Sorority rush at many schools, not least of which Marquette University, is aimed at giving every freshman woman an equal chance to impress by their own efforts. But with social networking sites essentially required among college folks, it's become far too easy for propsectives to get to know sisters without ever looking them in the face. Accordingly, requiring sororities to deactivate network profiles "is becoming common for sororities nationwide" The Panhellenic Council at Marquette wants to avoid sororities being judged by their profiles alone, and has thus imposed a complete Facebook ban. A Gamma Phi Beta sister explains that "there may be (a rumor) that one has more blonds in it. They start looking up Facebook profiles. They won't be able to make their decisions based on how comfortable they are."
The Facebook ban evidently also dovetails with other elements of the prolix process of panhel recruitment. Contact with potential rushees is strictly forbidden outside rush week, and Facebook would make infraction far too easy. Moreover, thirty sisters serve as impartial and anonymous advisors for the rush process, and on Facebook "freshmen could easily look up a recruitment counselor and find out which sorority she belongs to."
Informed of the Facebook bans, the Marquettte Interfraternity Council expressed a certain degree of disbelief at the lengths taken: "Every time I talk to a sorority girl I find out some strange, new facet to their recruitment process, and it always boggles me," said a spokesman.
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