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saddersadbear

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@sadbear. Interesting and highly amusing response. Thank you for a good laugh. Contrary to your so silly assumption, I don't in any way underestimate the power of lifelong membership given that I am now the 4th generation of my family to be involved in the system. I would never have joined an organization if I didn't believe in lifelong membership. Sadly though you sound like yet another of the apologists for the national organizations that have their heads in the sand and seem to be trapped in the middle/dark ages on any number of issues, social and otherwise. My favorite line of yours was about the 'Alumnae moving heaven and earth' to assist collegians'. Ha. In my experience with some of these 'well meaning folk' its all about beating the current generation into submission/compliance and has zero to do with understanding or making any attempt at flexibility or anything so radical as evolution (god forbid). I value lifelong membership but if history teaches us anything it is that systems must adapt and evolve or fear extinction. Sadly I see little evidence of evolution in the greek community and what makes me sad is that more and more schools will move away from Greek life over time for a variety of reasons. Sure disaffiliation is an option for any member at any time and over this past year I know many have considered this a viable option for a host of reasons. All I know is those nationals stuck in the 1950s risk much in terms of the longevity of their organizations. For myself I can say I have a healthy fear of our national but I in no way respect them. I don't think my view is that unusual and organizations based on fear and intimidation usually can last quite a long time unfortunately. I am not sure what our system wide drop rates are going back in time but it seems at least recently that many more people aren't buying the value of 'lifelong sisterhood' and see the nationals as adding little value and simply being money grubbing vampires. Why not just call these organizations businesses and at least be honest about what they are and are not?