Well, first off, this rule goes back a LOOOONG way.
Anyways - the way it has been explained to me is that a member's priority in college should be her education and her fraternity. The obligation (and time commitment) to a marriage could potentially take away from both an academic schedule and fraternity commitments.
Look at it this way - 95+% of all members pledge as freshman. How many of these incoming freshman are married? I'd say less than 1/10 of 1%. It just makes sense that you'd want your new members to be committed to their educations and their new fraternity.
Every woman that I've known that got married while in school AND tried to stay active in her GLO, gave up her sorority commitment within the first 6 months. A couple of them actually gave up school right away to have kids - one was my pledge sister that was 4.0 honors pre-med student. She now has 3 kids, may get divorced and hasn't worked in years. It's a shame.
There is a national sorority for married women, I think it's calle Mu Rho Sigma (MRS - I kid you not).
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Fraternally,
Barbara
If you have to go around telling everyone you're in charge you're not
much of a leader.
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