigators to cruise around town in, and buyin' all sorts of 'nalia for step shows and parties. It is sad because for years I've been telling her to make the org. something positive for the members (like using the money to help the seniors in the org. with college app. fees and such), not just a clique of girls. I think there is great potential in an org. such as this, but what happens is that they spring up and attract so many aspirants (my little sis. is the pres. and she says that they have 71 girls at 5 different high schools in the city and they "cross" about 30 girls a year...and they do have above ground "pledging" so to speak, the girls walk around the school for a week wearing bunny ears and tails, it is like out of "school Daze" or something, just wild) and become this "frankenstein" type of entity. Without direction, the potential gets wasted. She has an "advisor" who is a teacher at the school who is an AKA, but they only listen to her when it comes to protecting them against being ripped off by step show promoters and putting together steps for the shows themselves( and I do not think the advisor wants to do much more than that anyway). So we have this quandery about these groups, at least they are not gangs per se, but I think that the image of college life in general and HBGLO's specifically is suffering because of these orgs. What do you guys think?
blackwatch!!!!!
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