[Researcher]

Hello Fiyah98,

I'm sorry I had not responded sooner. I've been traveling throughout the northwest and southwest conducting interviews.

To answer you questions, yes, I am collecting data via face-to-face interviews and through questionnaires and surveys sent via e-mail to active Latina-based/oriented sororities and alumni. I have engaged in collecting oral or written questionnaire responses from about 100 active and alumni of LGLS. Not all national LGLS are engaging in interviews and when they do, only a chapter from this region or that region are interviewed. I will not say which sororities as I have promised to keep that secret.

Beginning in 1993 I began to engage in participation/observation and have been collecting homepage data since then, thus I have hundreds of pages from all the national LGLS I have been able to find since then. So far, I have researcher 32 national LGLS websites.

I am analyzing and reporting on all aspects of LGLS, including such things as the historical development of LGLS, cultural/organizational practices, verbal and nonverbal expression, and identity negotiation.

I and my co-author are asking all national LGLS to send us their shields/crests to print next to their organizational titles, if they so which them to be included. We are also requesting pictures of founding mothers, along with their names if they so desire to have them listed, and pictures of women engaging in strollling, stepping, saluting, and using handsigns; again names are optional.

The asterisk doesn't mean anything important; no need to worry yourself about that. If I can answer any more questions, please feel free to ask them. You can also e-mail me personally.

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