Is Rush really color blind???

[Tom Earp]

Yes, there is raceism depending on what part of the Country you are from and How deep seeded your school is!

VMI NO FEMALES! DA! Westpoint, No Females, DA!

Well that has changed.

I HAVE BEEN AROUND for a while and when you meet a person of different color religion, or gendar it is a little scary for both! Guess what they feel the same way!

Well that is until you get to know each other and find out, hey this is a real person.

We as a group of People have done more to cement a realationship than anyother site that I have ever seen!

We have our pissin and moanin contests, but guess what? Here we are working together as a unit!

OK, had a COP at the Duplex for the last 2 hrs so could not get up to speed, and am getting ready to fix dinner!

Well, he is a buddy of mine, well He Is Gay! Hay Hay!

I think the world of hime, but guess what I like Ladys!

God I love being amberdextrious with people!

Hell I am starving, roast beef, taters carrots and gravy for me sports fans!

[sigtau305]

Hello,phikappapsiman,

At Cleveland State University where I attend, Rushing Minorities is pretty much becoming the norm here on campus. we currently have two IFC organizations (Tau Kappa Epsilon and Sigma Tau Gamma, which I am a member) Two Panhel Organizations(Alpha Epsilon Phi and Theta Phi Alpha) and All nine orgainzations of the NPHC.

It's makes me glad to see that rush is becoming more open to all races on campus. I remember when I was pledging, a couple of members from a AA fraternity were not happy about my chosing sigtau over them. Also At the time, I was the second African-American to become a member at my chapter.

Now, It's a little bit more easier for minorities to be able to check out what the IFC And Panhell have to offer, which is very cool.

I have a uncle who is a member of Omega Psi Phi and a aunt who is a member of Sigma Gamma Rho and they couldn't believe I was part of a White fraternity, but they were happy for me.

While I don't expect the greek system to be totally perfect, I applaud them for making the effort to ensure everyone has a right to decide who they like to join.

[Tom Earp]

Garth, Kuddos to you! STG was started in West Central Mo. CMSU,and is growing as we all wish we were in these trying times.
One of the Oldest Chapters is at PSU Kansas Home of My Gorillas!

We all hope there is interaction between not only the races and religions but the Greek Organizations as well!

We as GC ers are doing more for relatiuonships among all greeks than anything I have ever seen and Please take a moment to pat yourselves on the backs!!!!!!

Until we get to know an individual, we are all a little leary in some form or another!

But hey, He/She may be very great people!

[ONElove]

Hi everyone..this is my first time posting on greek Chat and I believe it is the first time anyone from my sorority has posted as well. I am a sister of Theta Nu Xi, Multicultural Sorority Incorporated.
I am a black female who attends a very predominately white university where people are quite segregated. Some of this is by choice but a lot of the reason here has to do with the environment which is not very open to mixing.
Theta Nu Xi was brought to this campus in the spring of 2001 and I thank God every day that it has been. Every campus should have a multicultural sorority and fraternity so that people can see that you don't have to have the same color skin in order to be brothers and sisters in the eyes of greekdom.

Also I wanted to touch on what someone said about most of the people being Black or Latino in Multicultural Sororities and Fraternities. That may be true in cases where multicultural greek orgs have a race base (such as they were intially all latino or all asian) but in the case of most Multicultural orgs it is a beautiful mixture of all races. People really should stop thinking of Multicultural orgs as "MINORITY" groups because that is NOT by any means what they are. They are exactly what the name says...MULTICULTURAL! which includes all races even white people

Thanks for reading and if you would like to find out more about my sorority go to.... www.thetanuxi.org

[RedHotChiO]

I would like to think that rush is color blind, and at least from my side it was. This was my first year on the "other side of rush." I go to a pretty small liberal arts school, and the Greek system is pretty prevalent. All of the sororities are predominantly white, but so is my school. This year during recruitment, there were a couple of black girls that went through. On my side of rush, there were a couple of those girls that we wanted, some that we didn't. Some of them had personalities that meshed with our chapter, and some of them didn't fit in at all. Our decision wasn't based on color, though, it was more about personality. There was one of the black girls in particular that I wanted to join Chi Omega, so you can imagine my disappointment when our bid list was read out and her name was nowhere on that list. At first I blamed myself. I blamed my chapter. However, it turned out that all of the black girls (there were probably about five of them) had made a pact with each other to all join the same sorority. They figured that since they had a better chance of all getting into the other sorority together, they all preffed the other one. I was even more disappointed when I found that out. I talked to that girl on bid day, because she was in tears. She had actually wanted to pref Chi Omega, but she felt obligated to join the other since she had made a pact. You know at that point, what are you supposed to do? I did the Panhellenic thing and wished her the best of luck with her sorority. One thing that I did tell her was that I was so disappointed that she felt like she had to join the other sorority, because she was black. The issue of color never came up in our selection sessions. She's very happy in her other sorority now, so maybe things worked out for the best.
So my point is: while there may not be racism in rush, I do believe that there is pressure for a minority to join a predominantly white sorority. I'm Asian and I don't really feel that sense of pressure. If I was that exclusive I would pretty much just have to hang out with myself. IIn addition, I feel that if my chapter were to pick black girls simply for the sake of adding diversity to our chapter, that would be just as much of a problem. I hope that this adds an interesting perspective to this issue.

Much love,
RedHotChiO