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If you read the current President's message on the AKA national webpage, you will see that there was no active chapter at Cal State (the city chapter was suspended 2 years ago), and that the ladies who were "pledging" the girls may not have EVER been members of the Sorority.
This leads me to believe that even if undergrad chapters were eliminated, there would be women who would enter into an illegal and non-official process even though they would not actually ever be considered members of the Sorority. There are also Sorors and non-sorors (perps and renegades) who would continue to lead these "underground" processes. For example I know of a fraternity in my area that has been off of a particular yard for some time, yet new "members" continue to show up. None of them could possibly be nationally recognized! I know of no way for this fraternity's national headquarters to monitor this behavior (except to sue these proported members), because it is common campus knowledge that this fraternity is off the yard (and the old members were expelled from the fraternity), yet new "recruits" are ready and willing to "sign up" every semester. Even if expelled members are posted in a public medium like a web page, some interests will allow them to "pledge" them knowing that the process is not legal.
I don't have any answer of how to change THAT mentality. I personally feel that the Sorority should sue any person who proports to be a member, especially if they commit a crime while proporting to be a member.
In 1908....the year of the GREAT...............
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