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More than that, the organizations that banned sweethearts most likely did so on some sort of a risk assessment basis, similar to their banning of pledging. I know women who were sweethearts in the 60s and 80s and their experience shows that sweetheartdom has changed in terms of the meaning and stigma. When it started changing may depend on the campus because my family member who pledged a BGLO frat in the 1950s had already had an unfavorable opinion of sweethearts as submissive and objectified.

We know why the Iotas didn't ban the along with the other NPHC orgs. But my opinion for why the Iotas still haven't banned them is that Iota is still relatively small and able to self-regulate pretty well. So on that end, perhaps most of the chapters, and the organization as a whole, has not experienced the risk associated with sweethearts so feels no need to ban them. Our risk assessments and ways of governing ourselves will always vary. This is another reason why the NPHC can't regulate our organizations as if we all have to be doing the same things at the same time.