Kappa Alpha Theta at Harvard Closing

[thetalady]

Originally Posted by naraht

And yet didn't do anything to really sever the history. Theta's Zeta Xi chapter became Theta Zeta Xi...

How do you "sever history"? History IS what it IS.

You cannot go back in time and change history. You can ignore history, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. You can wipe out the memory of historical events, but that doesn't change what occurred.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by thetalady

How do you "sever history"? History IS what it IS.

You cannot go back in time and change history. You can ignore history, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. You can wipe out the memory of historical events, but that doesn't change what occurred.

True, but some of the changes were a little bit *less* obvious than others.

I think I'm oversensitive here because I've worked with documenting fraternities and sororities in the Philippines and most of them are not only open about where their greek letters come from, they deliberately point it out (So for example, the large Fraternity/Sorority combination of Tau Gamma Phi and Tau Gamma Sigma stand for Triskelion Grand Fraternity and Triskelion Grand Sorority and their primary symbol is the Triskelion. (Think of a Swastika with only 3 arms)

[GreekOne]

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2...ches-new-club/

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by PGD-GRAD

So this leaves Alpha Phi, the last of the four sororities to charter and now—the last one left. It seems pointless to stay; but I guess you can have a Panhel with just one group. But when recruitment begins...and I can’t imagine many women will now be interested—will they have to bid EVERY WOMAN who goes through recruitment? It will be interesting to see.

Campuses that only have one NPC don't do a formal recruitment. They do informal recruitment only. Some campuses with 2 and 3 NPC chapters also do all informal recruitment. It's a different animal. They only take who they want. No quota, no chapter total. Usually they set goals for themselves.

Originally Posted by thetalady

They can call it whatever the hell they want. The plain truth is that Harvard drove the established Greek system out of Harvard, so that the students have no one to oversee or answer to other than Harvard.

I totally agree.

Originally Posted by GreekOne

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2...ches-new-club/

Every time I read another article about this, I want to be sick. This line really gets me:

KP will also have to appoint an official to liaise between the group and the College and will need to adopt required trainings around topics including sexual assault prevention.

So an organization that force to allow men into then has to train the men they were forced to allow in how not to rape? I'd love to write that sex assault prevention program. It would look like this:

1. Do not rape anybody or touch them against their will.

Period. End of training.

[33girl]

Sexual assault is not just men assaulting women.

I’m also guessing that the training spoken of is something all social organizations have to do and isn’t necessarily about preventing sexual assault among the members of the group, but preventing it in general. The article isn’t too clear, but I would think if they have to take a course about not assaulting each other, the story would come right out and say it - that’s a way juicier story.