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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

Learning the Greek alphabet takes no time at all - and being able to identify other groups, or even other chapters of your own GLO - is important. If you are going to belong to a GLO, you should at the very least know the Greek alphabet. Who would want to remain willfully ignorant of the meaning of letters used by your own organization? And any one who had to learn Greek letters as part of their new member program would NOT be asking stupid questiions (at least not if they had truly learned it.) If your new member program taught you nothing more important than the Greek alphabet, the problem is the new member program - not learning the Greek alphabet, but failing to have any programming that taught you anything more important. Perhaps you should address the issue with your HQ.
Oh - and the possessive form of "it" is "its", not "it's". One of my personal pet peeves . . .

I'm surprised at the vitriol in this post. It seems as though you are truly offended that my NM program did not include memorizing the greek alphabet in order. The alphabet was listed in our NM book, but we were not asked to memorize it. We didn't have time. Unfortunately, when you have six weeks to prepare for initiation, somethings have to be sacrificed. At the time our HQ apparently felt that giving us a source to find the information was good enough. Maybe you should improve your reading comprehension skills. If you look back at my prior posts, I said we had too many important things to learn to bother with trivial information (ie. we'd have time to learn that after initiation.) I don't feel the least bit embarrassed or "willfully ignorant" for not being able to recite the greek alphabet. As I said in multiple posts, we were very capable of correctly recognizing any greek letter that came our way. If we forgot one of the more rarely used letters, we had a source to look it up. Forgive me if I think placing so much emphasis on this small matter is ridiculous since the way we were taught served us just fine. Just because you were taught one way doesn't mean that everyone has to be taught the same way. As for my statement that people who ask others what their letters say probably had been taught the greek alphabet, that was in reference to other posters who mentioned such events. My point is that most sororities have the greek alphabet as part of their NM education so it doesn't always stick with them. In the end, all of this has been taken out of context. The matter at hand was whether or not our NM education programs should be changed to included hazing to make members feel more special about being initiated. I also suggest that you consider that criticizing what my sorority found important about NM education implies that you think your own sorority is the best. I thought at GC we tried to shy away from that kind of mentality...or was I wrong?