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Originally Posted by als463
I remember one of the girls in charge of our Panhellenic that made the comment that local sororities are just clubs with letters.
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Wow, what a bitch. I hope it wasn't one of my sisters or I'll need to go and school her on that. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Bloomsburg has 5 local and 5 national sororities and AFAIK there is no difference between the two as far as the campus is concerned - you aren't joining a "lesser" group because you join a local. We had 2 local fraternities at Clarion while I was in school and they were on the higher end of the prestige ladder.
ASTalumna put it quite well - it's not as bad as it used to be because of the internet, but if you would have said "Pi Beta Phi" at my school people would have said "WTF is that??" Because of the way NPCs and NICs rush, you are pretty much focused on what's on your campus. The only reason people knew about Tri Delta was because of the Saturday Night Live skit.
You have to remember - you are at a school with one of the biggest Greek systems in the nation. There are a lot more options than the average student ever sees.