Little Sisters

[Firehouse]

(I think you did spell hooey correctly).

With respect, I do believe that what I wrote is true. It sounds as if on both our campuses, the majority of little sisters were also in sororites. Little Sisters also gave upperclassmen women a chance to enjoy the Greek experience when they couldn't join sororities. There was no conflict between the sorority and non-sorority women; they all had a great time together. It was avantageous for the sororities to have lots of women in the best fraternities' little sis groups, but there weren't any problems that I remember.

Yes, membership in the little sister groups didn't offer the life-long relationships that sororities offer, but a lot of those women made lifelong friends with the men. As far as feeling threatened, it existed thought I don't know that it was an overt feeling. Probably the top tier sororities never felt that way, but someone did. The little sis organizations were often huge, 100-plus, and I'm certain that some women who were sophomores-and-above elected to join and enjoy that experience instead of joining a middle-tier sorority. In my opinion, there was a good deal of concern among some houses, especially the ones who might struggle, about losing customers to a "discount" operation like little sisters.

Where there's plenty of numbers to go around, no one cares or pays attention. When rush numbers are tight, then anything that takes customers away gets noticed.