I'm proud to be in a local!!!!!
My chapter chooses to stay local for many reasons. We are the oldest sorority on campus, we govern ourselves, lower dues, and mostly because our sorority was founded with the intention of staying permanently local!!
Why do you think that locals can't connect with sisters across the country? Even though we are only at one school doesn't mean that everyone stays in the same city...we have girls all over the world...Australia, Saudi Arabia, Nevada, California, Arizona, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Ohio and in many, many more places.
Also, just because we are local doesn't mean that we are the only one. We have found other sororities and fraternities that share our name.
Sororities
University of Michigan, Flint, Michigan
Vincennes University, Vincennes, Indiana
Hamilton College, Clinton, New York
Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas
Fraternities
Hope College, Holland, Michigan
Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
There is also an honorary society named Alpha Theta Chi...I guess it is big in the south.
I have also done research and found national groups who started locally as Alpha Theta Chi before affiliating.
Since we are local we think that it is neat that others share our letters. We have been in contact with a couple of the other organizations and will probably meet up with them soon.
And NO, we don't allow anyone to just join our sorority. We are even more picky during rush than the other sororities (we rush with them) And for you information if you are not in school then you cannot participate in sorority events.
Sorry, our "rich traditions" don't include incidents of hazing. And we have absolutely no probelm retaining members. Unlike other sororities at our school who have girls join and then drop out the following semester, our girls usually stick around until graduation and are very active as alumni.
We also have very strict risk management and alcohol guidelines so it is probably just the locals at your school who are slacking off on that.
I think that is kind of stupid to assume that a national would give a local more organization!!! Come to my school...WRONG!!!! All of the nationals that are there were once local...let me say...NOT ORGANIZED at all!!! We've got it together more than they do.
There is always someone who accepts a bid from a sorority to come to find that it is the wrong sorority for her. In the past year that has happened many times at our school. We have had girls disaffiliate from their national in hope of joining our sorority. This has happened FOUR times within the past year!!!!
Also, just to add my two cents...there are a lot of colleges out there who are forcing nationals to go local or do not even allow nationals!! So it works both ways.
I'm sorry if my comments seem pretty heated but I don't like it when people generalize and stereotype different organizations.
Have a nice day
