[LOVEinZTA]

Your aggie friends are dyslexic. It's UT, Texas, or "The University of Texas at Austin."

UTA = Arlington
UTSA = San Antonio
UTEP = El Paso
UTT = Tyler

Any branch school gets letters added.

As far as the ridiculous claims, attacks, and defenses people are making about asking for pictures and cut throat rush, each chapter has had to come up with some way of picking 45 girls out of a group of 800+ absolutely amazing PNMs. Any information we can get about them through recs and resumes is wonderful, but when you're trying to get a chapter of 100+ members to remember legacies and rush crushes and pnms that you've fallen in love with, just a name (and by the way, there's around 80 alex's, 50 lauren's, 60 sarah's etc. that go through every year) and a picture of half of a girl's face because her hair's in the way aren't going to cut it. I'm glad not having individual pictures sent in works at your school, but trust me, it wouldn't work well here.

They ask for multiple pictures for the same reason chapters make posters and name chants and whatever else - to have another way to identify everyone and get members to know girls. Personally, I don't really care if it's full length, half length, head shot or whatever - I didn't think twice when I was asked for a full length picture of myself. I think you're reading way too much into it trying to find a "message" that's not there.

And yes, I'm short and was paired with a few really tall members of chapters when I went through rush and I personally felt really awkward trying to talk to someone a foot taller than me. Both PNMs and chapters have to make really difficult cuts during recruitment, and we all know that PNMs sometimes cut for really stupid reasons. We don't want "the girls I've been paired with were awkwardly tall compared to me" to be a reason someone cuts us so yes, it is taken in to consideration.