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The company promotes the policy by recruiting from overwhelmingly white fraternities and sororities, and producing catalogs and store promotional materials with mostly white models, according to the lawsuit.
I read a similar article this morning which was worded closer to what you said. This statement also came at the end.
One moment they are described as "upscale" and then they say
"geared to college crowd". Those two statemnts don't always go hand in hand.
I'm mixed about this because I do see the need to keep hiring practices in check. Yet, maybe it's the "Republican" in me that says a company should hire who they want to hire and anyone not liking it can choose not to shop there. On the other side, you have a situation like EXXON where only whites were promoted regardless of ability.
I do think it's kind of funny they made a point about fraternities and sororities, yet I think one of the fraternities does dominate the employees at A&F in Baton Rouge. In Houston, the SXs were all over the popular restaurants. Steak and Ale and Strawberry Patch were almost exclusive in their hiring. If a manager KNOWS the emplyees through an affiliation, is that so wrong? He is hiring people he can trust and enjoy working with. That in turn makes the whole environment "fun" which will be apparant to the clientel. Not to mention draw in more business. Its was all about the atmosphere.
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