Is Sarah Palin a sorority member?

[breathesgelatin]

Somehow I think that for oldu, it's less about the tragedy of these individuals not going Greek and thus missing out on leadership development (which, besides, was that even a major emphasis in GLOs in the 60s/70s when these people were in college), and more about the fact that these people aren't in the WASP "chummy" club of Greek Life.

And let's face it, some of these people went to schools where, even at a time of relative overall decline in Greek life (60s/70s), Greek life at those schools was not particularly popular then or now - only a small minority of students were Greek.

I'm specifically thinking of Barack Obama + Columbia, but he actually started out at Occidental for two years, and I'm not sure if there was Greek Life there then - according to irishpipes' thread, their only NPC is Theta and that was only founded in 2004. If the pattern holds....

[WarEagle07]

Originally Posted by breathesgelatin

Somehow I think that for oldu, it's less about the tragedy of these individuals not going Greek and thus missing out on leadership development (which, besides, was that even a major emphasis in GLOs in the 60s/70s when these people were in college), and more about the fact that these people aren't in the WASP "chummy" club of Greek Life.

And let's face it, some of these people went to schools where, even at a time of relative overall decline in Greek life (60s/70s), Greek life at those schools was not particularly popular then or now - only a small minority of students were Greek.

I'm specifically thinking of Barack Obama + Columbia, but he actually started out at Occidental for two years, and I'm not sure if there was Greek Life there then - according to irishpipes' thread, their only NPC is Theta and that was only founded in 2004. If the pattern holds....

Wait, if I am reading this post correctly then you are assuming that Sarah Palin went to college in the 60's/70's? She graduated college in '87. Perhaps I have misinterpreted this post...

[Leslie Anne]

Originally Posted by WarEagle07

Perhaps I have misinterpreted this post.

Yes, I believe you have.

Some clues:

Originally Posted by breathesgelatin

And let's face it, some of these people went to schools where, even at a time of relative overall decline in Greek life (60s/70s), Greek life at those schools was not particularly popular then or now - only a small minority of students were Greek.

I'm specifically thinking of Barack Obama + Columbia....

[Janerz222]

Perhaps OldU meant that he/she finds it disappointing for GLOs as a whole, not disappointing in that the candidates are less qualified for Pres/VP because they aren't Greek.

We've all heard/quoted the old stand-by claim that xx% of Congress-people/Presidents/VP's were/are Greek. "See, GLOs create some great leaders, and many great leaders choose to be in GLOs!"

My read of OldU's comment was that perhaps this is the beginning of the end of that claim...

[tld221]

Originally Posted by breathesgelatin

Somehow I think that for oldu, it's less about the tragedy of these individuals not going Greek and thus missing out on leadership development (which, besides, was that even a major emphasis in GLOs in the 60s/70s when these people were in college), and more about the fact that these people aren't in the WASP "chummy" club of Greek Life.

And let's face it, some of these people went to schools where, even at a time of relative overall decline in Greek life (60s/70s), Greek life at those schools was not particularly popular then or now - only a small minority of students were Greek.

I'm specifically thinking of Barack Obama + Columbia, but he actually started out at Occidental for two years, and I'm not sure if there was Greek Life there then - according to irishpipes' thread, their only NPC is Theta and that was only founded in 2004. If the pattern holds....

i can't imagine that the average Columbia student has Greek Life on their mind. honor society (PBK?) surely, but social GLO? esp if he transferred in as a junior from another college.

but im not gonna write the man's life story or anything.

ETA: then again, i doubt Obama was the "average" Columbia student.