[sairose]

I *still* think I would check with your national headquarters just to make sure. Not that there's anything wrong with these extra rituals; I know they surely must add a lot to your bond. But, so did our Rose Service. We'd done it for *years* and finally Nationals told us that for now, it had to be stopped because it was not official.

However, the good news is that the new National VP of Ritual and Fraternity Education is going to collect the rituals from chapters for the Rose Service and try to make an official one. See, different chapters did the ritual slightly different, and they wanted us to stop it until they could create one official Rose Service.

Hope I didn't sound rude...sure didn't mean to. It's just that we thought our unofficial ritual was okay, and turns out, it wasn't. So...just wanted to check.

TBS is great! They have a very strong chapter at my school. Just wanted to stick that in there.