Why Local?

[SOPi_Jawbreaker]

Ok, I'm not from a local, but we only have one other chapter on the east coast and it's in Maryland, and our chapters are smaller than NPC chapters, so I think it sometimes can have a similar feel to a local or regional GLO. I love that my sorority is smaller. I feel like I got to know everyone pretty well in a short amount of time. It's easier to get everyone together since there's fewer people. Some may look at it as we had more work since we had fewer members, but I see it as all members got a chance to hold leadership positions. And in any given semester, we have few, if any, girls that are just members-at-large. Our dues were lower, which makes a huge difference when your parents aren't supportive of you going Greek and you have to pay your own dues. We didn't have to follow a certain schedule of events for rush, so when I was rush chair, I had a lot of room to make decisions about what events we were going to have, how many events we were going to have, and when/where we were going to have them. This way I had the freedom to space out rush events a little bit so that nobody iis getting burned out. We also didn't have to worry about if a rushee walked out of an info session with a napkin or a soda. And lastly, even though we've had girls graduate and move far away (California, Texas, Florida, China, Korea), we still keep in touch through AIM, blogs, phone calls, and emails. And we've had alumnae use their vacation time to visit one another. During the summer (when everyone goes to their respective hometowns), we have undergrads and alumnae meeting up in Philadelphia, New York, DC, and even Seoul, Korea. We've had alumnae visit Penn State from New Jersey, New York, Virginia, California, and Illinois. Even though our alumnae may not live nearby, they're still there for the undergrads when they need help or advice or questions answered or just someone to talk to.

A little bit off on a tangent (I didn't want to start a whole other thread), but can someone from an all-local university or someone familiar with an all-local university explain to me what the school's reasons are for banning national GLO's? At Penn State, they're trying to get all the GLO's to go national and the reasoning Penn State gave was that we would be accountable to a national office and would have to follow certain rules and meet certain requirements to maintain our charters. I'm just curious as to how schools justify going to other way (not allowing nationals and only allowing locals).