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Originally Posted by Shellfish
Not exactly the same, but...I was poking around the Web sites of the sororities at my alma mater recently, and I noticed that one chapter claims to be the only one to have survived the Vietnam era. (We lost a lot of chapters in the '60s and early '70s.) Thing is, I can't imagine where they got this idea, because although one chapter has been on campus continuously, it ain't them. In fact, two other sororities also survived that time but subsequently closed, but their chapter was one that left but returned in the late '70s. Weird. I wish I could point this out, but it might seem odd for some random stranger to contact them about it.
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It bugs me a little when chapters mark their time on a campus from their original colonization when they closed and recolonized again later.
It's not a big thing, but when other chapters have persevered continuously, it seems a little lame to see chapters mention their founding dates as if they were there all along.
Of course, I can also see how four or five years off campus pales in comparison to 100 years of campus life, or whatever, or even that it would be hard to mention your history in a way that made it all clear without seeming kind of weird.
(I just remember that part of the DePauw scandal a few years ago had an element of let's recolonize in time for our 100 anniversary on campus, which seemed goofy.)