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Originally Posted by ree-Xi
2. They cease all sorority-related activities, including holding meetings, sponsoring events, and on some campuses, stop wearing their letters. There's a Myth (I say myth bc I don't know if it's true or not) prohibiting two or more people of the disbanded organization from wearing letters at the same time because then they become "Gang-type" behaviors, but I have never seen absolute evidence of this. 
When I first got on campus freshman year, I had seen one girl wearing letters to a sorority I didn't know existed on campus. Turned out the chapter folded a few years prior and she was the last one to graduate. So it was really odd seeing her wearing those letters.
Just my personal experiences. |
MYTH. Women who are members of a closed chapter, unless they have been officially and specifically terminated by the national organization, become alumnae. Alumnae can wear their letters
any damn time they want.
If the school tells you not to wear letters, tell them to F.O. It's nothing they can police, any more than they can tell you not to wear your Ron Paul or Mussolini or this is what your baby looks like at 18 weeks t-shirt.
If the national org tells you not to wear letters, say, "Well then, you'll have to terminate me, which you probably don't have the balls to do because you think I'll forget about this in 5 years and send you a donation."
And I've heard of underground groups that stayed around for 10+ years. At that point you have to stop saying that they're just trying to piss off nationals, or just want to drink/haze, or anything else negative. There's a real sisterhood there, and obviously it has something that is lacking - as far as the women who join are concerned - in the other groups on campus. Especially with this generation that seems to value order and approval a hell of a lot more than the one or two generations previous.