Posted on 03/08/2007 9:42:34 PM PST by stainlessbanner
ST. LOUIS, Missouri (AP) -- 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.
"I wanted to be in a sorority so bad," said Danielle Cooney, a 22-year-old sophomore math major. "Then I had my son. I didn't have a baby sitter to do all that."
Cooney, whose son Jordan is 3, soon realized that other women on the Missouri-St. Louis campus -- a commuter school where the average student age is 27 -- sought those bonds of sisterhood while also struggling to raise and provide for their children.
Mu Tau Rho stands for "Mothers Together in Parenting," members said. The uppercase Greek letter "rho" is identical to the English capital "P."
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Young mothers find motherhood in college fraternity.
Not sure where CNN got their stats but the average student I've seen at UMSL isn't 27.
Nothing new.
In 1987 when I pledged my fraternity, a good friend pledged a sorority. In her pledge class one of her "sisters" was a few weeks pregnant.
The next fall we had a woman join the women's group that was affiliated with my fraternity. She was older (late 20's early 30's?) than most of the other actives and had an 8 year old son.
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