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Originally posted by Rudey
AGLOs are great. The orgs are one of the reasons that Greek life has increased if you ask me since they took guys and girls who most likely wouldn't have gone Greek, and provided that venue for them.
-Rudey
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I totally agree. I was one of those girls. I had always said that I would never join a sorority. Then one day, while I was waiting in line for coffee, this girl starts chatting me up and she invited me to her sorority's info session. She ended up becoming my big sis. The way I was at the time, I was very shy. I was not the type of person to go meet sorority members and educate myself about sororities. I was not the type of person that would go and sign up for formal recruitment. I held a lot of stereotypes about sorority girls, because I didn't know any. All it took was meeting one nice sorority girl for me to change my mind. If no one had approached me first and started talking to me, I would have never gone Greek. And almost every single girl in my chapter says the same thing. So to Taualumna, I don't believe that AGLO's or other cultural/ethnic-based GLO's are taking away from the diversity of NIC and NPC organizations.
From what I've seen, the Asian girls that come into college knowing that they want to join a sorority will go through NPC recruitment. We then have to educate and recruit from the pool of girls that have misconceptions about sororities or do not know about sororities at all. The reason I chose my sorority is because they actively recruited me. I felt like they wanted me and that they wanted to make a good impression on me. At the time, my beliefs on NPC sororites was that I would have to do all the work. I would be the one that would have to go sign up for recruitment. I would be the one that would have to try to impress the sorority members. It just felt like the NPC sororities didn't care and weren't working to get girls to sign up for recruitment, like an attitude of "well, if they really want to be an XYZ, they'll go find out about recruitment and they'll come find us.....we don't need to educate anyone about XYZ until they sign up for recruitment and come to our events......we don't need to try to get girls to sign up for recruitment because we already get so many girls and we don't need to make any actual effort". This was all before I learned that NPC has VERY strict rules about how the recruitment process is carried out. Now that I know a little bit more about it, I really like how the NPC system works to combat unfair/shady behavior between organizations (such as stealing another organization's PNM's or interfering with PNM's to keep them from going to another house).
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