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Originally posted by prophet
As for Beryana, why are you sorry? I am glad you are doing your job as a sister. You seem to think that your work is some thing out of the ordinary. It is not! It is your duty to give back to your sorority, like it is mine to do all that I have done in a year and a half as a undergraduate brother, Fraternity.Sorority.Council rep., Rush Chair, Big Brother(2), E-Board member, A.Pledge father, also helping expand to two schools(San Jose. & Univeristy San Francisco), and the list goes on for what I have done for my fraternity. As for claiming that honorary members will be more likely to do more in the long run, they better! It is because of the college members and college alums that there are even chapters alive! You remember that. Let me ask you one more thing, why did you say that I don't think a honorary member will have the heart of a true brother? Hello, he is a true brother, but not a brother that has experienced the whole brotherhood aspect.
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I'm sorry that you feel the way you do because you are actually alienating those that join your fraternity beyond college. They joined you because they felt there is something special about your organization - they saw something beyond what typical college students see. They saw the philanthropy and such which usually is not that high on college students' lists! Alumni members do not HAVE to help out with collegiate chapters. Actually its the alumni members that keep the fraternities and sororities alive in the grander scheme of things - they support the collegians. I never said that what I've done for AOII is something special (except to me!). I wanted to help out at the collegiate level as well as being involved with the alumnae chapter - and so I did. I was the Chapter Relations, Membership Education, New Member Education, PR, Alumnae, Philanthropy, Panhellenic, and Chapter Adviser - and driving 1.5 hours one way to get to the chapter because I wanted to be involved - as well as giving up a weeks time to go down and work to set up the fraternity's archives. I can promise you that being an adviser is not easy and many of my grey hairs are because of it - but I wouldn't have not done it for the world! There are many alumnae that were initiated in college that won't do half as much! I was also really active in my local sorority as Historian, Alumnae chair, Winter Carnival coordinator, New Member Educator, Treasurer, Panhel rep, and Vice President of Membership - all while taking 18 credits, working a full-time job AND studying abroad a semester. For me I experienced the 'whole aspect' of sisterhood but with a different organization so don't be so quick to judge people with the (what I see as) twisted view of what it means to be a brother or sister. So, we don't have as many event t-shirts but that does not mean that when we took our oaths to our respective organizations that we are any different and get anything less out of the experience. I actually think that we get more out of it than collegians due to the fact that we are there for different reasons. . .