Pledging Backwards...

[mccoyred]

Originally Posted by dzdst796

I guess it would be what their preference is, but I would question that person as to why they feel the need to join a little sister org. to FRATENITY when they are already a member of SORORITY. It just doesn't make sense to me.

That boggles me as well. Now if old girl was MARRIED to a Kappa, the she could be a Silhouette (officially recognized Kappa wives auxiliary) but not a Sweet. To me, it is silly to pledge for someones borrowed letter when you have three of your own.

With service orgs, I see no point in joining after someone pledges a D9 org because the basis of both is service, although D9 has a more social component to it. I see professional orgs as something totally different because they focus on a specific profession and its associated culture; in fact, at some point, I would like to join a professional org.

[agzg]

I'm a member of all sorts of stuff, a couple of which I joined AFTER I joined my women's fraternity. While I may identify more and on more aspects with my sisters in Alpha Gamma Delta, my sisters and brothers in Phi Sigma Iota and others are also dear to my heart. They have different interests, they're different people... I was the only Alpha Gam in my major on my campus, joining other groups, especially academic fraternities, helped me identify on a broader basis with the people that were already in my classes.

I'm not one for little sister or sweetheart organizations, but we don't really have any on my campus. Fraternity chapters have sweethearts and a couple have little sisters that they've "named," but it's not really a group. I don't really think I'd personally go for the "bow to the masters" mentality that a lot of little sisters have in regard to their "big brother" fraternity. And sweethearts, at least on my campus, get treated like crap. Not worth my time.

[jubilance1922]

Originally Posted by marquise1911

^^ Right on the money!!!

Let's be general.

1) The D9 is not the pinnacle of greekdom, but is OBVIOUSLY more developed and organized than the sweet heart organizations they created and latter abandoned.

2) An individual can perform community service and support an organization without pledging a support organization.

3) When one pledges, one makes an oath, hence it's called "pledging". Multiple allegiances lead to conflicts of interests and character.

Graduate from Harvard and then go to a community college for your master's
Quit your job as a corp. exec. to work part time at Burger King
Eric leaving Hallie for Shaquandaniesha from the Boom Boom Room

It's just backwards.

Backwards TO YOU.

If you wouldn't do it that way, then don't. But everyone will not share your opinion or viewpoint, and it may not be backwards to them. As long as they are happy with the choices they made, then you shouldn't be worried about it.

[marquise1911]

Originally Posted by jubilance1922

Backwards TO YOU.

If you wouldn't do it that way, then don't. But everyone will not share your opinion or viewpoint, and it may not be backwards to them. As long as they are happy with the choices they made, then you shouldn't be worried about it.

Jubilance1922 I am not pressed about any one person's choice. The topic is "pledging backwards". I could care less who shares "MY" viewpoint. Hint!!! If someone elses opinion swayed mine, it would be "OUR" view point. So KIM if you disagree.

As it stands a lot of ppl feel and believe a lot of things. I FEEL IT'S BACKWARDS.

[jubilance1922]

Originally Posted by marquise1911

Jubilance1922 I am not pressed about any one person's choice. The topic is "pledging backwards". I could care less who shares "MY" viewpoint. Hint!!! If someone elses opinion swayed mine, it would be "OUR" view point. So KIM if you disagree.

As it stands a lot of ppl feel and believe a lot of things. I FEEL IT'S BACKWARDS.

If you weren't so pressed about it, then you wouldn't have posted it on a website.

Its not about swaying someone's opinion, its about realizing that everyone makes their own choices, and just because someone choices something different you, it doesn't make their choice "wrong" or "backward" or anything else.

But maybe I'm just being too mature about it...

[ZetaStorm]

Marquise1911:
Maybe she's going to uncover the real secret of PHI NU PI
(I'm sorry Marquise1911 but I couldn't resist. LOL) Seriously though have you asked her why she wants to be a sweetheart? Maybe she can provide a better explanation. I don't think that it's a choice that most members of the D9 would make and usually it is done the other way around. This is the first time I've heard of anyone doing this.

[marquise1911]

Originally Posted by jubilance1922

If you weren't so pressed about it, then you wouldn't have posted it on a website.

Its not about swaying someone's opinion, its about realizing that everyone makes their own choices, and just because someone choices something different you, it doesn't make their choice "wrong" or "backward" or anything else.

But maybe I'm just being too mature about it...

***Tapping on microphone***
GC y'all heard it first. Everytime u post something. IT MEANS UR PRESSED ABOUT IT!!!

LOL! Jubilance1922 do me a favor. Kick rocks!

[marquise1911]

Originally Posted by ZetaStorm

Marquise1911:
Maybe she's going to uncover the real secret of PHI NU PI
(I'm sorry Marquise1911 but I couldn't resist. LOL) Seriously though have you asked her why she wants to be a sweetheart? Maybe she can provide a better explanation. I don't think that it's a choice that most members of the D9 would make and usually it is done the other way around. This is the first time I've heard of anyone doing this.

I asked her several times. She said that at her previous college the K-sweets were always the popular and pretty girls and she wanted to be one since her freshman year. So I don't know if she wants to support Kappa or perceive herself as being pretty and popular?

[jubilance1922]

Originally Posted by marquise1911

***Tapping on microphone***
GC y'all heard it first. Everytime u post something. IT MEANS UR PRESSED ABOUT IT!!!

LOL! Jubilance1922 do me a favor. Kick rocks!

Do me a favor...stop caring.

Seriously folks, sometimes its good to step out the Greek matrix.

[marquise1911]

Originally Posted by jubilance1922

Do me a favor...stop caring.

Seriously folks, sometimes its good to step out the Greek matrix.

U seem more pressed than me. Lemme guess, you were thinking about doing the same thing and now I put it on front street and you gotta take all that sweetheart pari you bought back to the store and drop off line.

Again, kick dem rocks!



It's not that serious.

[DST_philoso4]

Originally Posted by ladygreek

Good point. And I agree with Jubilance. If that is what someone wants to do then so be it. For me the greater issue would be wanting to join and organization that is not recognized by the frat to which it attaches itself.

while I agree with the thread starter to a certain extent, where we may diverge, is I feel like, even before pledging an nphc frat, aux are WACK!!!, the greater issue is affiliating yourself with an org that is not nationally recognized. That's like pledging the "yard" or "ghost"... it's like Harold Melving w/o the bluenotes...YOU'LL NEVER GO PLATINUM!

[DST_philoso4]

Originally Posted by marquise1911

U seem more pressed than me. Lemme guess, you were thinking about doing the same thing and now I put it on front street and you gotta take all that sweetheart pari you bought back to the store and drop off line.
Again, kick dem rocks!



It's not that serious.

*DEAD*

[DST_philoso4]

Originally Posted by jubilance1922

If you weren't so pressed about it, then you wouldn't have posted it on a website.

Its not about swaying someone's opinion, its about realizing that everyone makes their own choices, and just because someone choices something different you, it doesn't make their choice "wrong" or "backward" or anything else.

But maybe I'm just being too mature about it...

Why do people do this? I mean, I think most ppl are on here for the same reasons....BOREDOM AND TO MAKE THE WORK DAY GO BY FASTER! This is a topic he found interesting, not necessarily pressed over it, so he put it out there to get the opinions of others, not to be pressed about what someone else is doing, just as all of us have, on SEVERAL occassions including you [I couldn't help but notice you have 678 posts]! And should you decide to consider adding my name to the "pressed train" because I looked and at the thread and saw the number of posts you've made, please refrain from doing so, because you, based on posts, out number me by FAR!! you've had nearly 700 since Dec 2003, I've had just over 100 since May of 2001.

[DST_philoso4]

Originally Posted by jubilance1922

Do me a favor...stop caring.

Seriously folks, sometimes its good to step out the Greek matrix.

Well, I'm sure he does once he leaves GREEKCHAT.com this is a GREEK message board joint, meaning people are going to discuss GREEK issues, among others. So if it were me, and I didn't want to hear anything GREEK, I'd probably go to a board not entitled GREEKCHAT.COM, or anything with the word GREEK in it!

[marquise1911]

^^^Great...We're right here^^^