Is Sarah Palin a sorority member?

[irishpipes]

Originally Posted by cutie_cat_4ever

Just curious. If she isn't a sorority member, do you think any sorority will reach out to her and invite her to be an alumnae member like what AKA did to Michelle Obama?

I doubt my NPC would. We don't do honorary AI. If a woman is selected for alumna initiation, she would be expected to actively participate in the fraternity, and I don't think Governor Palin would have time for that.

Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel

Don't we think if she was our sister our Inter/National Organizations would have already listed her as an accomplished member when she was elected as the governor of Alaska?

Exactly. Being Governor of an entire state is seems like it'd be an automatic 'in' to the Accomplished Alums section of the sorority website.

Originally Posted by cutie_cat_4ever

Just curious. If she isn't a sorority member, do you think any sorority will reach out to her and invite her to be an alumnae member like what AKA did to Michelle Obama?

I hope to God mine doesn't.

Dunno, there's just so much controversy surrounding Sarah Palin, and I don't know what sorority in their right mind would want to invite her for membership. AGD does not have honorary memberships, either.

[irishpipes]

Originally Posted by OTW

Dunno, there's just so much controversy surrounding Sarah Palin, and I don't know what sorority in their right mind would want to invite her for membership. AGD does not have honorary memberships, either.

I disagree about the controversy part but I doubt an NPC would invite a high-profile politician because their existing membership would of course include women of differing political views. I doubt they would want to alienate half of their existing membership. You know, the ones that are actually doing the work for the Fraternity.

[AlwaysSAI]

Last week my step-dad and I discussed the election and who we were planning on voting for. At that point, neither of us had decided which candidate was the lesser evils.

I talk to him this morning and he's voting for McCain because he says Sarah Palin is hottttt.

(I'm sure he was joking of course )

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by OTW

Exactly. Being Governor of an entire state is seems like it'd be an automatic 'in' to the Accomplished Alums section of the sorority website.



I hope to God mine doesn't.

Dunno, there's just so much controversy surrounding Sarah Palin, and I don't know what sorority in their right mind would want to invite her for membership. AGD does not have honorary memberships, either.

Really, you see her as being enormously controversial? She doesn't seem that way to me, especially had she not been picked up as VP.

I don't see anyone offering her AI just because it would seem cheap. Well, not cheap exactly, but a little pathetic to offer membership just because a person with no connection to your group was nominated as a VP candidate. It'd be something else if she met the same requirements groups are generally looking for in AIs.

[irishpipes]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

I don't see anyone offering her AI just because it would seem cheap. Well, not cheap exactly, but a little pathetic to offer membership just because a person with no connection to your group was nominated as a VP candidate. It'd be something else if she met the same requirements groups are generally looking for in AIs.

I agree totally, plus it would seem to send a message that being famous somehow makes someone more attractive for membersip than a regular person, and the regular people are the ones who support the GLO at the grass roots level. To me it would seem like a slight to them. The cool part of having notable members is that they chose you and you them before anyone knew they were going to be notable. That is lost if you AI famous people, in my opinion.

[tri deezy]

she's definitely not a tri delta. i checked maiden name and married name too

[breathesgelatin]

Originally Posted by irishpipes

I agree totally, plus it would seem to send a message that being famous somehow makes someone more attractive for membersip than a regular person, and the regular people are the ones who support the GLO at the grass roots level. To me it would seem like a slight to them. The cool part of having notable members is that they chose you and you them before anyone knew they were going to be notable. That is lost if you AI famous people, in my opinion.

Just being devil's advocate, but Pi Phi AIed Barbara Bush (the elder, the twin Barbara is a Theta from Yale). And that was post-First Ladydom.

What I saw written about it, suggested that Mrs. Bush wanted to join Pi Phi because she felt an affinity for it and many of her closest friends were Pi Phis. So who knows who approached whom?

Are there any other first lady AIs?

[irishpipes]

Originally Posted by breathesgelatin

Just being devil's advocate, but Pi Phi AIed Barbara Bush (the elder, the twin Barbara is a Theta from Yale). And that was post-First Ladydom.

What I saw written about it, suggested that Mrs. Bush wanted to join Pi Phi because she felt an affinity for it and many of her closest friends were Pi Phis. So who knows who approached whom?

Are there any other first lady AIs?

That sounds like Pi Phi does a sort of honorary AI, and my group just doesn't do that. (I say honorary in the sense that I doubt Barbara is attending local AC meetings or advising a chapter.) I think she was also popular across party lines since she wasn't a politician at all and was just a nice, unthreatening cutie.

[SWTXBelle]

Barbara Bush had literacy as her "cause" - so the Pi Phi connection makes sense. She was very active and vocal in the philanthropy that Pi Phi works for, so I think it was a win/win for both. Pi Phis correct me if I'm wrong (I know I read about it in my former mother-in-law's Arrow, but I don't remember distinctly) but I do not believe it was an "honorary" - I think she was an AI like any other AI, in that she was seen as someone who met membership criteria and could contribute to the group.

If Sarah Palin had belonged to a local chapter that went national (although come to think of it, LBJ never was initiated into Pike, which is what the Black Stars became, but I digress) or was heavily involved in a philanthropy of an NPC, then I think AI might be an option. With what we know now, I'd say it's not likely.

[1Hand1Heart]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

Really, you see her as being enormously controversial? She doesn't seem that way to me, especially had she not been picked up as VP.

I don't see anyone offering her AI just because it would seem cheap. Well, not cheap exactly, but a little pathetic to offer membership just because a person with no connection to your group was nominated as a VP candidate. It'd be something else if she met the same requirements groups are generally looking for in AIs.

Didn't Florence Henderson AI for DZ? I thought she did. I always wondered what made certain stars choose to AI once they were famous. Did Florence have a prior connection with DZ initially? Maybe a DZ can answer that...

[KATwoman]

It's more likely she's not greek since she started at Hawaii Pacific and transfered to North Idaho College before going to University of Idaho and those two don't appear to have greek life (North Idaho is a community college).

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by 1Hand1Heart

Didn't Florence Henderson AI for DZ? I thought she did. I always wondered what made certain stars choose to AI once they were famous. Did Florence have a prior connection with DZ initially? Maybe a DZ can answer that...

I'm feeling bad because it seems like I'm attacking groups who might have AIed famous people. I've really got no problem with that as long as the AI was AIed for reasons other than simply fame. Service in the same field, like Barbara Bush, sounds great as would any famous person who happened to have personal connections to a certain chapter or group.