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Originally posted by ASUADPi
It was mentioned that sororities (NPC) tend to be 'white' and not 'multicultural'. I have a thing to say about that. Sororities cannot control who goes through rush, it's that simple.
At ASU this fall rush, I was helping out 'backstage' so to speak for my sorority. I mostly saw white girls rushing. Now my sisters can't control that, no house can.
Now, ASU has a strong network of MCGLO's. There are sororities and fraternities for Hispanics, African Americans, etc...
Just because we have those doesn't stop girls from rushing. My sorority at ASU would actually be considered quite diverse. You can't walk onto our campus and be 'oh that girls a so and so', like you can on some other campuses (and yes that statement is true).
I realize that SL 3 has stirred up feelings when it comes to race, but this subject is and will probably always be very touchy. I understand that the GLO is a MCGLO, but it doesn't mean this thread now has become about race.
Agree with me, disagree with me, just respect my opinion.
Brianna
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It's true that we can't control -- in a direct way -- who goes through NPC rush. But there is something about NPC sororities that doesn't attract many women of color, and we need to figure out why that is. Like you said, at many schools almost all the women going through NPC recruitment are white. A girl who isn't white might feel out of place in a situation where everyone else in her rush group is white and she might drop out. Other girls might not even check out NPC rush at all -- maybe because traditionally everyone in her family is an AKA, or because of the history of whites-only policies in NPC GLOs, or because they read about things that happen at certain schools and assume that that attitude is more prevalent than it is.
Nevertheless, whatever the reasons are, until we can start attracting more women of other races, the NPC will remain primarily white. But the NPC doesn't really seem to address the overwhelming "whiteness" of most of its sororities, so to many outsiders it looks like we don't think it's a problem and that we prefer the status quo.
I found a Tri Delta pledge manual from 1990 in our house and was looking through it. It was pretty similar to what we had used, until I got to the section on the history of Tri Delta. In the 1965-1975 section, it read somthing like "Various civil rights groups attacked sororities' rights to choose who they want as a member."
Now for all I know, they could be talking about men who thought sororities should turn co-ed -- but what it sounds like to anyone with a solid grasp on the history of that time is that, as late as 1990, Tri Delta was still pissed off that back in the day they had been forced to accept non-whites into their organization.
Now I'm glad that Tri Delta either realized that that passage came off differently than they intended it, or changed their ways in regards to discrimination -- just recently we were the first NPC organization to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, which in my opinion is fantastic. But many NPC members held similar viewpoints well into the 70s, 80s, 90s and even today. As it is, I'm not at all surprised that more women of color don't decide to join NPC organizations -- we still have a long way to go before many of them will feel entirely comfortable here.