Why is Ritual secret?

[33girl]

Originally Posted by infalliblelove

Whenever a sister chooses to disaffiliate or needs to be disaffiliated, it makes me feel like a complete stranger knows our organization's ritual. If the sister could not be loyal to us when she was active, what guarantees that she will not disclose our ritual to others?

Geez, that's kinda harsh.

Sometimes people have to disaffiliate for reasons (money, family issues) that have nothing to do with loyalty.

[infalliblelove]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Geez, that's kinda harsh.

Sometimes people have to disaffiliate for reasons (money, family issues) that have nothing to do with loyalty.

Family issues, academics, money and other reasons beyond a person's control are completely understandable. I love sorority, but it's obviously not the number one priority in life.

However, there are people who need to disaffiliate because they misrepresent our ideals. I'm talking about those girls that you can expect to see completely trashed at a party every Friday night, doing the walk of shame Saturday morning, but won't bother to show up for a philanthropy. Of course, it is expected as we only get a week to decide who will be our new sisters. It just sucks when you find out that the chapter was misled during recruitment, and those girls have to be cut later on after being initiated.

[33girl]

This sounds like you are having issues with some of the women in your chapter. Have they gone before standards board? Does the rest of the chapter share your view?

And that's what pledgeship is for, training for sisterhood. If you have pledges that aren't living up to what the chapter wants, the time to talk to them about it is before initiation, not after.

(Sorry everyone for the hijack)