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And I hate to be the stickler over semantics, but if six black women stated interest in NPC recruitment, it's not exactly correct to say that there was no interest whatsoever.
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I agree with you. But let me explain just a little bit, so that the facts aren't taken out of context.
NPC sent out rush information to
every new freshman woman (and most first-year transfer students) enrolled at the University. Out of thousands of women, only 6 who responded were African-American. Less than half of the women who received this mailing responded to it, and even fewer actually went through NPC rush. I spoke to one of the African-American women who attended the Panhellenic weekend (only 2 of the 6 came to this event). She was disappointed because she thought that the NPHC sororities were going to be a part of that weekend (both the NPHC & NPC sororities often have their letters/pictures printed in the same rush materials).
I'm not trying to be "defensive" here, I just wanted to clarify how things were done.