[16308] in APO-L
Re: big chapters
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Grossi)
Thu Feb 27 09:25:52 1997
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 09:23:31 EST
Reply-To: John Grossi <jgrossi@MU.BBN.COM>
From: John Grossi <jgrossi@MU.BBN.COM>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <970227090605_1980654639@emout11.mail.aol.com>; from
"DBConklin@aol.com" at Feb 27, 97 9:06 am
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> Most people can NOT spot the problem, because they are not looking, for
> whatever reason. Example: Think for a moment about what constitutes
I would hazard to disagree with you. Many of the very early signs can
not be spotted. This much I will give you. Once there is a problem
though everyone can usually discourse about it, and tell you what's
wrong, just not how to fix it.
> harassment or discrimination. Then tell me about your chapter's postering
> for pledges. Legally, chapters can be accused of discrimination based upon
> differences in postering as related to population distributions among dorms.
> That is, are there differing amounts of postering between dorms with
> differing ethnic or gender populations? In this specific example, the
People can accuse you of many things. By the scenario you lay out the
only ways to ensure that there is no discrimination is to either not
recruit or to make the whole campus a member. Recruitment is a process
of discriminating by definition.
> resources available in any major city are sufficient to give anyone the
> 'position' to solve the problem.
care to explain?
-John
