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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You people do realize that binge drinking and date rapes occur in people who aren't in greek life correct?

I was in a sorority for 2 years.  It was very casual at my school because no one was allowed to live in their houses.  It was basically a way to make friends your freshman year (although I'm only still friends with one girl from my sorority) and to have places to go/things to do.

I got out my junior year because I became involved in a lot more activities and didn't have time to keep up with all of them.  My best friends were either not in my sorority, or they were but they were also involved in another activity of mine.  It just wasn't worth it to keep membership up.

I feel like some people like to hate on Greek life for the stereotype of it.  It varies from school to school.  Down south, yes they take it more seriously.  But you go to a school like mine where the Greeks don't live in their houses and it is a pretty laid back environment and far from exclusionary.  [/quote]

So anyone who wanted to could join?  Everyone who rushed was invited to join?[/quote]

A few points in defense of GLOs:

1.  Different conferences  of GLOs handle it differently, but in general, for NPC sororities (historically white sororities), every qualified woman is guaranteed a bid if she completes recruitment and maximizes her options by accepting every invitation she is given during recruitment and lists all of her "preffed" sororities on the card she signs at the end for recruitment.

Women may not be qualified because they are a grade risk, or because they don't have references, or because they don't have extra-curriculars.  It is very rare that a qualified woman will be cross-cut by every sorority prior to the preference parties and every woman who goes to pref is guaranteed a bid on most campuses. It may not be a bid to the #1 house, but it's a bid somewhere.

2. Hazing is illegal everywhere, and even the worst hazing groups have worked very hard to eliminate it on a national level. It is not a common experience, by any means.

3.  "Paying for my friends" - if that is what I did, it's money well spent. I have a network of women who I share common experiences and common values with in every state.  I can move anywhere and if there is alumnae chapter of my GLO there, I have an instant network to help me get situated. I have a social group that supports charities that I believe in and which makes it easy for me to volunteer to help those charities. I have a way to network with younger women from my college and mentor them as they begin their careers. The GLO experience instituationalizes a number of activities that I value and makes them easy to do.

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