Go National GLOs!!!
carnation,
Congratulations, I love to hear about national GLOs expanding! I really do believe they add so much to campus life.
I was advising for my chapter on a small campus a few years ago and I witnessed 60 year old locals die because they refused to stop hazing. They had all sorts of reasons other than their own actions that they blamed for their dwindling numbers. One popular theory of theirs was that women were joining NPC orgs due to the "money" that NPC orgs were pouring into our chapters! This, of course, was far from the truth. (It'd be nice, but NPC orgs do not usually hand out diamond rings and cars on Bid Day). They absolutely refused to be honest about their own actions and how absolutely crazy and cruel they were. Thank goodness women just refused to put up with it and left.
It's really not very panhellenic of me, but it used to make me crazy that we had formal rush with them. It would make my skin crawl as the Rho Chis would explain to the pnms how sororities do not support hazing, that it is, in fact, illegal. I knew this was true for our NPC orgs but not for the locals. Our only recourse was to develop a "what is hazing?" program for the pnms which gave them examples of hazing and numbers to call if any such situation arose.
At any rate, I relate somewhat to your experience, but I cannot imagine having to witness it every day at my place of work, that would seriously make me batty!
Good luck with your quest for Nationals!
Oh, and if you don't mind, may I ask a question? I'm from the Northeast, went to school here, live here, advised here. What sororities do you consider "traditional Southern sororities?" I've seen you use that phrase before, and it led me to wonder which organizations you are talking about. I just wondered because many of my close sisters are actually Southern women and I am famous for making them regale me with stories of their hometowns and their southern culture. I would drive them crazy but I couldn't get enough of it! Some people dream of spending a year in Provence, I dream of spending a year in the American South. (Maybe I've seen "Steel Magnolias" and "Shag, The Movie" a few too many times?)
violets
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