[KappaKittyCat]

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I'm guilty of a few shameless plugs in my day. But now I'm doing my best not to add anything to the rush story threads unless I have something truly substantive to say. They're long enough as it is (in a good way)!

Look at all our signatures. There are only a few of us who do not have our letters somewhere in them. If a PNM scrolls back through older threads, she sees how joyfully each woman is welcomed into her new family by her sisters on GC. She realizes that, wherever she goes, we're going to be happy for her.

We don't know the situation on each campus. And now that I think about it, I feel very bad having made a "shameless plug" for Kappa, only to see the woman be cut the very next day. I feel like that's going against my sisters on that campus in some fundamental way. Yes, I'm disappointed that I'm not going to be able to welcome another Kappa into our "Gamma Chi" chapter. But honestly, they know better than I. See the story of "Mike the Pike" on the Weird Rush Stories thread and you'll know what I mean. It's not right for someone who's not in the situation to be second-guessing. And ultimately, I am very happy for the women who wind up wherever they are.

Like I said, I'm guilty of the very same thing. But I'm going to encourage everybody once again to think before you post! Consider the impact of your words. I for one would rather err on the side of caution than find sometime down the road that my seemingly innocuous "Shameless Plug" was the source of pain or confusion for one or more of our GC PNMs.

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