Now, keep in mind what I'm going to say isn't an indictment in any way of DZ - I've heard of practically every NPC group doing similar "membership reviews" and things like what happened at DePauw.
First off, choosing the women who want to "commit to recruitment" often means the women who want to commit to the type of member, and the number of members, the national organization wants. Not necessarily what the chapter wants or even what fits with the school. When someone comes in and basically says they want you to change from (random musical
example) Beyonce to Korn, for lack of a better analogy, you might just decide to run out the door because they have no clue what you are about.
But here's what kind of kills me about the whole deal. It seems like there were a lot of rumors going around the Greek community about the chapter because they were small and that they weren't supported as much as they could have been, but then the campus gets all up in arms that they weren't treated well by their national. Maybe if that support would have been there previously, the chapter wouldn't have gotten to the point that it had. I guess it's a case of I can say someone in my family is an asshat, but if anyone else says they're an asshat, I'll beat them up.
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