Schools with all locals orgs that went national

[alum]

Wake Forest had their local sororities go national in the mid 90s. According to my Demon Deacon alumna friend who was a sister during the 70s of one of the locals, the NPC groups and WF admin promised that the chapters could keep local traditions. According to her, the brouhaha with the WF Chi O chapter in the 2004 timeframe and the Pi Phi chapter last spring is all related to the fact that NPC and WF admin are not allowing the chapters to maintain local traditions.

Admittedly she graduated 3 decades ago so her memory may be hazy on this? And of course if traditions of Fideles and Strings (the now-Chi O and Pi Phi) were debasing to pledges, of course that should NOT be carried over to a now-national chapter.

[AZ-AlphaXi]

And don't forget Shorter in Rome, GA. They had locals. One local went with Phi Mu. One local stayed local. And Zeta colonized from scratch. I think that's right .. Carnation can give you the details.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by alum

Wake Forest had their local sororities go national in the mid 90s. According to my Demon Deacon alumna friend who was a sister during the 70s of one of the locals, the NPC groups and WF admin promised that the chapters could keep local traditions. According to her, the brouhaha with the WF Chi O chapter in the 2004 timeframe and the Pi Phi chapter last spring is all related to the fact that NPC and WF admin are not allowing the chapters to maintain local traditions.

In addition to anything that could ever be construed even a tiny bit as hazing (and yes, I think our HQ's go overboard on this), sometimes locals have traditions like big brothers that HQ's don't like, because they feel it can jeopardize same-sex status. A lot of HQ's also have issues with collegians and alumnae drinking together.

Of course, the reasonable response is to just keep quiet about these things, but I can imagine more than one scenario where seemingly harmless "local traditions" can't officially be allowed to continue.