[33girl]

And here is my #1, all-time, website pet peeve:

FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT'S HOLY, PUT A LOCAL HISTORY OF YOUR CHAPTER ON YOUR WEBSITE.

Unless you are the founding chapter of your organization, you have a separate local history. It's really tiresome to want to find out how chapters started, why they picked your sorority, and click on "history" only to read your national history, over and over and over again. I mean...how much effort does that show? You cut and paste from the national site? Why bother with a history section at all?

If you really don't know how your chapter began, here's what to do: you know your chapter founding date. 1) Look in old yearbooks from your alumni office from that time or before 2) call your national HQ, and ask them to look in the archives for any magazines/other history of your chapter's chartering 3) ask chapter alums for help compiling your history in your yearly newsletter, in the college's alumni magazine, and on your website.

I have heard people say "well we are national now, not local anymore" - maybe so, but you wouldn't even BE if the women who started your local hadn't had the idea to do so. You wouldn't be without the founding class, if you were a colonization from the ground up, without an existing group.

It's just plain disrespectful to omit your local history. Please stop doing so.