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Ohiogurls Retro 1997 recruitment
I thought that I would jump on the bandwagon and post a retro story since its summer and it seems like lately we can’t get a true story to save our life. So here goes………
My recruitment story takes place in 1997 at a school where Greek life was not super competitive but still popular enough that not every person going through got a bid or got their first choice. All of the sororities had houses 7 were on campus and one was off.
When I was in high school, the Greek system never really interested me because I always thought that sororities were for “dumb white girls”. And not being dumb or white I really had no interest in joining a Greek organization.
There was a girl on my floor who was totally gung ho about rushing and convinced me to go along to the informational that was being held at the rec.
As I was walking in some of the non white girls asked why I was going in there. I said to check it out. All I got was sneers and whispers from that group so I left. I didn’t want to be ridiculed and I guess this was just something that black girls don’t do. Maybe things were different in college than they had been in my town.
Now I guess I should preface that I grew up in a very diverse neighborhood. The area that I grew up in was actually the first in the nation to be built specifically as an integrated middle class area. I had gone to a majority white private school and my friends were a mix of some of everything (still are to this day).
Recruitment at my school took place the week after classes began and I can honestly say that I didn’t know a whole lot about the Greek system. After my friend got back, (we’ll call her Sadie) she asked why I had left. I told her and she reminded me that I cant base by life on what other people think and that there is always going to be someone who wasn’t going to agree with your choices. I too agreed and went to the last informational that was held the next night and signed up.
At the time that I went through rush there were 8 NPC sororities. One chapter has since closed. They were
Alpha Chi Omega
Alpha Omicron Pi
Alpha Xi Delta
Chi Omega
Delta Delta Delta
Kappa Delta
Phi Sigma Sigma
Pi Beta Phi
Since I have a secret Little House on the Prairie addiction. (I DVR it everyday on the Hallmark Channel) I’ll name the groups after characters from the show.
Mary
Charles
Caroline
Mrs. Olson
Nellie
Willy
Laura
Mr. Edwards
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