[Kevin]

Lia, I'll ignore the hypocrisy in your post for my reply. You came here wanting an answer and I'll give you mine. Of course, this is how I feel, and it in no way reflects on anyone from any other Greek organization, including my own.

Yes, some of our chapters choose to excercise certain criteria for membership. There are certain clauses and rules within each organization that are setup to keep this sort of thing from happening. For example, I think basically all of us now have clauses in our governing documents that forbid racial discrimination (as opposed to the ones we had before the late 60's which required racial discrimination). I will admit, however, that many of these types of steps are more symbollic than anything else. And yes, there is some discrimination that does occur.

Most of our organizations require a vote by existing members for anyone to be voted in as a new member. My organization, for example, requires a unanimous vote for each new member twice. Why do people fail in these votes? All sorts of reasons. We have brothers of other races, we have brothers of all sorts of political backgrounds, basicallly all the stuff you mentioned. Why do we not vote someone in? For a variety of reasons. Could your listed reasons be something contributing? Maybe, we'll never know. A unanimous vote can be a tricky thing to pass -- although most do.

I'd say the most common reasons someone wouldn't make it in my chapter would include things like: Not a team player, got into a fight with an initiate, didn't show up for new member functions, lack of respect for alums, someone doesn't like the cut of their jib (Simpsons reference), etc.

Do some chapters do exactly what you suspect them of? No doubt! Does that mean you get to judge us all as being KKK youth groups? I don't think that's fair. I think you come off as a fairly intelligent individual, can you tell me what made you decide that about our organizations?