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This thread has been very interesting to read. Several people have made comments about African Americans feeling pressue when they chose to join orgs outside of the NPHC. Well I can share an experience I had last year as a student at a large university in the south. A young AA male decided to rush with the NIC fraternities. The black students on campus didn't attempt to pressure him to drop but I will admit there was alot of whispering and questioning of his motives. Our reasons for whispering where not out of prejudice but because as students who have been here for more than a week we know how it is on this campus. Well to make a long story short this young man did not recieve a bid from one NIC fraternity on this campus. Well second semester rolls around and he decides to rush again. Again the whispering among African American students starts again. Not out of prejudice but out of bewilderment really about why this young man hasn't gotten the picture yet. Well during his attempt to rush a second time during spring semester of his freshman year he was jumped by a large group of me outside of a fraternity house one night. He was beaten pretty badly and ended up transferring at the end of the year. So again I would like to say that the "pressure" AA might give another AA student going through rush might not necessarily be out of prejudice but perhaps as a warning as to how the system truly works.
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