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If you've read about it you'll find that they did it because they were convinced it was the right thing to do and they were encouraged by some in the machine to integrate to satisfy some critics. Remember, Gamma Phi has always taken more out of state girls who were open to more diversity and so they didn't have the same prejudices that some of the other houses had. Unfortunately, the machine shortly afterward bent over backward to punish them for their stand. So in a sense you're right -- it wasn't altruistic because the girl they pledged was amazing and they wanted her. But you're wrong that they did it to improve their status. At the time they were a mid tier house and before this site people didn't obsess about tiers. They did it with some assurance from some in the machine that it wouldn't hurt their swaps. Which of course it did big time. I wasn't here at the time, but I did just spend a few minutes with google trying to find out about the history of this incident and that's what I found out. Of course the machine and its minions are going to present this differently.