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I know this is stories of sisterhood, but I hope you ladies won't mind if I share a couple.
First I have a couple about other chapters on my campus, to show that greeks stick together regardless of letter.
During the NIU shootings, one of the people at my school lost his blood sister. His fraternity set up a table to help pay for the funeral arrangements. As if that wasn't enough, that table wasn't empty the entire time. People from every single org on campus took turns on that table to support our fellow greek.
Second our Alpha Sig chapter had the misfortune of loosing two undergrads in something like a month. They held a black light processional for him on the green of my campus. I couldn't go because of class, but I hear half of the Greeks at school were there in support.
Now a couple from my chapter. We have one brother who is pretty athletic but manages to hurt himself all the time somehow.He was playing basketball during greek week and hurt his ankle somehow. Me and a couple of other brothers ended up carrying him to our chapter house which was two blocks away.
Me and a few brothers were living together in a boarding house near campus. We had a fire one night which everybody ended up fine with. One of my brothers when he found out came running from the dorms with hoodies for all of us to wear (it was winter). Not only that, but I was getting calls from greeks asking what happened and all the houses were offering us a place to stay for a couple of days until we had everythign figured out.
And one that is very personal to me. Me and my grandfather were really close, he was the closest thing I had to a father. Last year he passed away in the night. We had just finished pinning our new pledges and were at a dinner celebrating when I got the call. The Brothers were so supportive it was great. I ended up going outside to sit on the steps. They took turns coming out and sitting with me, talking when needed , silent when not. I honestly don't know how I would have made it through the night without them. Also background, I live about 45 minutes from my school, but that's by train. Now I need to take two trains to get home, one that ones all night and one that stops at 1 to get to the first train. So I had planned on sleeping on the couch anyway after the ritual and diner. My mom called again and asked when I could get home so she could scheduled a flight. I told her when I got back to school from the diner I would see if i could get a ride to the train I needed. As soon as I said that one of the brothers volunteered to drive me. He ended up driving me all the way home after borrowing another brother's car.
And for two slightly more happy stories.
Me, one of my brothers and one of the pledges were on the train on our way to NYC to visit our columbia chapter. They had invited us for a formal invite dinner so we decided to go. I was wearing a jacket with letters on it. Some random guy comes up and asked if we are brothers of Psi Upsilon. I answered yes. Turned out he was one of the founders of my chapter. That was crazy.
Now I love visiting chapters and meeting brothers. One of my friends was driving down to RPI to go to a cookout. I managed to talk myself into the car and went down with her to visit the chapter. I had called the day before, but they apprently forgot. Anyway I show up more or less out of the blue and they welcomed me with open arms. Somehow I had showed up right in time for them to go out for lunch and they invited me along. The entire time I was there, they didn't let me pay for a thing.
Mind you these stories all took place in a period of about two years.
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