really?

Personally I am passionate about reading. Literacy seriously makes a persons future so much brighter. For example, Ben Carson's mother was illiterate, but she encouraged her children to read. This ultimately allowed him to save hundreds of lives through his neurosurgery. I personally was a mediocre student until I discovered a love of reading. My grades skyrocketed and I am now planning to be an editor. This wasn't a delayed improvement but an immediate impact. Literacy cannot be improved entirely w money, but takes time and dedication. Some charities do just fine raising money w the general public. A national sorority does good by raising money- but doesn't impact the charity as much. I am seriously considering Pi Phi specifically because of their reading initiative. This is in spite of being a legacy to the house with "the best philanthropy".

Lol okaaaay... But no philanthropy can cause you to find a passion in reading. The philanthropy teaches people that can't read to read and that occurs mainly in poor countries where reading isn't going to really get them far. Everyone I spoke to during recruitment was not impressed with certain houses' philanthropies, reading being one of them. But the point was that you should choose a house with a philanthropy that you're passionate about. You, OP, are just judgemental and obsessed with arguing with people, I'm not sure which house you'll fit in with that attitude, likely none of them :(

I assumed the reading initiative was focused on the local community. I guess I will learn more during recruitment.

To the ignorant trolls who posted: "that occurs mainly in poor countries where reading isn't going to really get them far" and who called the effort toward literacy a "really random cause," your white privilege is showing. Literacy is important in every country among every income level. You can fight your way out of negative circumstances unless you know how to read. Or perhaps you just think poor people should know their place and stay there. And while the philanthropy on our campus focuses on literacy right here in the good old U.S. of A, shame on you for not recognizing the problem and for not wanting to help eliminate it.

I did not think that was an issue everyone I know can read except some older family members but even they are super successful lol I feel for families who are dealing with terminal illness far more and I definitely think that's a more important cause

Funny, you type exactly like that other person, what a coincidence. Regardless, can't understand how anyone could compare literacy to serious illness, not on the same level, period...

Every time you ^ start typing you reveal a bit more ignorance and stupidity. Are you really being critical of a sorority because they think it is important that people learn to read? When you deny a person the opportunity to read, you sentence them to a life without hope. Some 85% of all juveniles in the court system are functionally illiterate, and more than 70% of inmates in America's prisons cannot read above a fourth grade level. Schools in the inner city are mostly awful and aren't getting the job done. So our favorite lily white suburbanite thinks that's just fine.

Oh god it's the Aphi hater who accuses anyone with a good point of not being able to form a sentence. Says more about your comprehension skills than her writing skills just sayin.

Here's what you're missing - You're an unemployed tool that just woke up about an hour ago because you spend every night on GR til 3am despite not being apart of our Greek system. The end.

I guess hoping that the people i meet during recruitment will be indicators of the type of girls my pledge class would consist of? Idk. I am certainly not picking a house based on what hot guys they hang out with though. And i certainly haven't picked any of my other friends based on beauty (other than having a beautiful heart).

LOL you sound so disingenuous, you are definitely a troll