Who Has Removed Preferential Treatment for Legacies?

[PersistentDST]

Originally Posted by 33girl

By the time you join an NPHC group, you’ve spent at the very least moths and more often YEARS focused on that group alone. Obviously you’re going to be more loyal to it as a national entity.

But as far as “lifetime commitment”? If you’re only counting national involvement, maybe my chapter of initiation isn’t doing that hot. But if you’re talking about lifetime friendships, we’ve hit the ball out of the park.

I think that the lifelong friendships and sisterhood are absolutely invaluable and if that’s one thing you take from joining, there’s nothing wrong with that. That being said...

...our commitment isn’t as much about loyalty. We have members who are inactive after graduation or even after initiation in an alumnae chapter, that could be considered loyal. Those of us who truly believe in our lifetime commitment’s understand that there is work to be done. There are people that need to be registered to vote, there is social action initiatives that need support and there is community service that needs to be done. Our undergraduate chapters and graduate chapters have the same missions and still have the same type of activities, even from a social standpoint, which makes it a bit easier to transition.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by PersistentDST

Our undergraduate chapters and graduate chapters have the same missions and still have the same type of activities, even from a social standpoint, which makes it a bit easier to transition.

This is a HUGE thing to consider. Many NPC alumnae go from a jam packed calendar where every day had something sorority related (not to mention living with your sisters) to a monthly meeting, if that. This isn’t everyone’s experience but it varies to such a degree that trying to give women a clear and consistent picture of alumnae involvement is impossible.