{"id":13803,"date":"2015-04-21T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=13803"},"modified":"2019-08-02T12:29:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T16:29:23","slug":"sisterhood-and-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=13803","title":{"rendered":"SISTERHOOD AND STUFF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>do you know how sororities work? like how do you join one&#8230;what do you have to do?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>hey there,<\/p>\n<p>well, you have to attend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uoftsororities.org\/#!recruitment-information\/cy6p\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">formal recruitment<\/a>, which takes place one week after frosh week. you have to pay a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uoftsororities.org\/#!frequently-asked-questions\/cu9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$20 fee to register<\/a>, and then there are further fees to remain a member. these further fees are determined by each sorority individually, so you can take a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uoftsororities.org\/#!alpha-gamma-delta\/c1f5h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">specific sororities<\/a> you&#8217;re interested in for more details about that.<\/p>\n<p>if you&#8217;re asking about hazing or whatever, they&#8217;re pretty clear that they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uoftsororities.org\/#!break-the-stereotype\/c217h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">don&#8217;t stand for that kind of thing<\/a>. you&#8217;re not forced to do anything <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uoftsororities.org\/#!frequently-asked-questions\/cu9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">during the the initiation ceremony that you don&#8217;t want to do<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>once you&#8217;ve joined, you just start getting involved! you attend meetings, spend time with your sorority sisters, participate in charity work, etc. after you&#8217;ve been a member for a while, you can even move into the sorority house.<\/p>\n<p>and that&#8217;s pretty much how it works, from what i can tell as a <a href=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/F2tEycX28oDO8\/giphy.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plebeian outsider<\/a>. for more details, i&#8217;d highly recommend you attend their formal registration week, and ask all the specific questions you&#8217;d like.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;ll just note that the sororities at uoft aren&#8217;t affiliated with the university, so they do sort of operate on their own. meaning that all these fees and regulations and rules about housing, etc. isn&#8217;t run or regulated by uoft, but by the sorority itself &#8211; so they&#8217;re the best people to go to with questions, concerns, etc.<\/p>\n<p>all the best,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>do you know how sororities work? like how do you join one&#8230;what do you have to do? \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, well, you have to attend formal recruitment, which takes place one week after frosh week. you have to pay a $20 fee to register, and then there are further fees to remain a member. these further fees are determined by each sorority individually, so you can take a look at the specific sororities you&#8217;re interested in for more details about that. if you&#8217;re asking about hazing or whatever, they&#8217;re pretty clear that they don&#8217;t stand for that kind of thing. you&#8217;re not forced to do anything during the the initiation ceremony that you don&#8217;t want to do. once you&#8217;ve joined, you just start getting involved! you attend meetings, spend time with your sorority sisters, participate in charity work, etc. after you&#8217;ve been a member for a while, you can even move into the sorority house. and that&#8217;s pretty much how it works, from what i can tell as a plebeian outsider. for more details, i&#8217;d highly recommend you attend their formal registration week, and ask all the specific questions you&#8217;d like. i&#8217;ll just note that the sororities at uoft aren&#8217;t affiliated with the university, so they do sort of operate on their own. meaning that all these fees and regulations and rules about housing, etc. isn&#8217;t run or regulated by uoft, but by the sorority itself &#8211; so they&#8217;re the best people to go to with questions, concerns, etc. all the best, aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraternities-sororities"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}