Editor:

This letter is in response to Meghan Wasson’s letter in the Jan. 5 issue, “Exclusion not beneficial to Greek recruitment.”

The process of sorority recruitment, though unclear to potential new members going through, has well-defined criteria for each chapter. It is not the responsibility of chapters to take women that do not meet their specific standards of membership. Going into recruitment, women should realize there’s always the risk of being released.

Sororities are not clubs; they have always been organizations that are based upon various standards of membership, including specific GPA requirements for each chapter. It is important to realize that Greek life is not for everyone, and it is not a personal attack of character toward women who do get released.

Young women who are interested in sorority life actively seek out sorority women to get to know them and show them why they would fit that sorority’s standards and requirements.

Likewise, each of the four social sororities on Loyola’s campus hold pre-recruitment events in the fall to get to know interested women.

These events are also to show the potential new members what the sorority is about and give them a formal chance to meet the women in each sorority.

Furthermore, Wasson, having now gone through recruitment twice, has had a year and a half to meet the women in Loyola’s sororities and to show them her potential.

She criticizes being dropped after only meeting these women for “about an hour,” yet it is clear that she has had many more opportunities for these women to know her and vice versa.

It is unfortunate that women get released during recruitment, but it is also unavoidable. If sororities became open to anyone interested, they would be clubs and lose the sisterhood that is loved, revered and cherished by sorority women everywhere.

Ashley Genz-Foster, English writing sophomore

Margaret Morley,political science junior

Casey Revoir,history junior