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Originally Posted by mlanderson
💯 the chapter was full of beautiful diverse women and but many PNMs would not go there because of the campus’s perception. The local Panhellenic did not do much to help break that culture. The house was beautiful but sadly it will go to someone else. This makes me so angry. There is no shortage of people who wanted to join there.
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Six of my kids and many more of their friends have gone there or graduated from there. The problem was no different from that of the so-called "most struggling" sororities on many campuses. PNMs didn't avoid them because they had women of color; several sororities there do. They avoided them because they felt their women were the ones that no one else would take--the ones with low GPAs, the awkward ones, the very overweight ones, the "unusual" ones. Plus it didn't help that a lot of DPhiEs dropped and spread it all around about how they had had a subpar experience. A whole lot.
Now note that this isn't my judgement; I have watched this unfold for years and alums of various groups in the state have talked about the problems. I feel that the final nail in the coffin was when Panhellenic on campus called a new sorority to colonize (I hear they did it without publicizing it to other groups) right in the middle of DPhiE's troubles.
But to blame it on racism--no. We Greeks in Georgia have heard about this for many years.
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