Comments on: Sorority Style

By: Jane

Jane — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 08:09:40 +0000

I never came across a sorority girl who was even worth speaking to. Dumb, elitist, promiscuous and even more judgmental than you’ll assume I am, their assumption that they “rule” the school always made me laugh. No, honey. No one who isn’t in your silly little system gives two shits about you, your functions or your rules. The football players think they rule the school, too. So do the basketball players. The guys who run the IT department think the same thing, since they maintain your Internet connection.

The U.S. Greek system is a blight on its educational landscape and is made for people who need their cliques and buddies in order to survive. As someone else said above, there’s barely and ounce of individualism or uniqueness amongst you people. It’s very, very sad.

By: team gingerbread

team gingerbread — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 16:38:00 +0000

Great post. I’m not going to be trite and pretend that Greek life is for everyone, but it has been good to me and I’ve met some of my best friends in university through the Greek system.

The Greek scene is still pretty small at my school, but the Greeks do dominate a lot of leadership positions

By: groovyrooster

groovyrooster — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:45:00 +0000

You are a making a lot of valid points about why Greek life can be an amazing opportunity for anyone in college. Historically Greek organizations were founded around a true sisterhood or brotherhood that had common ideals and worked together to reach admirable goals. Unfortunately many Greeks out there today do not hold themselves to that higher standard and their transgressions are creating the downfall of Greek life. They say it only takes a few bad apples, and this situation is no different.

I am a member of Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority – and my organization represents just the beginning of a new phase in Greek life which is anything but traditional. My organization wants to bring back the higher standards on which Greek life was founded.

There are a lot of negative things going on in the Greek world right now – and I can honestly tell you I would not have joined a traditional sorority. But after reading your post I know we do share a lot of the positive experiences of Greek life. I hope that people will always be able to benefit from a close brotherhood or sisterhood – but it is in danger.

I was a president of the Inter-Greek Council at my college and we talked about ways to save the Greek system all the time. My opinion – higher standards to live up to and offering orgs that want to be purely social the opportunity to become just social orgs.

Here’s to hoping ….

#3 Charisma
SPR 01 – Delta Chapter – Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc.

By: holiday

holiday — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 22:24:00 +0000

I loved being in a sorority and I’m still reaping the benefits as alumni. Sure sometimes our chapter meetings were watching Machiavelli’s “The Prince” play out, but I still loved the experience.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 15:01:00 +0000

Ahh, we can’t spell though.
I never liked to proof-read…

Anoymous lj-er again.