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Our orgs have never been perfect, yet they have maintained coming up on 100 years. All of a sudden people aren't interested? Ahhh no. There are people showing up at rush and there are reject letters going out.

I think part of the problem is the quality of interests. The new generation isn't what it used to be. We are in this era of instant gratification and they've got a different mind frame. I wonder if we had an open meeting during which interests could come and just pay to be a member, how huge would our orgs be? Similar to the Black Caucus and NAACP on campus, membership would be great in the beginning, but decrease as time went on. No one wants to work to get in and no one wants to be dedicated to attending meetings and planning programs, community service and social events afterwards.

"We lack luster, we aren't active enough, we are stuck up, we haze", etc. Are these assumptions regional or everywhere? The negatives on GC isn't indicative of what our orgs are really doing to me. The Ivy Leaf is always showing Sorors reaching the goals of AKA. Call me biased, but it isn't entirely the shortcomings of our organizations.

In regards to darnder's suggestions, that was the situation on my campus with the exception of 2 and 8. With that said, this doesn't mean there wasn't BGLO drama. If there was personal drama before one was greek, drama in other student orgs, and drama in class, why wouldn't one expect drama to flow over to greek orgs-undergrad and grad? All the drama on my campus wasn't going to deter me from becoming a member of AKA. I can see all the bad and GOOD things I would have missed out on if I had let the petty things get in my way.