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Originally Posted by violetpretty
Maybe not "work harder" but just meet in different places other than mixers. Agreed that top tier and low tier chapters often do not have mixers together, but you can meet someone in class, or through some inter-Greek activity like Homecoming/Greek Week committee, IFC/PHA collaborations, Order of Omega, lobbying for the Greek Housing bill (ok only in DC), etc. All of these avenues are "tier-blind".
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One might think that, but I'm not sure it's true. If tiers are a well known aspect of Greek life, events that really should be all Greek or Inter-Greek don't end up that way.*
It's true that you can meet people other places than mixers, and I think most people do. But you don't have to be Greek for that either.
I'm not trying to defend tiers in any way. But I don't think we can wish away their effects either. Once there are established social networks between certain groups and their members, those networks don't necessarily disappear or cease to matter at other events. Again, it's not a formal, rule based thing, but if 20 of your sorority sister are dating guys at XYZ, it's easier to you to meet other XYZs than it is for the girl who doesn't have those other social connections.
*I don't mean to make too big a thing of getting to meet certain people in top-tiered groups. It's kind of silly. But if your looking for an improvement in your social life, it's might be a common thing for an 18 year old to consider.
ETA: UGA in the 1990s may been especially bad about not really mixing as a Greek system. There was no method of formal exclusion, but while you might have paired with a group for Homecoming or a Greek week event, you didn't necessarily interact with any other groups as part of the festivities, or at least that was my experience but I was kind of weird townie-Greek hybrid aspirant, so I wasn't working my fraternity guy connections as much as I guess a person could have.
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