be an example

I am so disheartened and saddened at the way alums act during recruitment. It’s not those of us that have recently become alum, it’s those that have been alum 10 years or more. I can appreciate being proud of your sorority but, there is so many of you that carry it to the extreme. A sorority is not who I am. I see most of you identifying yourself more as an XYZ, than a mother, a wife, a daughter, an aunt, a Methodist, a Baptist, a Christian, a teacher, a nurse, a lawyer etc. In all your years after college is there not another group where you made friends such as work, church or your child’s school? Do you give yourself a title associated with those groups that you interact with on a daily basis as often as you do a house you haven’t lived in in over 20 years? Do you compete with and belittle your children’s friends, other businesses in your profession, other churches and schools in your community with as much hatred as you do other sorority houses? For those of you raising daughters, you are creating a legacy that you should be ashamed of. You are the reason we continually have to fight sorority stereotypes. Be an example and if you cannot be a good one do not be one at all.