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Originally Posted by jazing
I find the growth of SAEPi fascinating. It started out as a local then quickly expanded. I figure no sorority follows the Jewish mission like we do, but that is understandable. I think is unheard of for us to be 50/50, and the same for AEPhi. I don't think DPhiE is that Jewish either. There was one other one but it's name escapes me.
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I don't follow your post exactly, I'd appreciate some clarification on what you mean where I've bolded.
If you look to the NPC, every sorority "started out as a local" and then expanded, some quickly and some slowly. That is the nature of things--I think it would be very hard to simultaneously start five chapters of the same sorority from scratch. I imagine that AEPi was founded the same way.
Just for your reference (someone more in the know, feel free to comment), I don't think that DPhiE was ever founded as a Jewish sorority. I'm pretty sure that it was founded as a non-sectarian sorority welcoming all women, after discrimination the founders had faced? Maybe on some campuses, individual chapters have many Jewish members...?
Interestingly enough, while many chapters of SAEPi have a fair amount of non-Jewish members (some more than others--my own chapter is about 90% Jewish, some other chapters are much less) we all stick very close to our Jewish values. Non-Jewish members are welcomed with open arms and an understanding of what they are getting into: a sorority that holds Jewish values (which are not that different from any kind of moral values) and has Jewish events. My personal experience with my chapter is that our non-Jewish members embrace everything we do and are interested in Judaism, even when they actively practice a different religion. Not all of our members who are technically Jewish even actively practice Judaism, and all of that diversity is one of the things I love most about my chapter.