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Originally Posted by barnard1897
When you consider the fact that some small Greek systems (say, 100 or fewer PNMs) across the country have quotas of 30, it is a travesty that some of the IU chapters take that same small number for their PNM classes, turning away hundreds of great women in the process.
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If a system with 100 or fewer PNMs has a quota of 30, that means there are only 3 sororities. Many women would not like that situation. It also often means (Tom Earp brought this up re his campus and he wasn't wrong) that the groups who are there have been there forEVer and a new group has an exceptionally hard time coming on campus.
Honestly, I don't see this as a "travesty." That's a bit hyperbolic. Every chapter/organization has the right to choose members as they see fit. If a group on a Q/T system chooses to take under quota or under total, as long as their HQ oks it, that IS their prerogative. I mean if KKG at LSU wants to take 10 women in the next rush, that's up to them. If IU was such a ginormous problem and a threat to Greek life as we know it, all the national groups who are there would have gotten together a while ago and put out the word to their IU chapters that they MUST change to Q/T and their Panhel rep MUST vote that way.
I'm just boiling it down to this, and maybe I'm putting it on too personal a level, but whatever: I don't want my sorority going to a campus that doesn't really want it there, whether it's this situation, whether it's locals being forced against their will to go national or die out, whether it's a wrongminded Greek advisor pushing it through. Mine is one of the groups that's not there, so we could be impacted by this and I don't want the impact to be a negative one because it could harm us across the board. It's well and good to say "yay, expansion, change it up!" when it's really not going to affect you. It's kind of like the people who were giant AI cheerleaders when their orgs did AI as often as Halley's Comet comes by.
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