Too fat to recruit: or, DePauw, the Sequel

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Originally Posted by FSUZeta

"Move away from the computer."it was meant to be taken in jest. it was funny.

LoLz

Originally Posted by NutBrnHair

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Ha ha

How high can you count?

Originally Posted by pialpha92

I'm not referring to dress check, and I fail to see how assigning people to duties they are best at translates into blaming the 'fat people'. I don't see where that even applies. That is a completely different issue. There is difference between showing everyone at there best and telling people they aren't fit too be seen at all because they are overweight.

"rejection of someone based on physical appearance" referred to the current discussion of asking the overweight person to stay away. I broadened it a little to include that person that also may be asked to stay away because of they aren't considered pretty enough, whatever.

If you want a specific example to prove that it happens - I've known it to happen at a "non-competitive" campus firsthand. A member from a chapter that was doing well,made quota every fall, had high GPA etc was asked to 'stay in the kitchen'. She had a great personality, carried herself well, was well liked by her sisters - but was very overweight in a chapter that did not have other overweight members. She was told that she should not come out of the kitchen during the parties. She knew members of the AOII chapter I was working with and they were shocked that anyone would treat a sister that way (as was I).

It was not a competitive campus, an SEC campus or even a very greek campus - but it still happened all the same.

Whether the OP was telling of a real situation or making something up to stir up discussion doesn't matter. It happens - if it didn't people wouldn't be going to so much trouble to justify it. I happen to not agree with it, others think it is fine. To each their own.

I don't think anyone has offered any support to suggest that the example you gave or any like it is justified.

The only justification that I'd seen offered occurred within the very narrow example of "is it better for a struggling chapter to close than it is to hurt a members feeling?" And even that was totally hypothetical because no one even agreed it would work, much less be right.

Were you and your sisters able to do anything about this situation?