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Originally posted by 33girl
I think some of the situations may have been exacerbated by the fact that Sigma was a Jewish interest sorority. They got raked over the coals for asking women if they were Jewish, but IMO they were justified - same as if they would have been an agriculture or engineering sorority and asked women if they were ag or engineering majors. Unfortunately, we didn't get to see any of the "Jewish" parts of their sorority to really determine if their asking that was valid. The new group doesn't have any affiliation like that so hopefully they won't get slapped w/ the "sororities are snobby" tag.
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A big problem that I saw with the last season of Sorority Life was a lack of tolerance for the differences between locals and nationalsl. A lot of people seemed to be assuming that anything different from the NPC way of life was automatically wrong. When the Sigma girls asked the rushees if they were Jewish, there was a gasp from the majority of NPC sorority girls on this board: "I can't believe they did that! We would never do that!" And it's true that in an NPC sorority that would be very much frowned upon -- but Sigma isn't an NPC and doesn't have to go by the same rules. The same went for a lot of the so-called hazing allegations -- just because your nationals/internationals says it's hazing doesn't mean it necessarily is in the eyes of the law. I remember people also disapproving of the way the Sigmas still used terms like "rush," "pledges," "pledge mom," etc. Just because the NPC has retired these terms doesn't mean that everybody has to.
There seemed to be a lot of intolerance for anything beyond the NPC guidelines for running a sorority, and that was sad. I know that the majority of us here are in national organizations, and that it's frustrating for us to have to explain to rushees the difference between the "Sorority Life" sorority and our organizations. I know it's frustrating that we have to deal with the fallout of this TV show. But the fact that the Sigmas did some things over the course of the season that wouldn't be allowed in NPC orgs doesn't mean that they're any less legitimate of an organization -- they're just different.