Delta Gamma Eliminates Legacy Policy

[Cheerio]

Originally Posted by TriDeltaSallie

And I guarantee you that it will only be a matter of time before NPC organizations call out for every bit of "white ideals and perspectives" (read: Christian references and language) to be eliminated from the rituals. If that happens, the Tri Delta ritual won't even be my ritual. To re-write it would basically require an entire new ritual. Which brings me back to the question of what do we have in common if not our rituals? Color and a mascot.

Originally Posted by TriDeltaSallie

All I know is that those of us who have a ritual with "white ideals and perspectives" (read: significant Christian content and text) have real reason to be concerned. I'm telling you right now that our ritual will not survive a purging of "white ideals and perspectives" and any Tri Delta who is reading this knows exactly what I'm talking about.

Originally Posted by carnation

Ditto on ours. And I will be frank, I have seen most of the NPC rituals because I have a friend who's a ritual collector-- and gutting their rituals will leave little as well.

Originally Posted by TriDeltaSallie

They specifically address "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" at length in this video and how it destroys organizations. I'm not going to apologize for continuing to push this video because I think the average Greek woman has no idea what is coming to her organization once leadership starts down this path.

It takes a bit for them to lay the foundation of the discussion, but once they hit the practical application aspects of it and how they've witnessed it play out people will understand why I'm pushing this.

For reference, this is a Christian and two atheists discussing this so this is not a religious perspective. They speak at length about the destruction it causes in the academy/high education, the new atheist movement, professional organizations, social clubs, etc.

Again, I'm going to give sorority leadership the benefit of the doubt that they have the best of intentions and simply don't realize what they are unleashing.

https://youtu.be/YDFL3xwEEG8

Okay, it's been a few months since this thread has updated.

Has anyone noticed NPC sororities strongly trending toward the gutting of their rituals, traditions and standards? Revise, replace, rewrite, reconstruct?

Or have cooler, more logical heads prevailed on this topic?

How about our NPHC sisters, are they in the midst of revamping any/all of their organizational rituals/traditions/standards for the sake of diversity, equity/equality and inclusion?

Perhaps ritual renovation is only to be performed by 'white' sororities afraid of losing the membership and approval of POC.

No sorority organization should lose their perspective on what their group, JUST AS IT IS, has to offer women. We ask PNMs to Be Themselves as we choose them, how is it we need no longer Be What We Are as they choose between our groups?

Misplaced fear can breed self-contempt. I think the speakers in the video TDS posted above had every intention of stoking fear.

Further, is there truly a connotation of race hatred/white supremacy located within some of our rituals? Is that what's been causing all the fear in some posters in this thread?

[Sen's Revenge]

Originally Posted by Cheerio

How about our NPHC sisters, are they in the midst of revamping any/all of their organizational rituals/traditions/standards for the sake of diversity, equity/equality and inclusion?

Perhaps ritual renovation is only to be performed by 'white' sororities afraid of losing the membership and approval of POC.

No one in an NPHC organization who comes to this board (all two of us) will disclose ANYTHING about our rituals to non-members, not even in a roundabout way, to humor the point you're trying to make.

[Titchou]

Originally Posted by Sen's Revenge

No one in an NPHC organization who comes to this board (all two of us) will disclose ANYTHING about our rituals to non-members, not even in a roundabout way, to humor the point you're trying to make.

And I can assure I am not either....NPC member here - my ritual is sacred to me and I do not share..

[PersistentDST]

Originally Posted by Sen's Revenge

No one in an NPHC organization who comes to this board (all two of us) will disclose ANYTHING about our rituals to non-members, not even in a roundabout way, to humor the point you're trying to make.

All three* of us.

And nope. Not even a little bit. We don’t have anything to do with it.

[TriDeltaSallie]

I watched a live stream of my ritual this spring after a sister who saw this thread and knew me in real life contacted me. She told me that our organization had already changed part of the ritual. I knew without her telling me what it would be because it was profoundly Christian.

I was correct. It was a central part of the ritual, not just a passing comment. I can't explain why without giving too much away. But to remove it greatly weakened the ritual. If I now meet a sister who has been initiated recently, we don't share the same understanding of parts of our sisterhood. That's as much as I can say, but that's the reality.

I take my ritual seriously. When I was chapter president, I took the ritual book home over the summer so I could memorize it and look my sisters in the eye while initiating them rather than having my head buried in the book. For a variety of reasons, I presided over the ritual multiple times. I took it very seriously.

So I don't appreciate the insinuations that because I'm discussing this that I don't. It would have been easier to say nothing here than raise these issues.

I stand by what I said. Look in the forum today. A new thread about a national organization being petitioned by members of an apparently strong and old chapter to dissolve their chapter because it doesn't fit with the woke narrative of the current members. The experience and work of generations of women on that campus potentially snuffed out because a group of women today want something completely different and they want it now.

But, yeah, go ahead and pretend those men in the video were fear mongering and I don't take my ritual seriously if that makes you feel better.