[PhoenixAzul]

What I'm concerned by is the standards to which we hold PNM's. I'm not saying we should take every delinquent out there, but we all talk about girls with perfect grades and great service records and leadership and blah blah blah...and it's great that those girls want to be part of a sorority, but what about the women who haven't had those sorts of opportunities (Example: Homeschooling, rural living, transfer students from other countries, kids who worked 2 jobs to pay for school meaning that they couldn't attend the Little Sisters of the South Central Purple Rose meetings)? It doesn't mean that they are LESS worthy of membership, it means that they perhaps have MORE to GAIN from membership in a sorority. What is there to gain if we are allready filling our chapters with spotless women? I think that there are some GREAT women out there who would make tremendous contributions to the sorority world if they were given a chance.

Now how to do this..I don't know. The whole "application" thing is really foreign to me. OC doesn't require transcripts (deffered rush = first quarter grades used for freshmen) or any sort of application listing involvement...just name, number, SMC, and legacy status. Had there been an "application" per say... I don't know how half of OC would have been pledged. Just because we're fabulous now doesn't mean we came into this that way. I think that the sorority process is a great way to build leaders...perhaps we shouldn't be expecting them to cure cancer before we bid them.