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Originally Posted by 33girl
Stab in the dark:
Maybe it's because of the groups who don't require recs to pledge a woman or who are mainly at schools where recs aren't used? Like so it doesn't deter women from rushing at schools like that? As I said, just pulling that one out of the air.
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This does make sense, however, I guess my (poorly worded, apparantly) question more deals with letting the organizations, schools and chapters decide for themselves if recs are important. Those groups/schools that do place high emphasis on recs can honestly advertise as such. Those that don't give a flying flip about recs can say that as well.
In other words, let the emphasis be on honesty, instead of trying to change decades and decades of how chapters have dealt with this. Zillini is right. The NPC can do what it wants, but campus culture is going to dictate how recs/invites are handled. This only further hurts those same PNMs mentioned above who do not come from Greek families, or who come from regions where importance is not placed on recs.
I saw firsthand these women, who could have been assets to any chapter, get released after first round from virtually all ten houses on campus simply because they trusted our Greek Life website. There was absolutely nothing wrong with them except that they were naive to the system.
ETA: to further clarify, I do think that recs are a very helpful measure for PNMs in larger, fall recruitments, and would hate to see that factor be eliminated from the selection process. However, I just want to be able to give PNMs the honest head's up that they need to secure these.