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Originally posted by polarpi
Slight correction....at no time is the "younger" of the pair not equal with the "older" sister. Once a woman accepts a bid into ADPi, she has the same voting privileges of a current member. The only things they have not experienced until their initiation is ritual related stuff and membership selection.
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Point taken. I'd argue that the new members and sisters aren't "quite" equal because of that one aspect, that the NMs haven't participated in ritual yet, but I know a lot of sororities, ADPi in particular, go out of their way to put the NMs on equal footing with sisters in all other aspects.
AEPhi draws more of a distinction between NMs and sisters. NMs, for example, are not allowed to wear the Greek letters. We also informally use the big/little terminology; according to our national office, we "shouldn't", but nothing happens to you if you do. I honestly don't know anyone in my chapter who was ever bothered because she was referred to as a little.
Now that we've
completely hijacked this thread...
Back on topic, I never saw a formal "adoption" in my chapter when I was an active, but sometimes when a family did something together, they'd call up a sister or two who had a smaller or nonexistent family, and ask them to come along. That was nice, and mixed things up a bit.
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