[gpb1874]

i come from a small campus in texas and hard time reconcilling my own beliefs and that pf using rec's to cut someone. that is until i spent a weekend with the UT panhellenic advisor at a conference. we talked a lot about UT's recruitment b/c i was so fascinated (both of the campuses i've worked at have very small scale recruitment).

after first round, the larger chapters have to cut somewhere around 400 women! (i just wish that many WENT through recruitment at my campus!) holy crap, what are the chapters supposed to do? it is not possible to get to know that many women really well, so it is necessary to devise some method to make cuts. while it sucks that pnm's can get cut for not having a rec or not enough and only a handfull of women from each chapter meet her, it is important to remember there are few other options. grades will only cut so many. i still don't necessarily agree with it (using recs), but also don't know if there is really any other way.

while we can criticize it all we want, until another way can be found to make cut decisions in a better way, it seems this is what has to be done.