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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.

I just wanted to make a clarification here that I never compared the two.
The main argument against having an AI forum is that anything that isn't on the GLO's website is ritual and shouldn't be discussed on GC.
I was merely stating a fact that details of how the bid-matching process works, I have never found, to be on any GLO's website, yet it is discussed in great detail on GC.

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.

I just want to clarify that i never said that AI's mainly recruit from the alumnae world. In fact, I haven't seen anyone post that yet.

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.

I never said it was the "wave of the future".

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.

I think you just made my point here. When you are telling a PNM that would otherwise be the type of women to sleep with every Tom, Dick and Harry and openly discuss her sexual conquests with anyone that will listen, you are actually encouraging her to not be herself and to hide information or else she won't get a bid. So on 'bid day' you get an image of a sister, and not the one you really got.

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.

I would probably have to say that if you joined a sorority as an AI, shouldn't you want to be a member that would have to participate? Otherwise, what would be the point? Obviously, you have to pay fees to join, a local alumnae chapter should never, ever AI someone who won't participate after initiation.

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?

When you say "Who's to say the information posted by anonymous internet users is valid anyway"...this could easily go for anyone that posts to GC. We just assume, if someone says that they are a member of Alpha Delta Pi, that they are, actually a member of ADiPi. Whenever an individual sorority members gives advice on the board, he or she is really speaking of how they do things at their school and at their chapter.

Another poster had an excellent comment if you limited your discussion on GC to what was easily found on the GLO's websites, that would have a severe impact of what you could discuss on GC.

I don't see anything wrong with asking general questions about AI membership requirements. All organizations have them. I would assume one would have to have a college degree, do they take graduate students, is their an age limit, does the sorority that they want to AI have to be at their alma mater, etc. These types of questions are so silly and general I can't imagine a National would "freak out" over them being discussed on GC.

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.

I think that this hits the nail on the head. If a "very tiny percentage" of posters that are members of a sorority post wanting to do away with the AI forum, how do we know that you speak for your national as a whole? We don't. I think if something was that important to a sorority, I could understand national not wanting to give credibility to GC, but you would think sorority members would be coming here by the hundreds.