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Originally Posted by ReachTheLimit
I have seen, with great detail, the bid matching process during formal recruitment, discussed by many members of man of the sororities on GC. Details on different schools, what types of girls they are looking for, who they aren't, putting girls in touch with local alumnae so they can get recommendation letters, everything.
I don't see anything THAT detailed being discussed with AI at all, and I have read these boards very thoroughly.
They seem to be limited to such questions as, "Does XYZ have AI? I'm really interested in that GLO.", "Do I contact the national or local chapter?", "If I previously turned down a bid, does that matter with AI?", "I got a call/letter/e-mail/ we have set up a meeting."....that sort of thing.
I am not in a sorority, so I don't know what the initiation rituals look like, but I highly suspect that having conversations answering questions that I listed above wouldn't exactly be classified information.
I just don't see the harm in discussing in generalities.
I haven't been around that long, but considering there appears to be thousands of people on Greek Chat and only about a half-dozen who keep expressing an interest to shut the AI forum down, if your nationals truly don't want AI discussed on GC...wouldn't the best way to support this is just not post in the AI forum?
Just another .02
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I think it has been mentioned before that RUSH and AI are two completely different things so to compare them is inaccurate.
Adpiucf made a wonderful point in some other thread that NPC sororities do not mainly recruit in the alumnae world. Recruitment is done at the collegiate level.
AI is not the "wave of the future" when it comes to recruitment - it is an exceptional circumstance in which a woman is offered membership because the alumnae organization pursued her due to outstanding community contributions/contributions to the professional world/contributions to the sorority.
It is one thing to tell a pnm where she can get recs, what is appropriate to wear, how NOT to behave, etc so that she can go into recruitment and find a mutual match in Sorority World. This information is not membership selection in any sorority. It's common sense. Don't go into Sorority Skit Night wearing a bikini and talking about how you slept with 65231265 guys in high school.
Furthermore, membership criteria is spelled out for pnms on most of the sororities websites or Greek Life websites. You can't have a 1.0 and expect to get invites from all the houses. You need to understand the financial implications of joining a sorority. You need to understand that a sorority will also take up some of your time. You need to understand that by joining a sorority, you will likely have to do philanthropic work. Once again, no membership selection top secret stuff here and this information is readily available on credible websites.
It is quite another thing to ask about the "requirements" of AI for sororities on an internet chat board, WHEN THAT INFORMATION IS NOT EVEN AVAILABLE ON THE HQ'S WEBSITES. I think that is the bit some people are just not getting.
If it's not on THEIR websites, why the hell should it be here? And who's the say the information posted by anonymous internet users is valid anyway?
It is nobody's business what my or other sorority's policies are on AI except OUR OWN.
And while there are thousands of registered users on GC, only a very tiny percentage of them even post on here to begin with. Most of the "regulars" are actually posting in this very thread