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Yep, it ain't easy being the only one. People make TONS of assumptions about us. Examples:
- they assume we're being colonized...or waiting to colonize...or desperately want to be colonized by an NPC org. Nope, not in any forseeable future.
- they assume we just started. Nope, TD is 85 years old. Some of the other groups on my all-local campus are closer to 100.
- the "why didn't you join a national?"...umm...didn't have any at our school, and I wanted to join Tau Delta.
- that we're all a bunch of rule breakers, hazers, etc. That we aren't the classy pearls and pumps kind. While the pearls and pumps thing doesn't fly at OC, the sorority members at our campus are every bit as womanly, talented, and beautiful as PNMs anywhere else in the country.
- that we have no rules, no bylaws, no oversight. Again, we have an alumni council, our panhellenic council, greek life advisor, etc etc etc. We have bylaws for our chapter and for the panhel council. Its not like we're running our own corporation, we've got to play by the university rules or we get canned, because the school holds our charter, and they have the power to make us disappear as it were.
But at the same time, my experience is very different from most local girls- we're an all local campus, so we only get the 3rd degree from outsiders. I love my sisters, and I love the sheer variety of chapters and girls that join sororities at OC because it is maybe more accessable...cheaper dues, smaller houses, very laid back rush, deferred rush (very very deffered!). The ties of the groups to the university make each one quirky, gives them an entwined history. I'll be very sad if the campus ever goes national, not because NPC's aren't great, but because we'd have lost a big part of the Otterbein tradition.
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