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Pan-Hellenic Congress to change this criticism into approval. The
national Pan-Hellenic should stand for greater things and nobler
purposes than petty rules. I t must be the link that w i l l bind the
fraternity world to the non-fraternity world. I t must work f o r
unity of purpose and leave out the personal element. I f this tide of
g r o w i n g criticism is to be stemmed we must make the outside w o r l d
see that we are clear headed, f a i r minded women who stand f o r the
best i n the college w o r l d and i n the home and i n the w o r l d o f
affairs.

A l p h a Omicron P i must not shirk her responsibility. She must
work w i t h local Pan-Hellenics and assist i n everything that tends
to make f r a t e r n i t y l i f e , a l i f e above reproach. She must do her share
in dispelling the cloud that hangs over and above the door of the
college fraternity. Work for higher scholarship, better social life
and less snobbery.

Be a sister i n all its true and beautiful meaning. I f we do this,
instead of the woe that is now pronounced against college fraternities
a benediction of peace and g o o d w i l l w i l l be proclaimed.

CARRIE GREEN CAMPBELL.

WHY I B E L I E V E IN PAN-HELLENICS

I f we, as f r a t e r n i t y women, are to accomplish anything o f
permanent value we must do it by concerted effort. A t the present
moment the whole fraternity w o r l d is under judgment. The faults
of one fraternity, chapter, or even individual are considered as be-
longing to a l l and as necessary evils. We w i l l a l l admit that faults,
grave ones in many cases, exist, but not that they are part and parcel
of the fraternity system.

Against these faults, we have, it seems, borne a p o w e r f u l correc-
tive weapon. Pan-Hellenics, local and national, have the power to
encourage, strengthen, and curb, to maintain an even balance. Pan-
Hellenics w i l l act as a melting pot f o r the ideals we have set up.
out of which w i l l develop a really worth while system.

I think we should look on the national Pan-Hellenic much as we
do the national organization of our own fraternity. As a member
of Delta of Alpha Omicron Pi, I feel the need of a central organi-
zation to which the interests of several chapters of different types
may be submitted. As a member of A l p h a Omicron P i , I feel the
need of a wider organization to which the interests of my own and
other fraternities may be submitted. Because the members of that
council wear different pins they are none the less sisters, looking f o r
the same general ideal, that is a system which w i l l f u l f i l l certain