[FuzzieAlum]

Hmmm ...

I agree with most folks here that the AI forum is not a very good idea. But I can't bring myself to agree with the idea that all membership selection information is ritual. I can go to practically any NPC national site and see that to join as a collegiate someone must be a) female and b) a full-time student c) with a certain GPA. Now how Alpha Xi Delta chooses who to invite to a pref party or who to give a bid to is private. But I have no problem telling you that there is a minimum GPA, and if any other sorority doesn't want people to know they have a minimum GPA too, they're not doing a very good job of keeping it secret.

I guess what I'm trying to say is there are enough good reasons not to have an AI forum that we don't have to stretch for them.

The way I see it, what benefit does the AI forum provide? As far as I can tell, it is mostly of aid to sorority shoppers. I don't think this a good enough benefit-cost ratio for a site that supports Greek life. To the extent that NPC sororities (or for that matter any other GLOs) want to make alumnae initiation public, they have other ways to do it, and for the most part they don't choose to publicize it widely. As Greeks, it behooves us to respect what our own and other organizations choose to make public - there is a degree of information between "secret" and "totally public." NPHC groups express this so well when they talk about "discretion." That's what the AI board seems to have lost.