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Originally Posted by 33girl
Judas Priest, this thing has more lives than the Mary Kay thread. From what I was told from various sources, I stand by what I posted. As I said, if LUC was that anti-KBG, they would have pushed NPC affiliation long before this.
And I don't think "things change" is an excuse for leaving 50 years worth of alumnae completely in the dark. Freaking call them, post a notice concerning the possible change in the alum newspaper, put it on your website, use common courtesy. Maybe they would have understood and rallied and improved KBG overall by getting involved themselves...but oh well, guess we'll never know because "things change."
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Well, what you heard "from various sources" is probably a little less true than say, what's coming from me, oh I don't know BECAUSE I WAS THERE.
Have you ever set foot on LUC's campus? Have you spoken with our Panhel and asked them why they wanted KBG gone? Are you a member of KBG? Do you know ANYTHING about our alum policies? Do you ACTUALLY think there is an alum newspaper? Because there isn't. And for the record, we had an alumnae mailing list, and everyone on it received a letter. If someone didn't sign up, then excuse me for not having their address from 50 years ago. But like I said, one of our problems with KBG was lack of organization. We didn't have a national website to put up an announcement. We couldn't get everyone's addresses, because nobody from nationals would ever return our calls. Oh. And we DID post it on our website.
I hate that you act as if you know what's going on, because you are not a member of either organization, and have absolutely NO firsthand knowledge of the situation. We were only able to speak with one national officer, and I can guarantee you, it wasn't BootyKBG. Like I said, we had 10-11 different NPC organizations that were interested in colonizing our group. It appears to me that you and BootKBG are the only people really offended by this situation.
As I also pointed out before, it was not our choice to close down KBG. I said before, they tried to come in and have an informal recruitment, and were told by Panhel that they were not welcome on campus. This isn't because we blackballed KBG. Panhel's urging was one of the many reasons we decided to go NPC. I don't understand why everyone has such a problem believing this, because its definitely not the first time a school has told all local organizations that they had to go NPC. John Carroll? I understand KBG wasn't a local, but it wasn't NPC, and that is what Panhel and the University wanted. We didn't say, "KBG sucks. Make them go away". If Loyola opens for expansion in the fall and KBG has gotten organized and wants to colonize, I seriously doubt any of our girls would be bitter about it. I for one, would wish them luck.
The only reason I even brought this thread back up is that I hate how it makes Kappa and our school look. I think you need to respect that. And if you can't, maybe it will give you some solace to know that in one more year, every single formerly KBG member will have graduated, and none of the "disloyal asshats" will be around anymore. Because as I stated earlier, I seriously doubt any of the new members from the last 3 classes have an idea there ever was a KBG.
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Originally Posted by chitownxo
When the word started to get out to the alumnae that a change might be taking place, calls were made to the LUC Panhellenic Office. I know of at least two women who were told (none of which I'm related to, BTW) that no change was taking place. At best, whomever these ladies talked to was/were misinformed about the situation...at worst they were lied to.
These ladies should have come clean to their alumnae base and told them what was happening. They decided to hide this from their sisters, and I think that's shady.
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I can understand how you are angered by the situation, because you actually have a personal tie. I honestly don't know why Panhel would have told you that nothing was going on, unless it was before the Fall that we were open for expansion. We had to get panhel's approval and help to notify the NPC groups that we were looking to colonize, so they were well aware.
And we honestly did try to contact the alumnae. Yes, I admit, we didn't contact EVERY SINGLE MEMBER, but we had a list of alumnae who had signed up for newsletters. We put the information on our chapter website. I guess we could have tried harder, but what can I say? We were college students. We had a lot of stuff going on, with installing a new chapter, being members of several organizations, and studying of course. And I have to say, we were a lot less organized as a KBG chapter. This could have been helped by the addition of an adviser...
I truly am sorry that your mom was upset by our actions. This is something that we took into account when we made the choice to disaffiliate from KBG. We knew the risk, and we took it.