[Titchou]

You have no idea what all I - and my sisters - did to try and save the chapter. When you talk about someone's chapter of initiation, you are getting VERY personal. What did YOU do to help? The hippie/anti Viet Nam movements of the 60's and 70's did Greeks in general no favors.

Sorry if I am a pragmatist. I went to Catholic schools thru high school and was mostly raised by my father so I look at things from a very practical point of view. My first car was my grandmother's 7 year old Chevy when she finally got a new car. A year later, I wanted a 65 GTO and had to have my father co-sign for me as I was 20 a couldn't legally sign a loan on my own. He told me he would have the bank write a new one when I turned 21. I agreed to those terms. He took me to lunch on my 21st birthday and we went by the bank for me to sign a loan on my own. Though my parents always paid for my schooling- private school, college, sorority - I worked summers during high school and got a part time job in college when I realized my allowance would not go as far as I wanted. I knew - without even asking- that my father wouldn't increase my allowance - even though he could afford to. That's how I was raised. With all I ever needed but knowing that it was up to me to find a way to get the extras. Just because my parents could afford something was not reason enough for me to have it. All I was suggesting was that the mother find a way...not a cut of an arm. For crying out loud. Get a grip, folks.