[pialpha92]

I have read this entire thread - I think my original post is around page 8...

I still maintain that this happening is not exclusive to struggling chapters. It is not exclusive to competitive campuses. It is not exclusive to the SEC. It happens far to often than I would probably care to know.

I think it is sad that it happens at all. You can come up with whatever justification you want for it happening, but that does not make it any more ok. It does not have to happen.

Most of the discussion seems to keep focusing on the poor struggling chapter at a competitive school that is trying to compete. What about when the not-struggling chapter does it too? They don't have the 'fat girls' reputation. They obviously like those member enough to have offered them a bid in the first place and allowed them to stay an active member. If the member is good enough to be in the chapter the entire rest of the year and no one has a problem with that - why suddenly are the too unsightly when it comes to recruitment?

This is different than they aren't a good rusher, can't sing or dance to be in the skit, etc. There are ways to assign those people to other areas without insulting them. Per the OP - this is where we are talking about a purely superficial rejection of someone based on physical appearance (whatever that may be).

That is something that I would never consider to be appropriate, either in the years that my chapter struggled or in the years that it didn't. Not everyone feels that way, but coming up with what you consider a 'good reason' for it does not make it any more right.