Cool Beans! Thanks for your feedback!
(Sorors, why do I feel like I'm running a DID workshop?)
Let me add my 12 cents and summarize b4 I move to my next question.
Like Sorors dstbrat (welcome back!), mccoyred and everyone said, discretion is being careful about what you say and to whom. I think another part of discretion is being mindful of WHERE you say things. It's sounds obvious. HOPEFULLY no soror would scream the motto to another soror across campus. And I pray for the interest who walks up to a Delta on her yard and says "I'm crossing on your next line & there's nothing you can do about it!" If I'm chillin in my living room with mccoyred & we're discussing what happened during one of the sessions at convention and my non-Delta roommate comes in the apartment then, of course, the discussion would stop. But sometimes, like in the case of message boards & chat rooms, it's not all that easy to stop a conversation.
Before you start a thread about the pros & cons of, let's say, having pledges wear the exact same outfit for a week without washing it OR where to buy gifts that will win you a spot on the next line, you should ask yourself "who's going to see this (ie, local, regional and/or national officials)?" and, as mccoyred stated, "could there be negative reprecussions?" Now, as an interest you have no idea what kind of funny little rules we have going on. That's were the brain God gave you and the Delta you've met face to face and have been speaking to for a while (not the one you met in the cafeteria yesterday), come into play. It's my opinion that SHE should be your sounding board, not us on GC because it's harder for the conversation to be controlled on a message board and 8 times out of 10, we can't do anything to help you for real. Honestly speaking, we DON'T KNOW who is looking at these boards. There are 2 National officers/committee members THAT I KNOW OF who post on GC. There's no telling how many more are just reading. Not trying to scare anyone, I'm just being real. Six degrees of separation is a reality on the internet and in Delta. I'd hate to hear about someone's chances being messed up or severely delayed because they didn't know any better (but not so much if they ran their mouth too much).
My next question: If you could a design a workshop/seminar to prepare others for their journey to Deltaland, that is from the firm decision of "I want to be a Delta" to Initiation, what topics would you include & why? In light of this discussion, please keep it general.
OH! Salience, you wanted to know how the poem ties into all this. What I see it to mean is if you think carefully about what you're going to say/type before you do, you'll benefit in the long run. Which brings to mind another good question for my next seminar
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