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Diversity at UA houses

by: Hm

Curious peoples thoughts on sororities becoming more diverse (beyond race). I think it’s hard to claim sororities aren’t diverse when there already aren’t many POC, lower socio-economic status, liberal/progressive girls that go through rush to begin with. Also, rush is a personal experience and girls want to go where they fit in. People claim KAT and SK are diverse but really they’re just the more progressive sororities who don’t really fit one of the sorority girl molds. Why would they all of a sudden want to go a house where they wouldn’t fit in? Let’s not forget when Gphi tried this approach they were ridiculed and placed at the bottom of the barrel for years until they got a new house and rebranded. Once they started taking a different kind of girl, they were more respected and moved up. My point in that is that people call for sororities to expand they’re “type” to diversify but once they do, you’ll say they’re slipping or bad, or have a sisterhood divide. So what do sororities need to actually do different, if anything? Also, should fraternities (IMO who make no effort) be held accountable as well?

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#1  by: Myop    
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I think that’s your problem if you believe your sorority is really “slipping” or care enough that other people are saying that bc you are diversifying and being inclusive. In reality they’re talking about you bc y’all are willing to do what they aren’t for whatever reasons (probably alumnae will stop donating) so of course all they have to say is negative. It says a lot about them if they believe that and same goes for you.

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by: The issueFeb 1, 2022 12:38:08 PM

It’s not really the girls in the houses that I think care so much. It’s all the outsiders and you know for a fact if ZTA all of sudden started taking girls that go SK they’d be crucified. So what does that say about our community as a whole? KAT and SK get made fun of all the time and girls from even the “nice” sororities laugh and like the posts.

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#2  by: Changes   
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This is exactly why legacy courtesy invitations and recommendation letters are no longer required for many NPC sororities. For generations, these two long-standing procedural requirements were useful tools for membership selection, for both PNMs and chapters. But they became unwieldy and irrelevant barriers to the process in recent years. 1) Too many legacies coming through had taken away much of the chapters' self-determination in membership selection, as well as limiting opportunities for the PNMs, when every legacy got an automatic invitation and/or priority on bid lists at the expense of other PNMs. 2) So many PNMs coming through made acquiring and processing the associated mandatory recommendation letters an unwelcome burden on chapters and PNMs alike, so much so that recs became impersonal and meaningless for the most part and completely unattainable for some PNMs, with many chapters ignoring the requirement long ago. With these two roadblocks out of the way, chapters can focus more on selecting for best fit, and PNMs have greater accessibility to membership.

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