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Originally posted by LatinaAlumna
Language has nothing to do with it. I can't believe I am reading this comment. You are saying that it is hard for NPC to recruit minority students because they don't speak English? I have never heard of this in my LIFE. I would say that most of the Latino, Asian, African American, etc. students at my university spoke English very well. What university do/did you attend where the minority students have such a widespread language problem that it affected your recruitment activities? We are not talking about the world population at large--we are talking about university women here. Again, language has nothing to do with women not joining NPC.
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Sorry but I have to step in and defend Taualumna....
Based on her perspective and greek experience language is most definately an issue when it comes to recruitment - in the enviroment that she is most familiar with.
Having been involved in both student politics and greek recruitment at the same campus I can attest to the difficulties in fully explaining aspects of student-life and greek-life to students that have English as a second or third language. I the case of our campus, a significant segment of students interested in getting involved in the university experience (basically any involvement in campus life other than studies) are first generation, or international students - and in many cases language does come up as not a barrier but rather a complication (terminology or even simple misunderstandings). It is significantly easier to recruit when you aren't struggling for words/terms to properly explain greek-life or educate someone about your chapter...
That all being said some of the more dedicated members of my chapter where Brothers that didn't have English as their native language - so I have been more than happy to take the extra time and effort invovled that may be needed with a PNM that is struggling with English.
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