My question is: who's to say what's "real" and what's not?
That is the million dollar question. I know on my campus, when my sorority got started, we had plenty of people thinking we weren't real. I knew that this was the feeling based on the types of questions we got asked....many of the same ones that FuzzieAlum stated in her post. It was like, just b/c we were new and no one had heard of us before, we were fake. It was crazy! But w/in time, people began to realize that we were indeed a "real" sorority. I'm not sure what it took for them to realize it though....it may have been our programs or how we recruited just as many members as they did...I have no clue. Nevertheless, I'm glad we've established ourselves as "real"