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Originally posted by AKA2D '91
you never know what one will or will not do regardless of who they know or where they went to school....
how you feel about your sorority sisters in this situation is more important than my SORORS of AKA, don't you think?
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You have misinterpreted my intentions and my comment. My comments were as they usually are, totally general in nature.
(But on a personal aside, I DO KNOW MY SCHOOL AND I DO KNOW HOW THE GREEKS GET DOWN THERE.) ANYONE who graduated from Howard University circa late 80's ..we are talking about folks who are still in their 30's ...VERY YOUNG IN GREEKDOM.. who would come on campus, or out in public in para, where they may meet someone who went to HU, (Howardites are EVERYWHERE)who did not pledge at HU, let alone became an honorary member, would be looked at like... HUH? This is not AKA specific.
Please do not take it personally. The fact you have not seen your Soror all decked out in para is probably not coincidental. (yes, speculation on my part...but I KNOW MY SCHOOL) Remember, Michelle saw ABOVE ground pledging, when it was all very legal. And her peers would be GREEKS who without a doubt pledged. The whole concept of MIP would have been alien to her since she not was not a member, AND she SAW the publicly visual side of pledging, which on Howard's campus is gone now. The only remnants in public you will see now are the "coming out" shows in the spring, where NEW members are introduced...NOT probates.
The scenario begs the question (again to the general Greek populace) regarding the feelings expressed here on the nature of the subject "famous greeks..or in this case inaccurate famous greeks." My follow up to the question was how do you feel about members(not necessarily famous) who PURSUED graduate membership who you know could have gone undergrad? I mean members who either did not make line or did not even consider undergraduate membership at all, how do you feel about them being members of your oganization?
Maybe this question was too sensitive for anyone to answer. I apologize to all who may have taken offense. But, I do have a scenario, that I thought was interesting. To be PC, I will not "out" the org. I am talking about.
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Recently, I ran into a college buddy of mine who crossed grad 4 years ago. This buddy is now a member of XYZ fraternity here in NY. He had the audacity to tell me when we were in undergrad he thought XYZ was not on point. Now, I was cool with many members of XYZ fraternity, and not only were those brothers ON POINT...I MEAN THEY MADE IT HAPPEN in all of their programming, but they were very involved on campus. I straight checked him...I was personally offended.
I think he thought I was going to clown him because he knows I crossed undergrad. Let's keep it real, most of us are only in an undergraduate chapter for a couple of years. The majority of your Greek life, should you actually take the lifetime comittment to heart, will be in a graduate chapter. Its all good. But don't think disrespecting the undergraduates at our school is cool simply because they are undergrads and I am going to think its cool because I too am in grad now...SORRY. I know who was making it happen. IMHO, the proper thing would have been for him to say...it was not my time back in undergrad, I am happy I waited. BTW, this brother is thorough, but he lost a lot of Greek cool points with me on that one.