Alabama recruitment fall-out

[33girl]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

There is always a reason why a member is selected. Pretending otherwise is naive.

Not advising, but spent my college career in a chapter that pretty much always COBed. And the reason why we offered women bids (including several minority women) was because we liked them and thought they'd both give something to the chapter AND get something from it. Not because of a certain trait they possessed, but who they were overall. If that makes me and my sisters naive, thank God we're naive.

What KDCat seemed to be saying that I objected to was "ask all your black friends to COB events and not your white friends. " If it takes COBing to get chapter members to make friends with people of another race, that's their failing as humans, not as sorority members.

[KDCat]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Not advising, but spent my college career in a chapter that pretty much always COBed. And the reason why we offered women bids (including several minority women) was because we liked them and thought they'd both give something to the chapter AND get something from it. Not because of a certain trait they possessed, but who they were overall. If that makes me and my sisters naive, thank God we're naive.

What KDCat seemed to be saying that I objected to was "ask all your black friends to COB events and not your white friends. " If it takes COBing to get chapter members to make friends with people of another race, that's their failing as humans, not as sorority members.

Nope. Not what I said.

It doesn't hurt to push your chapter members to to ask AA women to COB. If you don't think about recruiting diverse candidates, it often doesn't happen - not at work and not in sororities. That doesn't mean you don't include other candidates as well.