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Old 10-22-2007, 12:34 PM
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Since you know "this", then you should also know the problems we had in getting recognized, too. Oh and his "friends" were not disaffected nor disgruntled. After all they were the only collegiate members of the sorority. So how can they be disaffected from or disgruntled with themselves? Could it have just been that two of your four were merely supporting their girlfriends' visions of the future?

Please don't make it sound as if the Omegas were knights in shining armour, who after going through great turmoil to get recognized came to the defense of ladies in distress. Trust, those 22 didn't need egging on from anyone. And as a result of what they did and what the alumnae AKAs did there became two highly impactful sororities (growing to four) serving our community.

And I am just speculating that maybe your hard time was because of how the administration was approached. Your were the one who brought up Bishop Love's penchant for verbally "wrecking."
I was merely paraphrasing Paula Giddings' assessment of what occurred, as I remember reading it, which is basically in concert with your assertion, if you read what is written instead of reading between the lines. I'm make no value judgement on what they did;the results speak for themselves. The purpose of historical reconstruction is not necessarily for validation or disproval but simply understanding. The version of the Omega founding I related is not the "official" one; but it represents an important perspective by a Founder (and not the only one by any means!) to understand fully why the movement arose and its basic values, historically speaking, which transcends the "PR" material you'll find on any organizational website--which I pasted also.

The fact is this: for whatever reason the Delta founders were not satisfied with what AKA represented at the time; and presumably the graduate AKA members had a different assessment of the situation--along with later AKA historians? That's what I meant. And you may be right about why the Omega founders encountered such resistance--but I'm not interested in speculation, just evidence, historical evidence. I'm not an attorney; I don't ask rhetorical questions!
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