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I actually like it that the greek life office person was this helpful. Usually they will set people up to go through recruitment no matter what their chances of getting a bid are. Here the guy said up front, 3/4s of the groups probably won't be able to consider you.
OP, I think you just have to ask yourself if you are interested in all the groups on your campus enough that if having a shot at 1 is good enough to encourage you to go through. I doubt you're going to be able to figure it out because I suspect this is one of those rules that even if there's no national or international GLO policy on it, the particularly chapters rules might be different. I'm guessing that the picture looks kind of bad for your membership. If 3/4 can't take married people, there's a chance that the campus culture is such that it's going to be hard to get a bid from the one.
As far as why groups would have this policy, I suspect it has to do with a time that most chapters were at campuses with really only traditional students and that it was assumed that a married woman's interests would be too different from other undergraduates. It was probably also assumed that other women's organizations served the needs of married women. And, I'll be honest, I think at a lot of campuses even today, social sororities and fraternities best serve the needs of single people and pretty young ones at that. A 25 year-old needs a home away from home in a totally different way than an 18 year-old away from home for the first time does.
If you've got a lot of non-traditional or returning students, then social GLO may offer something a little different and a married woman would probably get a lot more out of what a chapter has to offer.
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