To the Editor:
I was happy to see Maxine Goldstein's explanation of the sorority rush system (The Dartmouth, Feb. 1, 2002, "Assuming the Responsibility") because, although I have no personal interest in it as a male alumnus, her viewpoint provided much needed comic relief.
Ms. Goldstein's notion that a process based on "mutual selection" is not a system of "rejection" is just plain silly. "Mutual selection" means that that an individual person chooses to affiliate with a house and, simultaneously, a given house chooses to affiliate with that same person. In such a system, a person who chooses not to sink a bid from a house that offered one would clearly be rejecting the house. Similarly, when every single sorority house fails to offer a person any bid at all, the system is also practicing what is known to most of us in the civilized world as "rejection."
As if Ms. Goldstein's concept of "mutual selection" were not funny enough, she then offers an account of what she did with the girls who were rejected by the system. She explains that she "did [her] best" to "find a place for each girl."
