I hope this thread remains civil...
When I joined my chapter, we were 1/3 black, 1/3 white, 1/3 Asian and Hispanic (sorry to lump, just wanted to give an idea of the racial breakdown) About 8 women were from foreign countries and we represented 10 US States. That is pretty racially/ethniclly(sp?)/geographicly diverse for a chapter of 25 and at a liberal arts college in Wisconsin. Our campus had a pretty open culture regarding race and acceptance of diversity. The famous Greek event at Beloit, was the DG chapter initiating a black woman in the 1960s before national policy allowed, then chapter then lost their charter. (The whole story:
http://www.beloit.edu/%7Etheta/home.html )
I guess what I'm getting at is that I think our organizations can take on the personality of the campus on which they are located. Beloit was accepting, so people crossed lines that they wouldn't have had they gone to a different school. Granted it may have mattered that AKA told a group they would not be willing to colonize on our campus. The choices were local or AST.
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