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[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by deepimpact2

Why would you look at their strolls, probates, and step shows to get an idea about whether you want to join that organization?

To see if their public persona is something you want to be associated with.

Not in the sense of OMG THEY HAVE THE TIGHEST STEPS AND STROLLS EVER but more like ewwwww they pride themselves in looking like gangsters and hoochies.

[deepimpact2]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

To see if their public persona is something you want to be associated with.

Not in the sense of OMG THEY HAVE THE TIGHEST STEPS AND STROLLS EVER but more like ewwwww they pride themselves in looking like gangsters and hoochies.

Well that kind of thing really depends on the chapter. You may have some AKA's that are doing the most hoochiefied stroll you have ever seen at one school, but at another school they are ladylike in what they do. I think it should be more focused on their national platforms than something that can involve so much variety. Remember you are in this organization for life. Pick based on that...not on something fleeting.

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by deepimpact2

Well that kind of thing really depends on the chapter. You may have some AKA's that doing the most hoochiefied stroll you have ever seen at one school, but at another school they are ladylike in what they do. I think it should be more focused on their national platforms than something that can involve so much variety. Remember you are in this roganization for life. Pick based on that...not on something fleeting.

What's your affiliation?

I think it goes without saying that certain things depend on the chapter, which is why graduate and alumni intake is so ubiquitous in NPHC organizations. Why waste time applying for a chapter that you don't fit in with? Or worse, getting into that chapter and being associated as being a slut or a thug because that's the chapter's rep?

[deepimpact2]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

What's your affiliation?

I think it goes without saying that certain things depend on the chapter, which is why graduate and alumni intake is so ubiquitous in NPHC organizations. Why waste time applying for a chapter that you don't fit in with? Or worse, getting into that chapter and being associated as being a slut or a thug because that's the chapter's rep?

Even if that is the chapter's rep, if I truly have an interest in that organization I would have to find a way to make it work. I have frends who didn't like the chaPters on their campus, but because they truly loved what the organization stood for, they joined. In the process they helped to also change the rep of that chapter.

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by deepimpact2

Even if that is the chapter's rep, if I truly have an interest in that organization I would have to find a way to make it work. I have frends who didn't like the chaPters on their campus, but because they truly loved what the organization stood for, they joined. In the process they helped to also change the rep of that chapter.

And I think it's silly to join a chapter and try to change it. There is an entire period of formal and informal indoctrination which occurs after initiation that perpetuates a chapter's identity.

Most good people I know who pledged bad chapters are either silently complicit or adopted the characteristics of the chapter.

[deepimpact2]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

And I think it's silly to join a chapter and try to change it. There is an entire period of formal and informal indoctrination which occurs after initiation that perpetuates a chapter's identity.

Most good people I know who pledged bad chapters are either silently complicit or adopted the characteristics of the chapter.

I guess those people are pretty weak. No one I know who pledged "bad" chapters ended up being silently complicit or adopting the characteristics of that chapter. And no it's not "silly" to work at changing the rep of a chapter. And even if the rep doesn't get any better, if you carry yourself a certain way, people will realize that you aren't like that.

Sorry, but I just can't see basing a lifetime decision on ONE chapter's antics. I guess if it's that bad you should just wait and do Grad.