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Originally posted by James
Why are the girls so willing to bow to the administration?
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Some other posts have given possible reasons; I'd like to mention another possibility or two.
Think of just a handful of well-known schools that have deferred recruitment for women -- Indiana U., Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Duke, Southern Methodist, Cornell, Stanford, and Harvard, for instance. Since all of the NPC sororities at the U. of Colorado* have a chapter at at least one of those schools-- and some are at lots of them-- those sororities may feel, based on experience, that deferred recruitment isn't the end of the world. Or at any rate they may feel that when you have to pick your battles, this particular tussle isn't one they want to pursue.
Another reason may be that the NPC sororities at Colorado feel, rightly or wrongly, that they are in better shape financially than the fraternities and can weather a semester or a year or two of adjustment to deferred.
A third possibility could be that NPC sororities might tend to view deferred recruitment a bit more positively than fraternities do. Besides giving freshmen a semester to acclimatize themselves to university life, deferred recruitment can give the sororities a chance to see if some potential prospective new members are showing any substantial problems with grades, time management, out-of-control behavior, or extreme flakiness. Active members can have the chance to know PNMs slightly better after a semester has passed than at the beginning of the school year.
Not to say that deferred is perfect or always desirable -- but I can at least imagine that sororities might be willing to accept it.
* Note: NPC at U. of Colorado: Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Omicron Pi, Alpha Phi, chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta, Delta Gamma, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pi Beta Phi.