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Originally posted by DeltaBetaBaby
What are sweethearts? Is that like a big brother organization?
Also, have you ever dealt with legacies before? If you have been there for thirty years, my guess is that you would only have little sisters, not kids, but becoming a phi mu chapter, and considering where you are, you may have some daughters and granddaughters coming through.
Do you usually take mostly freshman pledges? I could also see that changing with Phi Mu, for your first year or two of colonization. I bet there are a lot of awesome upperclassmen who never rushed, but may be intrigued by the idea of a national sorority.
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Sweethearts are our guy friends who help out with the sorority. I know things will change, but they come to our meetings, rush events, pledge events, work weekend... they help out because they love us (and I must say our sweethearts ROCK). I'm not sure what a big brother organization is. The reps from Phi Mu told us we could keep our sweethearts until they graduate out... but they can't come to all our meetings and events anymore.
We have dealt with Legacies before. They're automatically chosen during rush if they're a legacy. I don't know what kids are, but we have little sisters and big sisters... and grand big sisters etc. Also we have little brothers (sweethearts).
Our pledges are usually mostly freshman. This year I think we had two or three girls that weren't freshman. They didn't pledge their freshman year for some reason, and now they decided to pledge or have friends in our sorority. I have heard from some upperclassment that are VERY interested in pledging now that we'll be national.
I wonder though if this will cause any tension between sisters. They didn't want to pledge our organization when we were local, but now that we're going national with a new (well-known) name... they want to be part of us. I don't want girls to pledge only because of our name. I want them to pledge because they want to be part of something great. Hopefully they'll look past the letters and cute merchandise. It's sort of like buying a Ford truck, because of the name - and not because it's the best truck and quality out on the market. You know? Sorry about the bad analogy. My daddy taught me to love Fords but I don't know anything about Chevys or Dodge trucks. I just like FORD cause of the name... cause Dad likes it.