I had no idea they were petitioning to come back on tonight. I wish them the best of luck but FSU Panhellenic is notorious for blocking expansion. The BIGGER problems I was referring to wasn’t the witch thing but was Panhellenic’s rule that all chapters had to be at quota before they would expand. Maybe that’s changed since I left, but it’s always been their view to protect the chapters that we have before looking for new ones.
I doubt Panhellenic leaders, or the chapter representatives, are going to be swayed by a silly 20 year old rumor - I doubt they’d find it as detrimental as some of you seem to think. What’s going to effect them is the fact we have at least one chapter that’s been holding down the whole system with low numbers. The debate when I was there was whether to protect these chapters by not expanding or expand at the detriment of those chapters. I’m sure it’s the debate that persists to this day.
But I do think that problems will come if they do manage to get on. I think this rumor will have an effect on their initial recruitment. Recruitment is so caddy already, any rumor (I.e. a certain chapter and Ted Bundy) comes up over the course of the week. I’m sure they’ll get past it, but initially I think it would be something they would have to address. Just like a certain fraternity recently had to address a brutal rape charge, another one mght have to defend drug charges, how my own chapter has defended itself against rape charges more then once in the last 15 years. Fraternities get over this easily, 2 rushes a year, sororities are a diffrent story. I guess you'll have to see.
But to put the full brunt of the blame on Sig Ep is just ridiculous. I doubt we started the rumor, and I doubt we’re the only ones who have spread it. Every campus has legends, and stories, and tales that might have been based in truth at some point but have just lost validity over time. At FSU alone there’s the grave of a “witch” in a cemetery near the school, a ghost in Chawthorn Hall, another ghost in the William Johnson building. They’re stories, wife tales, myths, legends. Nothing more nothing less. So let’s not blow this out of proportion. This isn’t Sig Ep’s fault, this isn’t my fault, this is just one of those things that has happened, and till now there has never been a reason to proactively address it. If they get on campus tonight then I guess there will be a reason.
This is NOT a case of ONE chapter attacking another chapter. And as far as bringing it up, I prefaced my remarks by saying that I don’t think it’s true, but at the same time I’m curious as to why there was a rumor in the first place. If this is digging up skeleton’s then I’m guilty, but without information about how this started I don’t have the information to make it stop. In fact writing the current chapter president and telling him to stop would most likely only serve to strengthen the rumor.
I find it hard to believe that there is a campus where GLO’s aren’t stigmatized by old reputations. I know our past has been far from spotless, but I’m also not afraid to admit what our mistakes were and how they’ve made us a better chapter. Nicknames pinned on us back in the 90’s still get chanted by rivals during football games. You laugh, take it with a grain of salt and move on, not petition the chapter for a letter writing campaign to abolish this “smear campaign”.
Let me reiterate the fact that this rumor wasn’t started by Sig Ep, wasn’t originated by Sig Ep, wasn’t started by Sig Ep, and yes all three of those mean the same thing.
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Originally posted by aopirose
Does it really make your chapter feel THAT important to run someone’s name and reputation into the ground? .
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90% of my chapter probably doesn't even remember the name of the sorority that lived in our house. "THAT important?" I mean do you seriously think this is a target smear campaign to keep you off FSU?