I pledged some moons ago, and I pledged for a looooooong time (too long actually). I also know that after I graduated, the chapter where I was made was suspended for 10 years (it will expire in 2003). I ask, how can you really love your sorority, yet put it's existence in jeopardy to perish. I was told that following my process, I would bond with my big sisters, but I spent most of my remaining time angry and confused by their actions. I am also smart enough to know that you must come in under the process available to you. My fiance's mother pledged in '67 and their process was much more demanding than anything that greeks are going through today (open pledgeship on the yard, A's or K's cut into their hair, interest club, then pledge club then crossing. The process could consume your entire undergrad years). They would probably think that those of us (new schoolers) who pledged the longest really didn't do much at all. If a truly old head called one of us paper we wouldn't like it, so I don't refer to anyone in greekdom that way. I embrace all that enter into greekhood and judge them by what they do after crossing. I know many sorors who took the long road into sisterhood, but did nothing for Alpha Kappa Alpha after crossing. They became mere t-shirt wearers.
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