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Originally posted by 33girl
The local sorority's alums are not "automatic" national sisters, since they have not gone through ritual. They have to come back and be initiated. Depending on the age of the local and the policies of the national group, sometimes this entails just the girls who were in school when the national colonization started, and sometimes the national invites ALL local alums to become national sisters (I think they have to pass a basic info test).
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This depends on the org.
I'm the maintainer of the ADPi Valpo page that ValpoKD mentioned earlier (hiya!), and I graduated in 1995. At that time, the sororities had wanted to go national for years, but it was always "we want to go national, but we don't want others to go national." (Well, duh!) So in 1997-1998, everyone pretty much went national.
I was sent a letter of invitation, as were all of the alumnae of Delta Chi Epsilon and Phi Omega (the previous incarnations). All I needed to do was to pay for my pin and show up. I went though Alpha/pledge initiation, Delta/member initiation, and Pi/alumna initiation all in one fell swoop! (And we were initiated by Mrs. Dickey, woohoo!) But, I didn't have to take a national test. Other GLOs probably have different standards.
I will say, though, that those alumnae who go through and become alumnae initiates *tend* to be more active. That pin ain't cheap! I've felt that it was well worth it to become an alumna member, even though I live 1.5 hours away in Illinois. I serve as webmaster of their site, and try to get out there for Homecoming and Founder's Day. I may try to go out for Bid Day this year, too! I'm having fun watching and helping these girls recruit members by getting their message out to others.
It is a shame that we're only down to 7 sororities from 8; Delta Phi Kappa was small before it went national, and they just weren't able to make the full transition.
We've lost some fraternities over the past decade (1 last year, 3 others in the years between 1992-1998 or so), but I have heard *RUMORS* that another fraternity will be joining the campus, and that it's possibly going to be Lambda Chi Alpha (which is one of the three that closed while I was graduating, the only one of those three that didn't lose its charter, but just got too tiny after the house went substance-free).
So yeah, greek life seems to be very much alive and kicking at Valpo! Makes me proud.