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Originally posted by Firehouse
... Instead of adding more new blood whose enthusiasm could energize the enttie system, they take the attitude that, well, if a woman doesn't want to join the best houses, she can always join the weakest. Panhellenic Love and all that.
...Plenty of women want to pledge; they just don't want to pledge a weak house. ...
Carnation's criticizm is on target. Not only are women going bidless, but a lot of really top-qulity women don't even go through rush because the top sororities won't take anyone who's not a freshman.
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YES. I get so sick of hearing about chapters who talk about other chapters during recruitment. Why does ABC need to talk about XYZ to the PNMs at their party? I know that everyone claims to endorse Panhellenic love and unity, etc., but we all know it's just not happening.
Dirty rushing needs to stop. PERIOD.
Also -- if the PNMs could just open their minds a tiny little bit more, they would realize that it's okay to not be in the top chapter. If they truly desired to be Greek, then they would be willing to step into a chapter with a not so great reputation and work to turn that chapter around. I'm not saying that PNMs should settle for a group where they know they wouldn't fit in, but let's face it -- PNMs are dropping chapters they have incorrectly heard are going to close or have low numbers or are at the bottom of the food chain simply because they are concerned with reputation. If we threw reputation out the window, we wouldn't have this problem.