Flip-flops

[minDyG]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Sometimes I think they're just trying to weed people out who don't know what the real scoop is.

That's part of the point of my question. How is that in any way fair? I came from a really small town and knew NOTHING about Greek Life before I went through (informal) recruitment...but had I been one of the PNMs who just read the FAQ on the website and didn't know any better, I may have gotten cut from every house! How can a campus Panhellenic rationalize letting awesome girls slip through the cracks like that just because they want to keep their website PC? Why not just put a disclaimer that says something along the lines of, "Chapters may cut girls for any number of reasons, among those may be appearance, etc."? I just don't see what harm that would do.

[SWTXBelle]

When you see this thread name, do you start singing . . (and doing the hand motions - flip flop!)

We are the Gamma Phi Betas
We'd like to tell you
We are so glad you're here.
We're sisters ever true (flip flop!)
Friendships for me and for you (flip flop!)
We'd like to take this time (flip flop)
to welcome you here!
Gam-ma Phi Beta, Gam-ma Phi Beta, Gam-ma Phi Beta girls!

[SoCalGirl]

Originally Posted by minDyG

That's part of the point of my question. How is that in any way fair? I came from a really small town and knew NOTHING about Greek Life before I went through (informal) recruitment...but had I been one of the PNMs who just read the FAQ on the website and didn't know any better, I may have gotten cut from every house! How can a campus Panhellenic rationalize letting awesome girls slip through the cracks like that just because they want to keep their website PC? Why not just put a disclaimer that says something along the lines of, "Chapters may cut girls for any number of reasons, among those may be appearance, etc."? I just don't see what harm that would do.

1) By certain schools/chapters criteria you're not awesome unless you were born and bred to be in a sorority. So you would already know what to wear.

2) If a school put that kind of disclaimer in print the chapters would get mad that they were being put in a negative/superficial light. Even if it can be true at times.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by minDyG

That's part of the point of my question. How is that in any way fair?

It's not. It's one of the things I will never understand about some competitive recruitments. I don't get why they would say in their recruitment books that something is appropriate to wear when it's really not.

If anything, I think there should at least be a disclaimer saying something like "This is the attire suggested by Panhellenic, however many PNMs choose to wear something dressier for this round."

[dgdramadawg]

Originally Posted by minDyG

Why not just put a disclaimer that says something along the lines of, "Chapters may cut girls for any number of reasons, among those may be appearance, etc."? I just don't see what harm that would do.

The point is that we aren't supposed to cut girls based on appearance. We're supposed to seem inclusive, even though image cuts happen. It's like the rec thing: we aren't supposed to cut girls for not having recs because we should be getting them ourselves... but it happens.

Originally Posted by minDyG

I may have gotten cut from every house!

Liar. You are way too cute for that. I would have loved you despite your flip flops and I would have found you a rec.