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Thanks PM_Mama00. Our greek system is very different now than it was even just 2 or 3 years ago. our greek leaders are trying to change things for the positive for greek life, especially working with the campus administration. ive sat down with our campus pres and she is all for supporting greeks, she just needs to know what we need and want her to do. but she also has a responsibility to enforce rules and protect the students and the administration can only work with us as much as we are willing to work with them.
i personally am all for deferred rush, its fine for me. some women may not be ready to be leaders in my group until later in college and if a person can't join as a 1st semester freshman and loses interest before the 2nd semester, they prolly would not have been a very dedicated member anyway. i see alot of groups trying to get freshman right away to pull them in (using partying and guaranteed friendships before they know where to party or have time to make new friends at the school). if this is all we have to offer, then we are screwed. we should be able to appeal to students as much their second semester or after as we do in the 1st weeks of their college careers, if we are really as unique and beneficial as we all say.
also, MU is working on a system that would allow groups that are excelling in the areas of academics, education, risk management, service, and invollvement on campus to take first semester freshmen. Size and quotas are not a factor. This way groups that are doing things well (the way the founders wanted us to) will be rewarded instead of everyone being punished for the actions of a few. In the long run, this will kind of 'weed out' the groups that arent doing what they should or force them to start following the rules and being a benefit to the campus community.
and college is about learning...about learning so we can make it in the real world. and im sorry, but if this was the case of an employer telling his employee that the employee's department should not take new workers directly out of college for whatever reason and the other departments could, i don't think the employee would defy his boss and take them anyway or "fight the man." he would get fired if he did, probably. while it is a different situation, you have to look at it from different perspectives. colleges and students are changing, things are different than they were in the 80s and early 90s. the world is changing around us, why arent greek organizations? (and i don't mean rituals and stuff, i just mean the way we run stuff, approach recruitment, etc.).
i also agree that men and women have different mentalities and opinions on rush and competition. i feel the women see more of the commmunity in the fact that if one group sucks, we all look like we suck. altho, women can be just as vicious when it comes to recruiting/trying to get the same girls. we just have to realize that each group has something different to offer and that should be the selling point for them and should attract different types of people, so we are all not going for all the same people.
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