Too fat to recruit: or, DePauw, the Sequel

[dgdramadawg]

I haven't read all of the posts in this thread, so I may be repeating someone:

This thread refers to a large school with a competitive recruitment. When I think of that sort of school, I think of recruitments like Ole Miss, Alabama, UGA, LSU, etc. Let's face it: the grand majority of PNMs at these schools do not want to join a chapter that may brand them with a negative reputation (the "fat" house, for example). This doesn't make them bad people; most people would rather not be known as "fat." If this young lady is a member of a house on a competitive campus, clearly she has been through recruitment... she must know how being the "fat" house can hurt a chapter's return numbers. She MUST be aware that her house is a small house for a reason.

I noticed that some posts argued something along the lines of "Does being overweight make a girl a bad rusher?" No, but rush is a superficial process on both sides. If a PNM meets 80 women over the course of a whirlwind day one, will she remember the funny story the XYZ told her? Maybe. But she'll be more likely to remember if a woman looks very different from the rest of the women she meets. It doesn't make her a bad rusher. It's just the way things are. Yeah, it sucks. But we can't pretend that recruitment isn't superficial.

I wonder if the young lady in question's recruitment advisor asked her not to participate actively in recruiting rather than asking her to drop weight before recruitment? It seems odd that she would just be asked to "stay away" without any prior conversations about it.