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07-25-2007, 10:50 PM
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I know you said it was fiction, so it doesn't HAVE to be true to life. But in reality, chapters cut legacies all the time. Simply being a legacy isn't going to be feasible enough. I like the idea of someone else with the same name, but if you really want to go the legacy route, make it something more compelling - like a descendant of a founder or something.
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07-25-2007, 10:53 PM
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I know you said it was fiction, so it doesn't HAVE to be true to life. But in reality, chapters cut legacies all the time. Simply being a legacy isn't going to be feasible enough. I like the idea of someone else with the same name, but if you really want to go the legacy route, make it something more compelling - like a descendant of a founder or something.
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yeah...a founder's descendant. I don't really know who checks our legacies out (I'm assuming our membership director or advisor -- I know someone does...) but I just feel that if someone came through saying they were one of our founder's great(times a bajillion) grandaughter...who would question that? i mean, obviously our nationals would be on our ass every five seconds making sure we gave this girl sweet treatment...so it probably would be questioned...but still, it'd make a much better story 
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07-25-2007, 11:00 PM
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So maybe a founder's great-granddaughter has the same name as your main character but doesn't want to rush because she's too emo for Greek Life, but encourages your main character to rush knowing the misrepresentation will help her? It practically writes itself.
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07-25-2007, 11:30 PM
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I was thinking the same thing--make her the descendant of a legacy and people may be SO excited, they don't even think about whether its true.
My maiden name is Locke....I always wondered if I am related to Theta founder Betty Locke Hamilton, making me a Theta legacy. (I am pretty sure I am not!) But would anyone question?? (I hope so!)
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07-26-2007, 08:40 AM
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My maiden name is Locke....I always wondered if I am related to Theta founder Betty Locke Hamilton, making me a Theta legacy. (I am pretty sure I am not!) But would anyone question?? (I hope so!)
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Haha- even if you weren't a descendant of Bettie Locke, I would be so excited that you had the same name (during recruitment) that I would be practically star struck anyway.
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07-26-2007, 08:47 AM
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OT - Have you seen the "Betty Locke is my homegirl" shirt???LOL
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07-26-2007, 09:40 AM
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OT - Have you seen the "Betty Locke is my homegirl" shirt???LOL
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slight hi-jack: in the Random Spurts thread on DST ave, we were JUST talking about "[insert founder's name] is my homeboy/girl" shirts.
(we were referring to this shirt, made for Nupes.)
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07-26-2007, 10:53 AM
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I have to admit that I have wondered about my daughters, who are Chi Omega and Pi Beta Phi legacies from their deceased grandmothers. I can easily provide the names and chapter information, but do I have to send a birth certificate and marriage licenses? Is it like joining the DAR???  |
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The Chi Omega, if she were alive today, would be 97! That is pretty amazing - it's what you get when you marry an older man who was a "whoopsie!" when his mother was 43! She was at Rhodes College back when it was Southwest(ern? I can't remember).
Actually, the Chi Omega daughter of my mother-in-law's (younger) Chi Omega buddy from the 70s onward is still in touch with us . . .so now that I think about it, that one is covered!
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Kappa Beta Chapter of Chi Omega is at Rhodes College (formerly Southwestern). A wonderful chapter.
Just FYI, the official Chi Omega legacy policy does not include grandmothers.
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07-26-2007, 11:00 AM
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No grandmother Chi-Os
REALLY? That's amazing to me. Well, one problem solved!
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07-31-2007, 12:46 PM
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OT - Have you seen the "Betty Locke is my homegirl" shirt???LOL
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slight hi-jack: in the Random Spurts thread on DST ave, we were JUST talking about "[insert founder's name] is my homeboy/girl" shirts.
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so random... i just got back from Tau Beta Sigma convention, and they were selling "Wava is my homegirl" posters. hilarious! 
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07-26-2007, 11:13 AM
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Just FYI, the official Chi Omega legacy policy does not include grandmothers.
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Is this a recent policy change or has it always been this way? If that's TMI to give, just say so - it made me think of a thread I wanted to start and I don't want to hijack this one.
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07-26-2007, 11:15 AM
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Is this a recent policy change or has it always been this way? If that's TMI to give, just say so - it made me think of a thread I wanted to start and I don't want to hijack this one.
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No, it's always been this way and I have stated it before on numerous threads.
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08-01-2007, 12:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Heather17
I was thinking the same thing--make her the descendant of a legacy and people may be SO excited, they don't even think about whether its true.
My maiden name is Locke....I always wondered if I am related to Theta founder Betty Locke Hamilton, making me a Theta legacy. (I am pretty sure I am not!) But would anyone question?? (I hope so!)
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I think that this would def. be a realistic idea for a book. I could imagine if there was a girl on campus who had a founders last name we probably would have been all over that encouraging her to join...it be cute in the book if the girl did not want to join and the sorority was persuing her to join and the girl was doing everything to get away from them and then in the end of course she loves the sorority.
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07-26-2007, 12:10 AM
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So maybe a founder's great-granddaughter has the same name as your main character but doesn't want to rush because she's too emo for Greek Life, but encourages your main character to rush knowing the misrepresentation will help her? It practically writes itself.
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I think that is a good story line idea, but just like the rest of the posts in this thread, in real life this girl would eventually get caught!
I was going to respond to this comment in general, but since it deals with my GLO....
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My maiden name is Locke....I always wondered if I am related to Theta founder Betty Locke Hamilton, making me a Theta legacy. (I am pretty sure I am not!) But would anyone question?? (I hope so!)
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I think it would be cool if a girl would be related to a founder of a GLO in real life, but again, I would think and hope that this would be checked out. I don't think anybody with the last name of a founder of any of the NPC sororities could just walk in to recruitment and say, "Hey I am related to so and so, the founder of ABC". At least I hope not!
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07-26-2007, 01:46 AM
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I think that is a good story line idea, but just like the rest of the posts in this thread, in real life this girl would eventually get caught!
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And I'm sure in the book she would/will eventually get caught, thus creating a plot.
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