The title sounds incredulous; but I found this letter to the editor (which I'll paste below) which states just that.
To the Editor:
This is in response to Kristen Ziegler's article "Proposal for multicultural center accepted" in the Mar. 23, 2006 edition of The Weekly. I am the president of Theta Nu Xi, the multicultural sorority mentioned at the end of the article. While my sisters and I greatly appreciate the fact that our plan to donate to the Center was included, there is a larger issue at hand which has been overlooked.
The reason we decided to fundraise and donate the proceeds to the Center in the first place is that we were originally included in the plan as an organization that would have use of the Center. Unfortunately, Theta Nu Xi has been removed from the final proposal because we are not affiliated with the College. However, Ziegler writes that part of the Center's mission is to "provide support to the community and outreach to the Allentown community." Although Theta Nu Xi is not recognized by Muhlenberg College, it is an official Allentown chapter. If the Center is supposed to serve the Allentown community as well as Muhlenberg students, how can the exclusion of an Allentown-based multicultural organization be justified?
The national organization of Theta Nu Xi was involved in this fundraising effort and my sisters and I are still going to donate everything we have received to the Center. Even though our organization has been prohibited from using the Center, we still want to support the effort to promote multiculturalism at the College and in the Allentown community.
--Nikki DeMaio '08
July 2, 2009
General Information Session on Starting a Sorority for Women
On July 19, 2009 at 12 p.m. (noon) there were be a general information session online (via AIM chatroom) for any woman who is looking to start a sorority or just curious about what being in a sorority entails. Participation in this session confers no comittment in any was on the behalf of the participant. Please send an email to president@deltagammapi.org by July 17, 2009 with your AIM screenname in order to participate. Session length will be at least 1 hour. Women only please.
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