Is it time to change who we think of as legacies?

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by adpiucf

A policy or a form are public knowledge; the goings-on specific to how a chapter conducts MS on a specific person is not.

Yeah, and I'm sorry if I was asking for too much earlier. It's just that aspect that makes figuring out how to reform any policies really hard. It's either lame FOAF stories or divulged MS that one is basing the info. on.

I don't mean I need or want to know anything particularly, because I don't even have a real dog in this fight with either a legacy or a chapter that I'm advising, but without a lot of insight into how and why legacies are getting cut, it's hard to know if the policies are working well.

ETA: It's kind of interesting that it's only the legacies who seem to be cut for nebulous or (what people who know the legacy suspect are very) superficial reasons that you ever hear about with legacy policies complaints. When the people who aren't in MS find out that a legacy who they know has a 2.1 gets cut or who has a terrible hometown reputation or zero personality has gotten cut, and I think alumnae do realize and know these things even if the mom doesn't, does that ever become a big deal? It's only the idea that we use terms like "fit" that suggest to some it wasn't for a good reason. Maybe a policy that requires the chapter to list a specific reason would be the best policy of all. I don't even mean that they would have to tell the mom or the sister, just that they would have to own up to IHQ that they cut the legacy of a devoted member because of her appearance.