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Part 4 COFFEE DATES WHICH OF MY FRIENDS ARE PRETTY & PERSONABLE ENOUGH TO MEET OUR TOP RECRUITS? You would think that the worst is over. You would think that now that the External Prescoring process has ensured that all members of Beta Delta have met the distorted beauty requirements, the young women can exist in a world of ignorant bliss. The objectifying way in which membership to Beta Delta is granted should be complete. The girls do not know how they were selected, so they should be able to focus on finding friendship and security in this new chapter of their lives.  ​ They had all been deemed pretty "good" enough to be worthy of joining Beta Delta's sisterhood, and beauty would no longer be a factor in explicitly quantifying their worth during their four years at Michigan. ​ That is, until the next year. And the year after that. And the year after that.  ​ Each time I entered the Beta Delta basement to mindlessly follow orders and contribute to the External Prescoring process, I carefully left my humanity at the door. I reminded myself that these girls whom I was valuing on the most superficial of scales were only strangers to me. I tried to tell myself that it was no different than sitting beside my mother and sister watching the Academy Awards and commenting on how beautiful Nicole Kidman looked in that blue dress but how Emily Blunt had never looked worse. They were strangers presenting their best selves for the world to see.   ​ Red carpets. Facebook profiles. ​ But, all of a sudden, they weren't strangers anymore, and the door wasn't heavy enough to lock my humanity outside. 
In order to follow orders, I had to allow my moral brain to exist in an alternate universe where everything was secondary to beauty and that was the norm and that was valuable and that was guiltless.  Each year, during the Spring semester, Beta Delta's recruitment chairs send an email to the sophomore pledge class that includes a sign up sheet for "Coffee Dates" with the intention of getting the girls excited about recruiting a new pledge class in the Fall. The rush chairs tell the sophomores that they want to meet with them in small groups for about fifteen minutes just to learn more about their experiences with recruitment, how much they enjoyed the process, and, of course, what things they especially liked about Beta Delta's recruitment process or what other houses did better than we did. ​ They begin each "Coffee Date" by telling the sisters that everything we discuss there, and all recruitment discussions going forward, must remain confidential within the sisters of Beta Delta.