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I don't understand it either, but it's how they are. I ave up a long time ago trying to understand the locals on the campus. I really wish they'd force all the locals to go national, but I don't think that will ever happen, sadly.
*I have no problems with locals at all....I have a problem with chapters (or groups, in the case of a local) that haze and don't respect anyone besides themselves.
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< Note, not attacking Buttonz, she just happens to have the unfortunate quote >
I understand what you're saying, but I don't know if it would fix the problem to go national, wouldn't the local "traditions" (as dubious as they are
) stick around, just with some poor NPC's letters attached?. Just changing the letters and putting in some programming doesn't fix deep ingrained internal problems. I think it would have to be the full disolution of the group, meaning let it be dormant and then colonize a new (local or NPC or whatever) many years later. Perhaps greater oversight by Greek Life/Student Affairs?
I always go through the doomsday scenario of Otterbein's system going all-national. I say doomsday because I think that a LOT of women would be really, truly, seriously heartbroken to have their 70+ year old history wiped out and replaced by something else that they never pledged fidelity to, especially if it was simply mandated that we MUST be national by someone outside of our sorority. It would just hurt. I know that's not what you're getting at , but I can understand why people would fight to stay local. If it was of the general concensus of the campus sorority council and chapter members/alum, then ok, yeah, people will still be upset but eventually will suck it up, but if its administrators or just the NPC's on campus telling the locals/regionals to be national, there's gonna be some friction. The concept of "being local" is sort of isolating, and the defending of their existance is something that most local chapters (not looking for colonization) take very, very very seriously. Call it culture, I suppose.
That all being said, I'm absolutely, 100000% with everyone else saying, "RUN AWAY! RUN FAR FAR AWAY!". If they're admitting this in public, imagine what they'd do behind closed doors. Please remember that not all locals are hazers, not all nationals are angels, and vice versa of course.
So yes and no, people do have rush experiences like this. But they have rush experiences like this in almost every system, no matter what the type of sorority. It's part of the diaspora. You, fortunately, were smart enough to recognize that this org probably isn't *quite* up to snuff. Sooo, now that you know what you *don't* want, go get what you do
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