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Just because the new posts brought this back to the top of the forum, I want to point out that some of the linked articles have some information that's pretty troubling for a lot of different reasons.
If you look into the follow up, most of what was reported was based on the accusations of one former member, and couldn't really be substantiated by the schools investigation. (The recreated dialog at the start of the Time article is particularly inflammatory seeing as at most the story could have had one source for it and no way of assessing her reliability.)
I have absolutely no insider information; I've just read the later press releases.
It's interesting to me, but rarely noted in the rush to single out the accusations against my former chapter, that the woman also participated in formal rush at 17 other chapters and didn't get a bid. Are we to conclude that one sorority discriminates on the basis of race, and the others were just a coincidence?
I find it peculiar to say the least that UGA doesn't have a fully racially integrated Greek system. It would seem to me that race must play a factor in the mutual selection process or this outcome would be unlikely.
I'd love to see my chapter rush some of the excellent black young women at UGA. I know they are out there; I taught some in high school, and nothing would make me happier than to write recs for them. But I've yet to have any that I know go through rush.
In recruitments with quota and chapter total, very few of the chapters have the option to recruit members who don't go through formal recruitment. Typically, chapters who COB or COR aren't regarded as the strongest chapters and because of this, they may be especially cautious, conservative, or even backwards about race and membership.
Again, I was long gone by 2000 when I think this case took place, and I don't know what took place in membership selection, even if I were disposed to violate ritual and blab to GreekChat. This is just my opinion and speculation.
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