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I may have missed some of the nuances of the argument, but I just wanted to try to point something out:
Even at the schools where recommendations from alumnae or alumnae groups matter a lot, the active undergraduate members still vote according to the national guidelines for membership selection, as far as I know.
So any claims of "alumnae choosing the membership" are greatly exaggerated as far as I know.
I can see why who you were in high school or in your home town might seem like a lame consideration in joining an organization in college, to me it seems a little better to at least to have a little information about that rather than to base a lifelong membership decision on the couple of conversations that you might have had during recruitment or, at the most, a semester's worth of interaction on campus if rush is delayed or deferred.
So, while I generally hope undergraduate members still use their own judgment in selecting members (my goofy feelings about legacies aside), the alumnae are really just trying to provide a benefit to the PNMs and the chapters.
As far as the photos, I know that when you are trying to place someone that you think you know by name, a photo is often really helpful. The more images you've got of a girl the more likely it is that someone is going to say, "oh, yeah, I know her; she worked with my daughter's girl scout group," or whatever. If it's the alumnae groups asking for the photos, it may not be about making sure to the shuffle out all the fat girls. In my experience, the alumnae are much more concerned about character than appearance.
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