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In erder tbat the alumnae of Alpha Sigma Alphn may understand something f>f the "t&riOUS obangtlS that hn·va ()0:tl0 to pasa in the Sorority recently, as well as tM i.mperativo neoeani ty :tor -those ona~ea i!l strue·67.lro s.nd. ambi~ions, it has be<Jn deemed best to set for·th an e.~~" la~ltl"~.ion 1n this issue of the. .PRODU:. · When Alpho. S 18mn Alpb.n was :tour..ded 1.~ l9~1, -:;'here soemoCl. t ., ·oa no reason w~y the snrori ty- should not ~1:"ro1Jl"t. cnrt ))n.a o~:-~'lbli~h chr..p".;er9 nn:;'\'7hare in the O:O"'lr.try, ns its predeze~OO:t"'S e.t ·thO' V1.'7" 3 ~- ·11n s ·~a:GI7 J~' o:r:wal Sohool !lad dono.. There was the whole SoutheTU fteld lyi~~ nt i:t~ r!.oor, eo -....i&\} spc~ak, ~.d a!to:r tho.-t, of oon.rsc th13 l'ro"t"·tn, th& ]is. -:.~·c S."lci ·~ho i7oE~t. A~pha 31p:mn. Alpha ~ :ioundo1l with tbe e~pac ·::;atlon -~nat 1·o woulJ "very soon b&aaa.o a strong nn·tional soroTi'hy. Lilrn its r1Ynls o~ ·i:;ho 'h ...mo (;round th~n. 1 t began to oharter groltps in tiitforo::Jt ?U:t> ts of iihe no·.tt!a.. In l9(}9 11; t1ent int• Ohio. I=. tho moa.nt1ms :t·i:o -oredooesso!'s a~ Fa:ntv'llle hurt ~J.leo extended, but somewhat mo:r.e ·~idely. I·t nss while e:w1ge. ~od in "ii~is gc:>e:::G.. l pol·~0J of extension ·tne c; 1 ts rivals, espe<'ir..l!:r Zap-pa :Jcl·ta. .:."ld ze · ~'l :r~~l Al:!ih-9. ~ ran into an obstruct 1011 that they ~ad ::.o~ eX?e o·t~C! to ~:ae et, 'L':bo:i:.r cxte:'lsion brought th.ern ln·co aJ.ose· q11.ar.te-r9 w~: ~!l sorue of tile ots J't"'n.:-t b.'= ~cn · or·i ers. and they begn:u. to k~.0~7 the m·Ja!:1.1ng o:r a.n ·•N .P .c .3ot-o!'i't;y". f nr ·i:.t oy found that they lost girls :t-iBht a.l():ng to sorori·t'!e9 t~s.1.·~ 'bore th8.t ;:i.a ll mark. 7lhat was the sienii'i~anae of t~1esc three magio lo"t;tex-r;? An tnvestig~rtion showl3d. ·that tb.;y stc.od fo~ "l;ationlll P.~.nnelleni ·o Congress", that this organh~ ·~tion had. boen established in l£' 02, ll· t the bsclge of any sorority on its roll mean~ that its t7carer had. b~e:n ~o s bo:n.a. fide aollege, whereas any o·ther badge m1~t. mean anything :Lro~ a smal, ?rtY~te so.bool to a college. Girls w;:,.o reeoived several bids at a la:rse univers1't7 naturally selooted the badg'3 that stood for a coller;e ee.'· ~;~ion 1n the eya:e of everybody, at all fa'Ili l :t.a:r wi tb the fraternity sys·i:om . '5 i -nc · these throe letters had such n magi~a.l ·ehar.m in winning girls, evc:t'Y cno o the South&m 8oror1ttos wished to b.e·long to N .P .c. This they fo"lllCi, h owcvc was absolutolJ" 1mposs1blo so long as there was on their rolls a n y in£titution that did not have oollogiato re.nk nccordillg to various agenl)ies ~hc:.t deoidea. whnt that word 'oollogia·te' I:lennt. Tho S.Outhom so:rori ty · discov er cd that it must drop from its roll anything tbnt dia not measure _up t o tho standard set by N .P .c. ·· Zeta !'au .Alpha, at its convention in l9¢6;· ua the fust to ra1s e · 1 its standards by dropping from its roll ev ry chapter not located at a aollega. is neoea th ss er Oha te t .Vir-:·inia S a e 1 Sohoo • Sigma Sigma St~a thought that 1'\ oould gain the same ond by keeping its ~othor Cr~pter and restri~t1ns its ~hart grants to institutions of collegiate r&rJ.k. Wh.en 1 ts ohnpters at · F.a.ndolph-~ Mcoon a:nd Southwestern asko·d f~r an ho~.o;c.ablo reloase to enable the::: to go. into nn B,P.C. sororit.y, the aooiety saw only too clearly the futility of trying to exist as a 'hibr1d' crgani.zoiiic:!l. r·t aocorciingl3 do~ided in 1911 to boco~ n protesai~tal eorgpity , limitina rts grents to No~a Schools. ita.pi f a ltn, aftno fbst !ounded ti:t '1f ne Virgtnin Stato ormnl scEool, postponed its cbnnge 1n polioy until 1911, when it too gal'6 up its Mother Chapter. All Southel"n sororities, with the e:l'.:oaption of Sigma ~ igina S:tgr'la an~ Llpba Si~ Alphs, aro now on the roll of the National Penh olldnic Con grees, havine been admittod as follows,- Chi O~ega. in 1903. Zeta Tau Al ? he tn 1909, Alpha Dolta Pi 1n 1910, Phi Mu and Knppa ,Delta in 19J ~ . / t
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