Cutie Pie, I wish I had an answer to this. I know the answer isn't in taking everyone because you do get some rushees who are really slutty or known to be mean, etc., you get my drift...you can't blame the sororities for not wanting them. At the college where I teach, the locals' policy of accepting all rushees has had some real repercussions.
However, the post about IU has bothered me too since the day it was posted. I want to see as many girls get bids as possible and it breaks my heart to see rushees upset. I'll never forget my first day on the job as assistant advisor at a big campus and I had to sit in the room where all the girls got their returns--it was horrible. Pnguintrax has spoken of a new procedure in which quota can be based on the number of girls who go to prefs and that would be a big help.
Then again, one thing that rushees do to themselves is refuse to consider more than 1 or 2 sororities. I don't know how you go about changing entrenched opinions. The answer is not, however, forcing girls to go to parties that they don't want to attend and then penalizing them for not accepting bids they never wanted to accept in the first place by not letting them pledge for a year.
If anyone has any great solutions to this, I'd like to hear them!
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