Don't take oldu so seriously!

[oldu]

Some of you are taking my threads much too seriously. They are nothing more than interesting information uncovered by someone who has entirely too much free time! I am now retired but have a very efficient assistant who helps me. A non-Greek, she has become totally hooked on our Greek system and its history (I suspect she used to secretly laugh at my sophmoric hobby when we had more pressing work to do.) As a matter of fact the Phi Beta Kappa thread came as her suggestion. She said, "If I were running a Greek organization the group I would most want to mirror is Phi Beta Kappa because they have such high standards." As a former national board member, I thought that was probably about the most intelligent observation I had ever heard. Not knowing what the research would reveal, we did it. Doesn't make any group better than another but it is an interesting bit of trivia. What fascinates me most about our various comparisons is how different the top of the list looks using so many standards. There will be no final "American Idol" winner or parades. You can do your own.