My not-so-perfect rush story

[Low C Sharp]

she brought flowers and official "Texas ZTA" t-shirts for each of the new affiliates.

Did all of you make it?
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[UGAalum94]

First: excellent story. Thank you for sharing it. It was really interesting to me all the way around. I'm glad that you were willing to work hard to fit in.

In regard to all the alumnae chapters who didn't really reach out either, don't you know that those women probably also wondered why more people weren't involved when they found themselves with a big project. I haven't ever experienced it with alumnae groups, but I have with church groups or other organizations.

The CAP program is just a sub-group of students at a regular four year college, if I understand it correctly. So probably the majority of the students at those school are there for four years, so it's not really a junior college kind of campus in general.

I think that the groups themselves should just handle it by not taking more than a couple CAP girls a year. With those students, you know in advance they are leaving, so you can weigh whether you want to have them for a year or someone else for maybe four. (But even so, don't other non-CAP students transfer?)

Or the campus panhellenic could set up a separate CAP quota. There are ways to handle it, it seems to me, when you can identify in advance who is likely to transfer.

With everyone else, as long as all the groups see about the same number of girls leave each year, it can be reflected in having a lower campus total for all groups, right?

And, I totally understand how a girl could be in good financial and academic shape and still not be a good member. I'm completely fine with voting on affiliates; I just think that no votes should be exceptional and only for "good" reasons. If it's a national sisterhood; it's a national sisterhood. Since affiliates don't keep you from pledging someone else, we can afford to be generous with the sisterhood, it seems to me.

[LOVEinZTA]

Originally Posted by tld221

To me, that sounds like the equivalent of having a chapter at a community college/2-year school. Which, and only speaking for SGRho, we don't have for reasons along what you described above.

i would think that since CAP is a transitional kind of program that they wouldnt be allowed to have a greek life. It's a strain on each GLO because of the high turnover. and if the majority of students go to one of the CAP schools with the intention of "oh, i'll just transfer to UT anyway," then its WAY better to have students just wait until they transfer their sophomore year.

For CAP students, I see what you mean about how it seems like having a chapter at a community college, but UTA is a full 4 year university with plenty of students who do stay there all 4 years. They have several programs which are attractive to potential students and are located right in between Fort Worth and Dallas in a rather prime location so a lot of students from the DFW area who don't want to go far far away for school look at UTA. CAP is really just a designation given to students attending another univeristy for their freshman year.