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Originally posted by DZTUBAGIRL
I know that my school is pretty small and recruitment isn't that harsh but I don't see much of the judging people by their looks. My sorority is known as the diverse sorority. We have all kinds of girls. We have the "pretty girls", the "big girls" and everything in between. This is why I wanted to be a DZ so much. Yes on my campus we have the "beautiful" sororities and the not so popular sororities but all in all I think that most of the sororities are equal.
The only problem that we have with the superficialness (don't know if that is a word), is people that come in and help with recruitment. I know that we have great consultants but some of them that we have had in the past have been horrible. It just makes me mad when a person who doesn't know us or our greek system walks in and tells us that we need to be more beautiful for recruitment. I can understand that we need to make a good impression but we also need to act like ourselves. They have actually said to us that we need to wear more makeup and such. It might be a shock to them but not everyone wears makeup. I think it makes us look fake when we are one way during the year and when recruitment comes around we are all trying to be supermodels...
Also it is a problem with these women coming in and only wanting the "cute girls". They aren't going to be in our chapter and they don't know what kinds of girls would mesh well with us. I hate to say it but a lot of the "pretty girls" that they pick for us have been worthless sisters and we never see them. I personally think that someone's personality is more important when I am looking at potential sisters but unfortunately not everyone feels this way.
Sorry I went on so long.
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Not long, it needed to be said. It's great to have help from consultants and/or alumnae but there's a difference between wanting the chapter to be its best and wanting the chapter to conform to an image it doesn't want - especially when the chapter is thriving as it is. I agree that it's great to have beautiful women and superinvolved women but if they're never around, it really doesn't matter how wonderful someone thought they were at rush.