Wow, that's very interesting!!!
[quote]I sense that this is different from BGLOs...if you are not accepted by the
BGLO that you've researched and committed to in your heart, then no other BGLO (or any
GLO, for that matter) is for you. I may be off on my POV, please feel free to clarify.[quote]
Nope, that's about the long and the short of it. Most members of BGLOs feel pretty confidant in saying that because we have several chapters, ways of getting in the orgainzation even if the chapter on your campus is not active, and whe take quite a few members thruough Alumnae chapters. If the chapter on your campus or in your area doesen't seem to agree that you would be an asset to them, you can just try again later. If you show up wearing someone elses letters next year, then the chapter that turned you down was right.. you weren't for them.
[Quote]but then I'm not sure what exactly what the resources are that BGLO prospects are expected to use in researching a GLO, and what exactly they're supposed to research. [Quote]
The internet has made life very easy for prospective members of BGLOs, they can look up the national website of the orginaizations they are interested in, they can look up their prospective chapter's site. I know that all of the sororities have books that you can buy in a bookstore or check out in the library about the history and purpose of the orgainizations. In Search of Sisterhood, by Paula Giddings is the "must read" for all prospective Deltas. In fact, I would suggest that you all read it. By necessity, it goes deep into the history of both Delta Sigma Theta and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sororities, and gives a very good context and rationale for why we stay so demonstative with our affiliations.
As far as what they are supposed to be looking for well, I explain it this way:
If I were to ask a prospective member of Delta "Why Do you want to be a member" and what I hear is about what you can see by looking at this chapter alone.. they have missed the point! Things like colors, the popularity, niceness, intellegence, ect. of the members here, a project that we are involved with here (without being able to tell me about the national program behind it) are inconsequential (sp?). When we bring our girls out, they have soror who come from the 8 surrounding states to meet them and bring gifts and welcome them to the sisterhood. If they chose Delta because of this campus alone , they would miss the beauty of thay moment, and I would have set them up for it by allowing them to do it.
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