[umsami]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/03....ap/index.html

"Magic Markers, bubble wands and jungle-animal stickers aren't often found in the average college student's backpack.

For the women of Mu Tau Rho, a new sorority for student-mothers at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, those toys are every bit as vital as laptop computers and e-mail accounts."

Cool!

 

[SirPentor]

That's awesome I guess. Hopefully this will help some young women get a good education. I truly don't (and never have) understood the burning desire to be in a fraternity or sorority, though.

 

[elmh23]

What a great resource for student parents! I wish our University had something like that!

 

[kittywitty]

That is great!

I am not a fan of greek orgs, but all the same, it would be a good support system, I hope.

 

[applejuice]

Quote:

Originally Posted by SirPentor That's awesome I guess. Hopefully this will help some young women get a good education. I truly don't (and never have) understood the burning desire to be in a fraternity or sorority, though.

When I was first in college, the Greek system was considered bourgeois as so many of them were considered sexist or racist in practice or origin.

Now it is back again.

Everything old is new again.

 

[dakotamidnight]

thats wonderful!!!

I feel very left out of the college student life since having DD - my frat {co-ed} doesn't know what to do with me really

:

I wonder if I could start a chaper?

 

[SirPentor]

Quote:

Originally Posted by applejuice When I was first in college, the Greek system was considered bourgeois as so many of them were considered sexist or racist in practice or origin. Now it is back again. Everything old is new again.

During my one semester at a small, private school there were people there saying that one of the reasons they went there was so they wouldn't have to join a frat/sorority (this school doesn't have a greek system). When I voiced my question, "couldn't you just go to some other school and not join?" they just stared at me.

 

[member234098]

I was told that Amherst University in Massachusetts outlawed fraternities and sororities decades ago.