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Originally Posted by 33girl
There are ways to "take one for the team" other than telling someone to not come to rush at all. From what I'm getting, the national consultant didn't even suggest kitchen duty or ask the women of the chapter what a good way to deal w/ this would be - she just said DON'T COME TO RUSH AT ALL.
And if this chapter IS ALREADY APPRECIABLY SMALLER THAN THE OTHERS, which apparently is the case, the rushees are going to notice that anyway. I'm sorry, but if anyone, national consultants or chapter officers or advisors, think the rushees won't notice this chapter has 80 girls while the other chapters have 200, they are too stupid to exist. That in and of itself is "different" enough to scare rushees away from the chapter, if we're operating on the principle that different = kiss of death.
Bottom line, if your chapter's numbers are a lot smaller than the other groups' to begin with, keeping the "image impaired" ladies away from rush isn't going to help your recruitment. You have to explain it in some way and it would be better to use your time thinking of a positive spin to put on that than figuring out who's skinny enough to rush and who is not.
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Great post.
I still fail to understand why after decades and decades of this no one will even lift one finger to change it...one person can't do it, but a lot could. Probably not drastically. And probably not even in ten years. But EVENTUALLY the Greek system could become something that those of us that have (and had at 18) a value system that doesn't involve judging someone on nothing but their appearance won't be ASHAMED of. Because let me tell you...it does embarass me to be lumped in with the SEC crowd. It's not one that I in general want to be associated with. I support the values of the founders, the ideals of the organizations...but I don't support the current atmosphere. At all. Because it, based on what I've seen and heard, does not mesh in any way with what the organizations were founded for.
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