Conduct Becoming of A Sorority Girl

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally Posted by fantASTic

It can all be boiled down to this:

Never do anything, in letters or out, that would give a GDI a bad impression of either your sorority or of Greek Life in general.

Like use the term GDI?

That set aside, I have huge issues with this statement. I was active at a small, very conservative campus, where I served as the president of College Dems and engaged in some pro-choice activism. I am sure that gave many people on campus a bad impression of my sorority. Are you implying I shouldn't have done it?

[SWTXBelle]

LOL, Banditone.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by GeekyPenguin

Like use the term GDI?

That set aside, I have huge issues with this statement. I was active at a small, very conservative campus, where I served as the president of College Dems and engaged in some pro-choice activism. I am sure that gave many people on campus a bad impression of my sorority. Are you implying I shouldn't have done it?

With regards to the GDI, while in some areas it's seen as a negative, it's not always. Some "GDIs" use the term because they're not Greek but hang out among Greeks, etc. My mom has paddles.... er... "wall plaques" from guys who were GDIs and put Gamma Delta Iota on the paddle.

[blackngoldengrl]

Originally Posted by GeekyPenguin

Like use the term GDI?

That set aside, I have huge issues with this statement. I was active at a small, very conservative campus, where I served as the president of College Dems and engaged in some pro-choice activism. I am sure that gave many people on campus a bad impression of my sorority. Are you implying I shouldn't have done it?

Depending on where you went to school, sure. And even then there are always people who are anti-choice or are not Democrats. If anything I think the pro-choice activism would spark more bad impressions than being a Democrat.

And what about being openly homosexual or bisexual within a fraternity/sorority? I'm sure that would cause controversy at some campuses. Some people think that shows a lack of morals.

[James]

Thats an interesting point. If your group has a policy of not discriminating by sexual preference, then it would be hard to expell a homosexual member that was sexually promiscious . . .

Originally Posted by blackngoldengrl

Depending on where you went to school, sure. And even then there are always people who are anti-choice or are not Democrats. If anything I think the pro-choice activism would spark more bad impressions than being a Democrat.

And what about being openly homosexual or bisexual within a fraternity/sorority? I'm sure that would cause controversy at some campuses. Some people think that shows a lack of morals.

[BabyPiNK_FL]

Originally Posted by James

Thats an interesting point. If your group has a policy of not discriminating by sexual preference, then it would be hard to expell a homosexual member that was sexually promiscious . . .

If you were trying to get rid of him/her for blatant and public promiscuity, then what would sexual orientation have to do with it? As long as the very public proof was undeniable, then what would be the problem? Certainly not their sexual orientation.

[susan314]

Originally Posted by BabyPiNK_FL

If you were trying to get rid of him/her for blatant and public promiscuity, then what would sexual orientation have to do with it? As long as the very public proof was undeniable, then what would be the problem? Certainly not their sexual orientation.

My thought was that as long as both heterosexual and homosexual members were held to the same standards, then it shouldn't be a problem. If heterosexual members were blatantly promiscuous and didn't get disciplined, then a homosexual member who did might have cause to claim bias/a double standard. But if issues of promiscuity were dealt with consistently in the chapter, then I wouldn't anticipate any sort of problem.

(And let's hope that one individual chapter didn't have too many issues of blatant promiscuity to deal with in any given school year, otherwise that could certainly be the sign of a larger issue...)

[fantASTic]

Originally Posted by GeekyPenguin

Like use the term GDI?

That set aside, I have huge issues with this statement. I was active at a small, very conservative campus, where I served as the president of College Dems and engaged in some pro-choice activism. I am sure that gave many people on campus a bad impression of my sorority. Are you implying I shouldn't have done it?

GDI is not an offensive term.

As for the second part, no. You should be allowed to do whatever you felt was right. However, I would most certainly have refrained from wearing letters at any such event, dicussing things like that in letters when I KNEW it was going to turn into a heated argument, and not mentioning the sorority while engaging in such activities.

[Leslie Anne]

Originally Posted by fantASTic

GDI is not an offensive term.

Yes, it most certainly is!

[macallan25]

Who cares?

[Leslie Anne]

Originally Posted by macallan25

Who cares?

Apparently that would be fantASTic, Geeky Penguin, and myself. Perhaps some others as well.

We don't need your stamp of approval on what's discussed.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by Leslie Anne

Apparently that would be fantASTic, Geeky Penguin, and myself. Perhaps some others as well.

We don't need your stamp of approval on what's discussed.

Again, to some people, maybe, but others use it to describe themselves. It depends on the campus culture.

[Leslie Anne]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Again, to some people, maybe, but others use it to describe themselves. It depends on the campus culture.

You know, I've heard that before but for the life of me I can't understand how calling anyone a "God Damned anything" couldn't be considered offensive.

Maybe some people describe themselves that way but that doesn't mean that it's okay for Greeks to do it. No one in my chapter used the term. It was considered a lowly form of communicating. The word "independent" works just fine.