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Originally Posted by violetpretty
Pardon my lane swerve, but I'm curious as to why there is this perception. I am assuming that emphasizing a brother is a "spring" means that he got in through the back door? I always thought fraternities were not subject to total/quota and aren't pressured to be at a certain number, so every brother is wanted and not taken for the sake of numbers. Or is this off?
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I should've added the caveat that it depends on the size of the house, but in general this idea holds true for the houses that are over a 90 members. (which would probably mean over half of the houses at UofA)
It's a combination of a perceived "back door", and assumptions that you weren't full bore enough about Greek life to go in through the Fall, small pledge class numbers, and the thought that part of the reason the Spring class was taken is simply to have pledge drivers/a clean house (manual labor in general). I don't think most houses would take spring pledges except that we need designated drivers during the Spring, as well as party marshalls and the like.
The quality of the spring classes also tends to be not as good as the Fall, which compounds it.
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