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Old 08-24-2011, 04:18 PM
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Is it "air your disgruntlement with specific OU chapters" week in their paper?

http://oudaily.com/news/2011/aug/23/...p-self-apprec/

I wonder what the other side to the story is on this one- like why she didn't actually initiate at her first school?
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Old 08-24-2011, 06:50 PM
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Is it "air your disgruntlement with specific OU chapters" week in their paper?

http://oudaily.com/news/2011/aug/23/...p-self-apprec/

I wonder what the other side to the story is on this one- like why she didn't actually initiate at her first school?
Many years ago, someone published an editorial like this in the Daily Illini. The Greeks subsequently put the DI out of business, forcing the University to step in and fund it. The OU Daily's editors would be wise to watch it.
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Old 08-24-2011, 07:43 PM
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Many years ago, someone published an editorial like this in the Daily Illini. The Greeks subsequently put the DI out of business, forcing the University to step in and fund it. The OU Daily's editors would be wise to watch it.
SMH. I'm so sure someone would have made that comment to her during recruitment. Whatevs. Yes, our NSU and OU chapters are very different. I'm sorry she didn't find a place at the AOII chapter at OU. If she had gotten initiated at NSU, she could have just transferred. Odd that they didn't initiate her.
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Old 08-24-2011, 07:58 PM
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SMH. I'm so sure someone would have made that comment to her during recruitment. Whatevs. Yes, our NSU and OU chapters are very different. I'm sorry she didn't find a place at the AOII chapter at OU. If she had gotten initiated at NSU, she could have just transferred. Odd that they didn't initiate her.

agreed! we definitely don't have the whole story on this one! i also find it fascinating that all the chapter but AOII dropped her after the first round, yet she focuses on AOII.

and you get suggestions for appropriate attire and choose to wear combat boots? puh-lease!
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Old 08-24-2011, 08:37 PM
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agreed! we definitely don't have the whole story on this one! i also find it fascinating that all the chapter but AOII dropped her after the first round, yet she focuses on AOII.

and you get suggestions for appropriate attire and choose to wear combat boots? puh-lease!
This whole thing (both the other article and this one) just makes me very sad for the OU Greek Community.
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Old 08-24-2011, 08:37 PM
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If she had gotten initiated at NSU, she could have just transferred. Odd that they didn't initiate her.
Yea, I call bull on this article. She participated in formal recruitment in the fall, pledged AOPi, but by the fall of next year, had still not initiated? We know it wasn't a grade issue...hmmmm. Somethin' ain't right here, and it may be the author.

Of course, she IS right about one thing... everyone in sororities in the large Oklahoma schools is blonde and tan. No brunettes allowed. That's why I dyed my own hair, so I could pledge at OSU. We did allow light brown at Ok State, because we were a landgrant school, but that was as far as we were willing to bend.
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Old 08-24-2011, 11:54 PM
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SMH. I'm so sure someone would have made that comment to her during recruitment. Whatevs. Yes, our NSU and OU chapters are very different. I'm sorry she didn't find a place at the AOII chapter at OU. If she had gotten initiated at NSU, she could have just transferred. Odd that they didn't initiate her.
It sounds like they didn't initiate her because they knew she was transferring and didn't want her to be stuck at a chapter she may have not liked or wanted to affiliate into, and spend the rest of her college years unhappy. Which is an absolutely exceptionally nice and mature thing for them to do. I mean - they lost a person from their year's quota. They could have just said "hey, go ahead and initiate!" and what happened after she transferred was her problem. I know that your policy might be that you *can* transfer directly into the chapter, but I'm guessing they've had enough interaction with the OU chapter to know some of them wouldn't have fit in well there, either.

I would hope any sorority chapter who had a NM who realized she was in that position (imminent transfer) would give her the same option and consideration.
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Old 08-25-2011, 08:52 AM
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It sounds like they didn't initiate her because they knew she was transferring and didn't want her to be stuck at a chapter she may have not liked or wanted to affiliate into, and spend the rest of her college years unhappy. Which is an absolutely exceptionally nice and mature thing for them to do. I mean - they lost a person from their year's quota. They could have just said "hey, go ahead and initiate!" and what happened after she transferred was her problem. I know that your policy might be that you *can* transfer directly into the chapter, but I'm guessing they've had enough interaction with the OU chapter to know some of them wouldn't have fit in well there, either.

I would hope any sorority chapter who had a NM who realized she was in that position (imminent transfer) would give her the same option and consideration.
Still, the timing is weird...If it's fall recruitment and a six-week NM period, would you know you were transferring in October of the previous year?
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