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I am grateful to Shadokat for raising this issue. I've been literally cringing through some of the threads (FSU and FIT most recently, but some in the past as well) not only because of the "ABC group wouldn't be as successful here" comments, which are really bad, but also because of the comments that sounded a bit like "They should pick my group because of this and this and this...." (and BTW I'm not saying that no Alpha Xi Delta has ever made those types of comments). Felix Unger or not, I "assume" that collegians from the campuses in question read these threads, and it's almost like one of us posting to a PNM in the middle of formal recruitment that she should pledge our particular group at her campus because we have X, Y and Z to offer, and/or disregard another group because they don't. Very uncomfortable. All our organizations are so wonderful, and they all put so much thought and effort into extension -- we should leave it to our extension teams and the collegians to sort things out. IMHO, we can and should express our happiness or sadness in general terms when groups get selected from one level to the next, but to be getting into the speculative weeds about ability to provide alum support, procure housing, get over past gossip or reputations, etc. is just inappropriate and probably does cause needless damage.
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