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Originally Posted by Cheerio
I like the recommendation (in page 4 of story) for equal housing help from UA toward their traditionally black Greek organizations.
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See that actually bothered me some. There seems to be an implicit assumption there that what they refer to as "traditionally white organizations" are the standard that they should try to help other organizations reach. It almost sounds like "we want to help them be like us."
Do the NPHC orgs, which on most campuses don't have houses, want "chapter houses comparable to those of traditionally white organizations"? NPHC orgs typically have chapters that are much smaller than IFC or NPC orgs at Bama, and my sense is that they prefer those smaller chapters.* If I remember right AKA has a house on Sororoty Row at Bama, but I can imagine that some NPHC orgs might see maintaining "chapter houses comparable to those of traditionally white organizations" as a drain on resources that could be put toward other things that matter more to them, and as something that could require them to compromise on their preferred chapter culture.
I could be quite wrong—perhaps the NPHC orgs at Bama beyond AKA would like comparable chapter houses, and I'll gladly be corrected if I'm making unfounded assumptions. But I can't help but wonder if this is an example of missing the point completely on diversity. Instead of trying to fit NPHC orgs into an NPC/IFC mold, isn't diversity better served by working to eradicate the idea that the NPC/IFC way of doing Greek life is the standard by which to measure all Greek life?
* I say this coming from a fraternity that typically has smaller chapters—30 in a chapter would be really big for us. And while some of those chapters do have houses, that's not something we encourage nationally.