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Originally Posted by 33girl
I'm glad that they included the statement from NPC saying this wasn't a conference decision, but one agreed upon by individual chapters, since the university president apparently didn't understand that.
ETA: this isn't a "recruitment activity. " Recruitment is over. That statement was originally against women wearing letters, being rush hostesses, etc. Flipping the script isn't cool.
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And if they want to flip it, they need to make a blanket statement/restriction across all campuses. Fraternities having bid night parties (and inviting women, sorority or otherwise) was the norm on my campus, and I'm sure it's the same elsewhere. Heck, I've been to ones where they even invited non-fraternity guys, and it was a low key, close friends only kind of thing. How can you restrict your sisters from hanging out with their friends?
And quite frankly, I think this is perpetuating the stereotype that Greek men are drunk rapists. If even the sorority women are banned from hanging out with fraternity men, why would people think they're anything except belligerent sex-crazed animals?
The school has made great strides to ensure that Greek social events are monitored and safe. Over the past couple months, each organization on campus has been cooperative, and they are very aware of the potential dangers in partying/drinking with no oversight. Our national organizations need to trust that they have learned something from all of this. No one is going to be 100% safe from a terrible incident, but if you can't show that you trust your members to use their own judgment and make their own decisions, then you're headed down a slippery slope.
And as far as I know, no other student organization on campus is doing this or has agreed to follow these same rules. So what happens when sisters are told that they can't hang out with the fraternities, but some of them go to a party with the basketball team and they're drugged, or raped, or any other unimaginable thing that could happen? Ironically, it's now probably safer for the sorority women to go to fraternity parties.