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Originally Posted by vtgreekalum
One thing no one mentioned was the apparent disappearance of the Fraternity little sister programs. We had 20-25 girls who were mostly independents -usually the girlfriends or relatives of brothers and their friends. They helped decorate the house,
went to intramural events and rush events, got to wear letters, paid no dues; like "cheerleaders" for the Fraternity. There was nothing overtly sexual about the sitiuation, although the Sororities we held functions with usually requested they not come.
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Some of our fraternities had little sisters, but they had a rushing and pledging program much like the sororities did - except, of course, they were voted on by the other little sisters AND the fraternity brothers. In one fraternity, almost all the little sisters were also sisters of the same sorority; in 2 other fraternities, the LSs weren't allowed to belong to a sorority at all. They paid dues, although not nearly as much as sorority dues. Sometimes they dated the brothers but sometimes not.
They were not allowed to attend mixers the fraternities had with sororities, as those were closed parties for the fraternity and sorority only and the sorority could have gotten a rush infraction for having nonmembers at a closed function. As far as open fraternity parties or fraternity formals, of course LSs attended those.
Lots of sorority women (then and now) get their panties in a bunch over little sisters, but I never had a problem with them. It's not like they lived in the fraternity house or something and the fraternity brothers weren't ordered to date them. For some women, it was a good option.
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