I am a founder of my chapter, and I've been a sister for over 7 years. The entire process from initial interest to active membership to alumna membership has been a great learning process for me, and has shaped who I am in many ways.
We had problems with some of the Latino student organizations on our campus for a while. Many of their members felt that we should not have started a Latina sorority on our campus because of past incidents with IFC and NPC chapters and members of the Chicano/Latino community - in particular, official fraternity songbooks that were exposed to have degrading lyrics about Mexican women, and a couple of "Mexican Fiestas" in which participants had to come in dirty old clothing and literally crawl under a fence in the mud to get in the party after someone sprayed down their backs with water hoses (you can probably figure out what that was supposed to symbolize).
Every now and again someone who is against LGLOs will stir things up and my actives will have to just take it in stride. We were the first LGLO on our campus, but now there are several, as well as some MCGLOs. It's nice to see that students have a variety of options to chose from if they want to go LGLO.
Last edited by LatinaAlumna; 04-06-2004 at 09:03 PM.
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