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Originally posted by AOIIsilver
Fourth, as is continually mentioned on these boards, commitment to a GLO is a lifetime commitment. The other side of that commitment coin is the GLO's responsibility to its members. That responsibility entails supporting men and women throughout their lifecycle, including growing older, getting married/having a partner (if he/she so chooses), and having children (if he/she so chooses).
Taken together, higher education students are changing, and higher education students are changing on many campuses. If GLO's wish to survive on some campuses in these times of academic/student diversification, then perhaps they had also better consider the needs of the various PNMs who will be coming to the institutions.
My academic 2 cents....
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Wow, well-said! I cut some of your statements down, if that's okay.
We go on and on about how membership is a lifetime commitment, and NPC/NIC groups often receive the brunt of questioning about how we tend to be a "college thing." Well, when we're not accepting of the wide range of what someone may experience in a lifetime, we're making light of that commitment. Not everyone's life trajectory goes from Daddy's house to sorority house to husband's house--we must be more accepting of "non-traditional" life paths, because they're becoming the rule, not the exception.
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If a married woman wants to join, she has probably already weighed the pros and cons and is making the best decision for HER. You don't have the right to tell her what she should and shouldn't do, and you don't have any right to tell her what her priorities are or should be when you aren't her.
Did any of you think that maybe, just maybe ANY non-traditional member would have the seriousness of purpose to contribute to your sisterhood a little bit more than organizing the mixer with Kappa? Did anyone stop to think that she probably knows how to juggle her responsibilities and priorities a little bit better than a 19 year old? Did anyone stop to think that, at an age a little bit older than your average collegian, GPA might be a top priority and wouldn't consider joining if her grades and workload could handle it? No, probably not--because so many of the young women who posted were more concerned about how it "looks" to have a married or pregnant prospective member, and what other people would "think."
Women have been juggling marriage and academia for decades now, with a considerable degree of success.
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