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Originally Posted by CloseMinded
I've never seen this post before or heard of Shirley, but if I had a chance to meet her I would say BRAVO!
I'M NOT SAYING GREEKS ARE MEAN, for the 2nd time. What I advocate in this post is simple. When you go into your voting process for your next recruitment, don't vote against someone because they depledged or left recruitment! I cannot think of a simpler way to phrase that! I'm not saying the GCers are going to solve this problem or are the only thing that needs to change. The root of the problem is what needs to change and that is allowing for these girls to not have a fair chance at being Greek. Rather than saying XYZ has a competitive Greek system, sisters should advocate to raise campus total, etc. so they can reach a wider pool of girls. We can't pride ourselves on rejecting PNMs, we need to pride ourselves on positively effecting young women through involvement in Greek Life.
I know Bama and Ole Miss have competitive recruitment processes. Without naming my school or organization, I will say that I go to a university with one of the most competitive Greek Life systems in the New England/Mid-Atlantic regions. I have done the whole, fill out recs, meet alumni, talk to advisors thing when I went through formal and informal recruitment (which isn't forgiving at all at my school!) and only received a bid after extremely unusual circumstances. I just think that WE need to keep an open mind as much as we encourage PNMs to do so.
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But of course since it happened to you, it can happen to anyone. No.
I'm not about to tell my sisters at JMU or Delaware how to select NMs...just as I would laugh hard in their faces if they told me how to select NMs at my school. Not only that, maybe Rita Rushee at JMU is someone I find charming as pie, but the sisters at JMU would hate her guts. Just because we're all sisters doesn't make us all the same personality type.
And as far as the red and the bolded...this has to be one of the dumbest things I've ever read on GC. Are you advocating chapters of 500, 600, 700 at schools like Alabama? Not that they couldn't fill them, I'm sure. We have chapters that size at SEC schools and the girls, advisors and rushees are all unhappy with them. You reach a point of diminishing returns.
Oh, and NE/Mid-Atlantic IS NOT SEC schools. It's just not. So quit pretending that Syracuse, Penn State, Penn, Lehigh, (help me out here peeps) is the same thing. Yes those schools have tough rushes, but they are tough for different reasons than rush at SEC schools are.