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Selection
This was going to be a possible thread hijack too but then it didn't seem to fit into either of the two selection threads ("Controversy" and "Do you....") running concurrently which really piqued my interest. So I decided to just throw it in a new thread.
A prevailing view seems to be fraternities & sororities can not and generally do not discriminate on issues protected by law (ethnicity, religion etc). At least not openly.
But, that they may select upon factors like academic success, activeness on campus etc and also whether they want to basically hang out with their person (and ultimately be their brother/sister) - so long as they don't decide against it because of race etc.
It seems they can do this (select if they at the end of the day like the person) because the GLOs are SOCIAL organisations and you can't force someone to be friends with someone?
What's the situation with professional GLOs though, are they allowed to select in the same way as social GLOs apart from on gender or are they not allowed to select on whether they want to spend time with a person, not being social and only on academics, whether the pledge attended enough meetings etc?
And the other thing I wondered about was where people commented on how if race discrimination was alleged it was up to the person to prove it. Would the burden of proof really lie with the cut person and not the GLO?? There'd have to be evidence sure but would the fact no black/jewish/otherminority candidates had got in while people who weren't in the applicable minority did be enough? Is that another reason why some administrations are anti-Greek - a fear of discrimination lawsuits?
Just curious.
Decadnce.
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