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Originally posted by sugar and spice
I do agree with this to an extent. I think that from a marketing standpoint, it may have been a mistake for SDT and AEPhi to try to distance themselves from their "historically Jewish" roots.
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I can't speak for SDT but I can speak for AEPhi. AEPhi has never tried to distance itself from it's "historically Jewish" roots. While we are sure to mention that we welcome women of all religions it is mentioned alongside our founding by 7 Jewish women. From what I have seen chapters are often founded by interest groups of mostly jewish women.
I find, for my members, the appeal is not finding a chapter where everyone is jewish but finding a place where it is ok to be jewish. We don't have events on the Jewish Sabbath and holidays and kosher food is always available. Our holiday party celebrates Christmas and Chanukah. For the non-Jewish members this isn't a big deal because most of have always grown up with Jewish and non-jewish friends. I find that our chapters consideration for one religion extends to others. Just as wouldn't have an event on Yom Kippur, we wouldn't have an event on Good Friday.
This, I believe, is AEPhi's niche and I think it will always factor into where our chapters are established. So we may never have a chapter at Ole Miss or more than couple of chapters in the South and Midwest. While it would be great to have chapters at every school under the sun, its not important. We're small but we're respected and that's all I need.
And I don't want extension caps, we don't need structured NPC pity. If any of these small NPC's end up on the large side I am sure they wouldn't like the idea then.