Visiting Chapters Thread

[Elephant Walk]

Originally Posted by violetpretty

Unbelievable. EW, your fraternity is way bigger than your old-money-obsessed farce of brotherhood.

Wrong. Absolutely wrong. My fraternity is my chapter. Just because they have participated in the same ritual I have and worn similar dress during closed meetings does not instantly make them my brother. That makes them a member of a large association of men. Participating in pledgeship and often five to six years of living together, and everything that we've experienced together make them friends.

You know absolutely nothing about my "brotherhood". To make some sort of accusation is the farce. You accuse my brotherhood regarding people I have never known before.

I have no doubt that there are Sigma Kappas and Sigma Kappa chapters who are very different from my chapter and me, but I would treat every one of my sisters that I am lucky enough to meet with the utmost respect.

That's fine. I am always respectful to any other member of the association I meet until they give me a reason not to.

ETA: Now I see what kind of "different" you are referring to. If you are so different, why do they want to hang out with your chapter?

I doubt he knows why. Some just want to party. Some like seeing other houses and visiting other fraternities. Most are annoying.

[violetpretty]

Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

Wrong. Absolutely wrong. My fraternity is my chapter. Just because they have participated in the same ritual I have and worn similar dress during closed meetings does not instantly make them my brother. That makes them a member of a large association of men. Participating in pledgeship and often five to six years of living together, and everything that we've experienced together make them friends.

You know absolutely nothing about my "brotherhood". To make some sort of accusation is the farce. You accuse my brotherhood regarding people I have never known before.


That's fine. I am always respectful to any other member of the association I meet until they give me a reason not to.

I rest my case.

[KSUViolet06]

My chapter never minded having visitors from other chapters, but they were never allowed to stay over at the chapter house--unless they were guests of a sister and cleared by our Housing Corp in advance. So you couldn't just show up and be like "Hi, were from XY chapter and we wanna party here this weekend! Is it cool if we crash?"

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by violetpretty

I rest my case.

I'm searching for this "case" you speak of. So far all I've seen you do is trash a man's sense of brotherhood.

[catiebug]

I have to ask - since you seem to feel this way about those who are members of your fraternity but not in your chapter, do you feel the same way toward your founders?

Your founders did not participate in your pledgeship. Your founders did not live with you for five or six years.

What does that make them?

Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

Wrong. Absolutely wrong. My fraternity is my chapter. Just because they have participated in the same ritual I have and worn similar dress during closed meetings does not instantly make them my brother. That makes them a member of a large association of men. Participating in pledgeship and often five to six years of living together, and everything that we've experienced together make them friends.

You know absolutely nothing about my "brotherhood". To make some sort of accusation is the farce. You accuse my brotherhood regarding people I have never known before.

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by catiebug

I have to ask - since you seem to feel this way about those who are members of your fraternity but not in your chapter, do you feel the same way toward your founders?

Your founders did not participate in your pledgeship. Your founders did not live with you for five or six years.

What does that make them?

My founders died around 140 years ago too. Not especially relevant.

I view them as just that, founders of one of the top fraternal organizations in the country. Their ideas, loyalty, admiration, and devotion to creating an organization for us to be a part of will always be recognized and deeply respected by me. Do I view them as the same light as my best friends in my chapter........no. How is that even possible?

[Buttonz]

I hold my sisters at a different level then I hold non-sisters...but I hold my chapter sisters at a different level above that, does that make sense?

I hope that the weekend went well, it does seem odd that they asked to come during Easter weekend though.