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wow, dont know where to start, so we will just start here:
Hi, Im one of the founders of Sigma AEPI(and Im alumni), or Sigma as we like to call it. Im not telling you my name yet, because Im not comfy doing that just right now, and Im not going to be spending a lot of time responding right now to some of the comments becuase i'm supposed to be studying for the damn LSAT thats Monday.
However I am responding because I think Sigma is getting a bad rap, some justified and some not. And I am so nervous doing this because I love that sorority and I love the girls in that sorority and I dont want them to think poor of me, or others to think poor of them.
Let me highlight a couple things:
The girls dont have a national governing board. It was started as something jewish women on campus could belong to if they wanted to. The guys had AEPi, we had NOTHING. I am from LA , an area with a HUGE jewish population, where being jewish is just a part of life. At Davis, Im one of a handful of jews, and I felt a bit out of place since I was also the first jew some had met. The sorority enabled me to continue to have jewish friends and do stuff with them (shabbat dinners, etc) and form a different type of bond then I have with my non-jewish friends. Not an unequal bond, just a different one.
We have never been affiliated with AEPhi, AEPi or any other organization except the campus hillel. Many of the guys in AEPi are our friends though because it is such a small jewish community. The idea at least from my end was to get established and then see what national one we could join. thats because unlike fraternaties, Nationals wont even look at you unless you are already a well established sorority. Being comfortable with the way things are run, the girls (waaaay before MTV got in the picture) had started to branch out to other campuses in response to requests to start a chapter. What you are viewing is a sorority in the beginning stages. Are their going to be differences? Hell yeah. Are you going to disagree with them? Hell yeah? But what you have to remember is that this is a learning process for all of us and that in order to become better, stronger, organization, we are going to make some mistakes that we will need to learn from. Dont judge us for doing some things wrong, help us so the picture looks right.
Reading the replies, I at first was embrassed, but now Im just kinda angry. The show isnt going to portray us necissarily the way we are. Its going to portray us in the best way that sells! We need your support. We have been working hard for the last 4 years to be a member of the greek community, and at the first sign of conflict, I feel like we are being left to fend for ourselves. Lets act as a community, not judge each other, or the show until we know all the facts, ok? Dont like the show? Dont watch (I may not myself). But dont sell Sigma off either
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