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Originally posted by LatinaAlumna
To the original poster:
Where do you go to school, and are you a member of a greek letter organzation yourself? The reason I ask is because I personally have encountered many grad students working on greek life projects who are intentionally seeking to make broad negative generalizations about greeks, especially with regard to racial and ethnic relations. I'm not accusing you of this, but it does happen often. You might get a greater response if you offer up some information about yourself as well as the purpose for your project and line of questioning. Are you working on a thesis? If so, what specifically are you researching with regard to minority experiences in greek life?
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No problem. I'm a first-year M. Ed. College Student Affairs student at Azusa Pacific University. The project is for my Diversity in College Student Affairs class; our assignment is to design a workshop on a diversity topic. I want to present a mock "workshop" on what can be done to help eliminate racial tension or promote diversity in Greek Life. So no, it's not a thesis. I just want to present a workshop on diversity in Greek Life because it's interesting to me.
I was not in a sorority when I was an undergrad, but I have many friends who were and I went through rush myself. The purpose of my questions is not to "expose" what Greek Life "really is", but just to examine what might make Greek Life more welcoming to all students. (Not a study to see what can be done to get more non-whites to rush predominantly white GLOs, but just to present diversity issues in Greek Life in general).
I'm not attempting to present Greek Life in a negative way at all, but I do want to get a grasp on some of the racial tensions that occur in
some organizations in
some schools.
Hope that makes sense.
