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Old 06-18-2016, 09:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Titchou View Post
That's an exaggeration but large numbers of legacies can vary from campus to campus for individual groups. For example, DG was founded in Oxford, MS in 1873. We have many more legacies going thru at Ole Miss and State than we would want to pledge. Having a pledge class of 50% or more legacies can cause lack of diversity and not open membership up in new areas. I have not seen all the stats for these two chapters but I do know that they have had 40ish NMs in NM classes of 110 or so in the past. That's pretty legacy heavy.
Now that I completely understand, and to me it seems obvious. But then, I also realize my experience is colored by my introduction at a small private proud-of-not-being-like-everyone-else school in the 70s. (I had dinner the other night with a few chapter sisters, and we could actually remember only one legacy, ever, and a couple of others with DG ties but technically not legacies.)
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