iu greek life as a whole

Every house has the right to do as they want in regards to their nationals. Do not single a chapter out!!!!!! You do not know their situation!!!!!!!!! In the real world businesses should not be forced to hire everyone!!!!!! That's life. Yes there are problems with the system but don't you dare single a house out. It was two houses and don't use them to blame!!!!! I see you!!!!!!!! Panhel love!

You can do what you want, and people can criticize it. It's called free speech.

Calm down sister. Yes, there were two chapters who didn't take 50 and one of them did COB to 50+. There was one chapter who deliberately chose to take less than 50. All other chapters who did not take 50 (other than the one) wanted to take 50 and eventually COBed to 50. So before you get your panties all bunched up, go ask your Panhel rep for the recruitment report from last year. It will confirm that ONE chapter did not take 50 in the end. If you can't read the Panhel report, I am sure someone in your chapter can analyze it for you.

PS...A college students should be able to write and express her opinion without a excessive exclamation marks. It doesn't make your point more emphatic, it only shows poor writing skills. As the post below you says, everyone is entitled to free speech. I am ok with us disagreeing. I don't need anyone's approval. Your opinion of that ONE house is yours, and my opinion of it is mine. Neither of us will change the others' mind. So be it.

All the so-called "lower" tier sororities took 50 plus girls so what you're saying makes absolutely NO sense. The ONLY answer is for the campus to switch to a total quota system instead of each sets their own. You know the system that works for the rest of the country that we are too good for. Total pnms signing cards/23 chapters = number of bids given out. Would be 70-80 most years maybe more NOT 50

Maybe the houses don't have room for that many girls like the rest of the nation. And maybe girls don't want to be forced to live out just so everyone gets to be in a house!!!!! Also they want to know their sisters and a smaller pledge class insures that!!! In the real world it isn't always how you want. Hard lesson to learn. so just because you want to be in the Greek system doesn't mean you get to do it. Sounds harsh but that's real life. I am not guaranteed a job just because I demand it. Life is one big competition. Other schools have their way and we have ours. IU keeps adding houses so they're trying to accommodate. Just makes me mad that the houses are to blame. We'd love to take more but no room!!!!!

We have more houses than any other campus and plenty of campuses take more PNMs than us. And on top of that we treat those houses like they're second class - call them irrelevant, weird, etc. IU sororities are only adding more houses because then they can keep doing what they want instead of what's good for the campus as a whole. No wonder GDIs hate Greeks so much - because Greeks hate Greeks that aren't them.

I didn't know anyone in my house and I got a bid. My best friend knew people and didn't get a bid but some how it worked for me and not her. Don't know why!. It's not right but she is maybe trying again this year. She's mature and not letting it be a problem in her life. Life ain't fair and Greek life isn't everything. She's happy in an apartment this year! You sound like that's all you care about! So you're the one with the problem about Greek life.

I think it's great that your friend is handling it well. Maybe it wasn't that important to her. A very good friend of mine had a near perfect recruitment, went to 3 prefs and also did not get a bid. If I'm being honest, she was a better candidate than me and I got in. She transferred to another Big 10 school and got into her first choice as a sophomore. She left because being a part of a sorority was that important to her and she was embarrassed and hurt by so many greek men calling women like her rejects and losers. Many of them just assumed she was in a sorority when they said it. it worked out for her and I miss her, but I'm happy for her.

Agree the majority of sorority girls are very nice! So you hate sorority girls because you aren't one. That's stupid why care about them if you hate them! Sounds mature. Good luck in the real world. Why are you on this site. This proves the majority of the comments are from girls NOT in sororities trying to cause trouble between sororities. Let it go. IU is too big to worry about this. Grow up!

The sad thing is that I am one. Maybe i need to reevaluate.

I'm a sorority woman and I'm the first to admit that the sororities treat each other worse than any GDI.

I hear this every year. Besides min of 50 members this year, I see nothing else changing. Sororities don't care enough to change, although I don't know why a 21 year old senior would want to live in a dry sorority house.

A total quota system is not "fair" and that's not what anyone is asking for. It's fact that too many good pnms are being turned away at IU for no good reason. Total quota allows more quality women into the system not into their #1. IU is not too good for a system that all of Panhellenic uses outside of Bloomington.

That is absolutely not true. Based on discussions I've had with friends in other chapters, probably somewhere between 30-45% of chapters do values based recruiting. It might be partially because PNMs aren't openminded, but they aren't the only ones to blame.

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