Legacies

CASIGKAP · #1 04-09-2004, 01:26 PM

I am not married nor do I have children but I was curious. I have two nieces with a third niece on the way. Would they be considered legacies to Sigma Kappa b/c I am a sister in SK?
Or do only daughters of members become legacies?

I myself was NOT a legacy b/c I am the first in my family to become a member of a sorority.

FSUZeta · #2 04-09-2004, 01:33 PM

answer to your question would be to contact sigma kappa national headquarters. some sororities consider indirect legacies, with direct legacies being daughters, granddaughters or sisters.
no matter what, you can certainly write a recommendation for them.

FirstAndFinest · #3 04-09-2004, 02:04 PM

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Originally posted by FSUZeta
direct legacies being daughters, granddaughters or sisters.
no matter what, you can certainly write a recommendation for them.

That is ADPi's policy

_Lisa_ · #4 04-09-2004, 02:38 PM

Sigma Kappa considers sisters/step sisters, daughters/step-daughters, granddaughters/step granddaughters, & nieces/step-nieces to be legacies.

FirstAndFinest · #5 04-09-2004, 04:10 PM

Interesting! I'll have to look into the step- thing. I may have a stepdaughter soon...

nauadpi · #6 04-09-2004, 04:35 PM

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Originally posted by FirstAndFinest
Interesting! I'll have to look into the step- thing. I may have a stepdaughter soon...

I know at least my chapter will take stepdaughters into consideration, since much of the time they have been exposed to them same ideals that any adpi would bestow upon their children. Officially I am not sure that it is considered though.

FirstAndFinest · #7 04-09-2004, 04:42 PM

NAUADPi

I had posted the question of steps and was told we don't consider them. However, times do change - I'm sure at the time the Legacy policy was established NO one was getting divorces!!!

Yes, I know I can give her a rec, but being a leg is different...

adpiucf · #8 04-09-2004, 04:46 PM

It depends on the ADPi chapter. As a policy, steps do not qualify as official legacies. However, when an ADPi step sister/daughter/grandaughter, ADPi neice or ADPi cousin has come through, my chapter always regarded her with good consideration, even though they were not officially legacies.

Zillini · #9 07-12-2006, 05:30 PM

As already said, ADPi leaves it up to the individual Chapters to determine how they treat steps. The vast majority say yes they are legacies.

However (and I know I've told this story before in some other thread) we had a situation a while back were an in-house active did not want her step-sister considered as a legacy. The active's Mom and step-Dad had been married recently after a whirlwind romance and the active didn't really know or particularly like her new step-sis. Mom was also an alum, but never pursued the matter by sending in a legacy intro. Frankly I was grateful for that because I really didn't want to get in the middle of a Mom/Daughter fight.

adpiucf · #10 07-12-2006, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Zillini

As already said, ADPi leaves it up to the individual Chapters to determine how they treat steps. The vast majority say yes they are legacies.

I wouldn't necessarily agree that most ADPi chapters give steps credit as legacies. Most I've seen view them as being akin to a niece or cousin-- an ADPi relative, but not a legacy.

Zillini · #11 07-12-2006, 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by adpiucf

I wouldn't necessarily agree that most ADPi chapters give steps credit as legacies. Most I've seen view them as being akin to a niece or cousin-- an ADPi relative, but not a legacy.

My apologies. Allow me to clarify my statement. According to what I have been told by an International Officer, the majority of ADPi chapters consider steps as legacies. How accurate was her info? I have no idea and there is no way to check it out.

southernyankee · #12 07-15-2006, 10:32 AM

Was wondering if an active sister, at a different school, will help or hurt her soon to be rushing sister during cuts? Some have given advice not to write the connection down on any forms because the other houses will assume she will go in her sisters direction and could cut her because of it. Others have said since she is not "in house" at her sister's new school, it shouldn't hurt her with the other sororities, but might give her an edge with the sister sorority on the new campus? What do you all think?

Did that make sense?

aephi alum · #13 04-09-2004, 04:47 PM

The definition of a legacy varies among GLOs. AEPhi, for example, is among the sororities that don't consider step-relations... but in reality, a step-sister/daughter/granddaughter would most likely be treated as an "almost-legacy" just as, say, a niece or cousin would.

Even if your nieces aren't legacies, a letter of recommendation from their aunt can't hurt.

sageofages · #14 04-09-2004, 04:57 PM

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Originally posted by crzychx
Sigma Kappa considers sisters/step sisters, daughters/step-daughters, granddaughters/step granddaughters, & nieces/step-nieces to be legacies

I have only 2 daughters

(one is not college bound, and the other is doing college via the army and then a campus without a Phi Mu Chapter (wah!!!!!!).

I like the nieces policy a LOT. I have 6 nieces

and that would give me so hope of having a first generation legacy

....

mommag2 · #15 04-09-2004, 05:22 PM

What if an alum of a sorority has legal guardianship/adopted children would they also qualify as legacies?

P.S. The child that they have guardianship of is not blood related, would that matter?