Hi--I have thought long and hard about what I wanted to say here. You see, my husband and I have 9 daughters--4 by birth and 5 nonwhite ones by adoption. I hope they will all pledge someday (so far only the oldest is in college and she has).
Yet I worry about what will happen to my other girls in rush because as a college prof and former Greek advisor, I've seen discrimination from black and white groups. I've heard white groups discuss how to cut a black girl without causing a problem and I've heard black groups laugh about a white girl in NPHC rush and call her a "whigger" (around here, a white who wants to be black).
I firmly believe that the last post from mgdzkm is right--when we choose (some non-Greeks would call it 'discriminate'), we must choose our members on the basis of good grades, initiative, school involvement, etc., and cut those people who are cheap, mean, you name it, based on that and not on their race. However, I don't like the idea of university personnel or other groups trying to deny us the right to select our members...you can probably remember, as I can, some awful people who came through rush whom you definitely did not want to wear your pin. I think the Supreme Court affirmed the right of private groups to choose their members with the recent decision about the Boy Scouts and gays--and God willing, we will all make wise and kind choices when we make our decisions in rush.
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