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Originally posted by 33girl
See, I took it as the other chapter saying "OUR GPA is 3.5, why don't you go ask XYZ what THEIRS is and see the difference" in a bitchy sort of way.

That is exactly how it should be taken. Because that is how it was said.

Originally posted by Shadokat Instead of writing here about the problems that the Panhellenic has in terms of following rules, you need to get a member of your sorority into that position of "power" on the Panhellenic. If you use rotation, this shouldn't be an issue. If you're electing these positions, then it's high time you or someone in your chapter ran to make things happen.

I've tried...trust me...

I was placed on slating committee by our President because she could not attend it that night and because she knew that I wouldn't let the BS happen since I have been a member of council in the past.
Anyways....lets just say that this position (obviously head of recruitment for panhellenic) has been dominated by this chapter for X number of years. This particular year, three women were running for the position, two of which were qualified. Between these two women, slating committee had a heated debate over who would be the best candidate. Because of my feelings toward this "trend" that had been started, I pointed it out in front of everyone, including our greek life advisor. This chapter breeds a woman every year to take this position and because of their way with words and their ability to collaborate with the outgoing officer, they get the position. I wanted to change that so in the process, of course I made enemies, however, it was a fact that needed to be stated. The woman from the other chapter was slated, however, not enough votes passed the slate and it was also contested by the dominating chapter's candidate. She did not recieve enough votes to be placed on the slate....so long story short, we went through many elections only to elect the person who continued this trend.

So things have been done, but it's just kind of like this virus that doesn't go away.

Originally posted by 33girlDo you mean they were wearing t-shirts that had things like "homecoming queen 50 years in a row, most members, highest GPA" written on the t-shirt during rush? If so that's pretty obnoxious, but they could be just as obnoxious on their website. Still, it's not out of the ordinary for schools to have rules about sorority members not wearing letters or "identifying articles" (i.e. party shirts, old bid day shirts) while rush is taking place. Maybe something like that should be instituted.

It was on their bid day shirts which was stated something like, its not easy being the best...but around here its tradition....

i'm sorry but i take that as unpanhellenic and underminding the "spirit of the rule"

so i hope that clears up some things....