Alabama Sorority Costs...Can anyone help?

[Titchou]

You have no idea what all I - and my sisters - did to try and save the chapter. When you talk about someone's chapter of initiation, you are getting VERY personal. What did YOU do to help? The hippie/anti Viet Nam movements of the 60's and 70's did Greeks in general no favors.

Sorry if I am a pragmatist. I went to Catholic schools thru high school and was mostly raised by my father so I look at things from a very practical point of view. My first car was my grandmother's 7 year old Chevy when she finally got a new car. A year later, I wanted a 65 GTO and had to have my father co-sign for me as I was 20 a couldn't legally sign a loan on my own. He told me he would have the bank write a new one when I turned 21. I agreed to those terms. He took me to lunch on my 21st birthday and we went by the bank for me to sign a loan on my own. Though my parents always paid for my schooling- private school, college, sorority - I worked summers during high school and got a part time job in college when I realized my allowance would not go as far as I wanted. I knew - without even asking- that my father wouldn't increase my allowance - even though he could afford to. That's how I was raised. With all I ever needed but knowing that it was up to me to find a way to get the extras. Just because my parents could afford something was not reason enough for me to have it. All I was suggesting was that the mother find a way...not a cut of an arm. For crying out loud. Get a grip, folks.

[Hartofsec]

Originally Posted by Titchou

You have no idea what all I - and my sisters - did to try and save the chapter. When you talk about someone's chapter of initiation, you are getting VERY personal. What did YOU do to help? The hippie/anti Viet Nam movements of the 60's and 70's did Greeks in general no favors.

No, I don't know what all you did to try to save your chapter.

Which is why I didn't waggle a judgmental finger. I'm sure this was heartbreaking for the actives and the alums.

But whatever those hippies did to damage the greek system, it didn't have much of an effect at the UofA. Greek life was flourishing during the 70's (I can certainly speak for the late 70's anyway), with nearly as many sororities as there are today.