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Originally Posted by Alphagamuga
I got the impression that maybe Texas*Princess thought we just cast people out into the darkness for gaining five pounds back in the olden days of 1987. Actually, Texas*Princess, I didn't think you meant any harm at all, but I did want to reassure you that the values weren't that different back then.
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No that's not what I thought at all.
Actually this has nothing to do with weight or anything like that. I was talking about the way the "re org" was handled. (Casting people off in the middle of the semester - regardless if they were a size 10 or a minority, or really just not that into recruitment)
NPC sororities (from what I've noticed) like to keep all their bases covered a lot more now than they might have in the past. Third-party vendors at formals, gotta do everything by the "book" to make sure there are no risk-management issues, can't drink in letters, etc. etc... all for the sake of protecting our good name.
Which is why something like this (kicking the women out of their housing in the middle of the semester and yet late enough in the semester to make it a pain in the rear to have to find an apartment. I don't know about you, but back in D-town, if you didn't know where you were living next Fall by the time March or April rolled around, you were screwed) was really surprising.
You'd think a sorority like DZ would have some better sense and the foresight to see the repercussions of their actions because everything sororities have done recently seems to be to prevent PR-disasters like the one at hand.
And I'm not really sure what you mean by "running to Mom & Dad" with their problems, because on my old campus, a large portion of people I knew had their own jobs, payed their own rent and were for the most part self-suffecient. If my sorority kicked me out a few weeks before my finals, of course my parents are going to hear about it... not because I'm trying to be a whiney (*&#$ but because that's some major crap to have to deal with at a very crappy time in the semester.