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Originally posted by Jill1228
If it is said, "the reason minority women are not in our GLOs is because they don't sign up for rush". I wonder why?????
Unfortunately in some schools they are not exactly made to feel welcome!
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I definately agree! All the articles mentioned that the woman dropped out of rush after a few days because she felt uncomfortable.
The TIME article also mentioned how minority women also ended up dropping out of their chapters because they didn't feel comfortable and because of certain things that had happened within their chapter that had racial tones.
From the TIME article:
http://www.time.com/time/education/a...,59389,00.html
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Another student, Alana Young, a Filipino American, says she left the sorority in 1998 because of racist attitudes. She overheard a sister say she had been taught that "n_____s work in the house and Mexicans work in the yard." Young says she saw a Mexican-American member of the sorority leave a meeting in tears after the sisters overruled her objection to putting a Confederate flag on a T-shirt. Young finally quit after sorority members criticized her for giving her phone number to a black football player.
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Like Kristin AGD mentioned, I think the issue has to do more with individual school's chapters and not so much the overall organization.
I'm almost certain all sororities & fraternities have some kind of anti-discriminatory clauses, but some chapters might discriminate more so than others. Like for example the XY chapter of ABC might be more picky about grades, looks, or whatever more so than the CD chapter of ABC is. And it is probably because the XY chapter is probably at a more cut-throat school than CD is.
(sorry if all the alphabets are confusing, I'm just trying to make an example
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