[RACooper]

I have to agree with you...... it would be a lot better to promote ourselves to the community as a pre-existing group that is multicultural. But as you stated there are significant barriers to reaching some groups on campus - some students don't use english outside of the classroom, and some only socialize within their cultural group.

The current methods while somewhat successful unfortunately are slow in adapting to cultural change within the UofT community - and it is a similar problem experienced by the administration. Neither the greek system nor the administration reflect the current diversity of the student population. The administration's recruitment problem is mostly based on time - it takes roughly 10 years of instruction before someone becomes and associate professor or staff - so they are 10 years behind the curve. The greek system, no matter how we promote ourselves, or the recruitment methods we use, suffers from the simple fact that most new members are from personal contacts of existing members (friends or associates). If we currently do not have anyone in the cultural cliques on campus, it is extremely difficult for us to recruit from that group - they have to know us before they are comfortable with us.