lil sis rush

[33girl]

Originally Posted by valmypal

i'm a grad student at my university (not the same one as my undergrad) and they do this here. It makes me so mad! Both the fraternities and sororities have bigs of the opposite sex. i think not only does it cause cross-hazing, but i've heard it breeds more rape/sexual abuse too. they know they can't do this from their nationals. they get to wear their "bigs" letters on their windbreakers, but when national consultants come, its "everybody hide your jackets!". if you can't tell your nationals about something you're doing, then wouldn't it click that what you're doing is wrong??? the greek life advisor knows about this and just lets it happen anyways.

One of my good friends went where you are. She explained the whole thing to me and I just found it SO bizarre. Especially since it seemed like she hung out with guys from a different fraternity more than those from her "brother's" fraternity. Unless the fraternity has a really truly little sister program I just don't see the point.

[LatinaAlumna]

^It can be creepy. From my observations as an undergrad (and now as an administrator), it appears that some fraternities offer "lil sis" status to primarily freshman women who really don't know the purpose of greek life yet (or else they probably would have joined a sorority).

When I was an undergrad, one fraternity that had many Latino members (but was not a LGLO) tried to get freshmen women to join their "lil sis" program by telling them that it was REQUIRED if they wanted to have a chance at joining MY sorority!