Your thoughts on AI: discussion goes here.

[EE-BO]

Originally Posted by macallan25

Is this alum. initiate thing very big at big Southern schools? I have to think most of the sorority girls I know would think it was really odd for an older, graduated, working woman to want to get initiated/join a sorority.

I have never heard of it happening through the strong UT chapters except for house mothers and mothers of actives who did a lot of work for their daughter's sororities.

Seeing how socially important sorority membership is at UT, I am willing to bet the chapters have plenty of experience dealing with AI-seekers who have personal motives and pretty much blow them off.

Truth be told, until I came to GC I did not even have a clue that there were people who were able to sorority-shop and get themselves in as AIs.

[Adelphean]

My question is, what does it matter if there is a sub forum or not?

Anyone can come on this site and do a quick search to find that there are several GCers who are AIs.

Even without the AI forum, which I never read until all bickering started, I could deduct that ASA, ZTA, GPhiB, APhi, and ADPi ALL have some sort of AI as their are AI members from those sororities on this board. I would also think that GPhiB would be the easiest one to AI into because there are several members of GPhiB who are AIs. This may not be true, but this is what I would gather if I knew nothing a/b any of the sororities.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by Adelphean

I would also think that GPhiB would be the easiest one to AI into because there are several members of GPhiB who are AIs.

This is exactly what most of us are trying to avoid. Besides the AI forum, that spells it out, you'd have to do a lot of GC research to figure out which sororities have AIs and how many. Plus, most of the women who are AIs (with a few exceptions) are in favor of removing the subforum, because it's doing more harm then good. Hell, I know for a fact that there are AIs on this board who don't want to reveal they are AIs because they don't want to be crucified, and that's sad.

[adpiucf]

We're not anti-AI. We just don't want to discuss the process or chronicle the journey of an AI on this forum! Once someone is initiated, she is our sister and we're glad.

[greekalum]

Originally Posted by Adelphean

My question is, what does it matter if there is a sub forum or not?

Anyone can come on this site and do a quick search to find that there are several GCers who are AIs.

Even without the AI forum, which I never read until all bickering started, I could deduct that ASA, ZTA, GPhiB, APhi, and ADPi ALL have some sort of AI as their are AI members from those sororities on this board. I would also think that GPhiB would be the easiest one to AI into because there are several members of GPhiB who are AIs. This may not be true, but this is what I would gather if I knew nothing a/b any of the sororities.

Without an AI subforum, someone who knows nothing about AI would not have a launching off place to shop for the easy sorority to join as an AI- which I don't think ANY sorority wants. If AI discussions were restricted to the specific organizations' subforums, most random AI-seekers would have to start with organizations they have prior knowledge of-- and there, if they post that "Hey, I know nothing about XYZ but I see that you have alumni initiates, how do I become one?" that organization's members can respond as they feel appropriate based on how their organization runs things.

[PinkandGreenJ]

I like that idea...and then when it comes to the individual sub-forum, we can shut it down quickly in the fashion of the Divine 9.

Really truly, their way is the best way...in my humble opinion...if a question is asked, say that it shouldn't be and then it gets shut down without hurt feelings, etc. If that person is meant to be a sister/brother, it will happen for them in the manner most people on this forum would like- discretly and because of some tie to that organ.