I just got back from helping the Pitt girls practice their recruitment skills. This is the first time I have met the chapter, and I cannot begin to tell you how impressed I was! Yeah!!! :D

lol, that's me next weekend

Thank you so much for coming Kristi!

I think we all had fun, and it really helped the newer girls and gave them more of an idea of what to expect. Maria is doing a great job as recruitment coordinator.

Hopefully rush will go well. The new member educator told me she was concerned b/c at the activities fair only 300 girls expressed an interest in rush at the panhel table, usually over 500 girls do. So hopefully things will work out and they'll get a big rush going through!

And yeah, the IFC and Panhel webpages are so out of date and pathetic. You'd think that would be a priority....

hmm-well it's still two weeks and there are a lot of women who wait until the last minute.

Keep in mind they haven't had meet the greeks or "watermellon picnic/fall bash" yet so....

watermelon picnic/fall bash is such a joke.... or at least when I was there. its barely promoted, barely any non greeks come to it. Actually I think it's a REALLY intimidating environment for a PNM to go too.... there's no guidance or anything, it's just here, here's a TON of people, go talk.

I love Meet the Greeks. But those stupid pre-rush events just seem like another thing to have to go to whereas that time and energy could be spent better elsewhere :)

I liked it better when it was held on the cathedral lawn-when they starting stuffing everyone in the quad was when it got really bad.

It also used to be two separate events-turnout for watermellon picnic was okay, but fall bash never really attracted anyone. I agree with you Dani- it is *very* intimidating.

300? If I can remember, it seems there are more girls expressing interest now then at this time last year. I just remember Liz freaking out when over 200 girls signed up for recruitment and that was only a week before recruitment starts, which is the numbers we need to worry about. Therefore, it sounds like we are going to have good numbers going thru.

well the 300 was at the student activities fair, where we know kids just walk around signing up for whatever. hell, when i was an officer for habitat for humanity we had more kids than that sign our paper. Who knows though, until we see the numbers.

Although i wouldn't be surprised if they went down. The economy sucks and many (NOT all) of the kids that go to Pitt are from working class families.

I guess we can only see though. One thing though is that I wish they promoted it more. Start getting these girls interested from day one.... have more ads in the Pitt news and more flyers and tables around campus.

Is quota determined before or after 4-rounds? Miss one year, and you're totally out of the loop! :rolleyes:

Okay, another question! I just got a call from our Recruitment Chairman. She told me that they have to tell Panhel which alumnae are going to be helping them during Recruitment. Does anyone know if we have to state which party(ies), or just a general "I'll be there"?

We don't have to let Panhellenic know what alumnae will be at the rec. parties---that was only going to be the case if the alumnae-being-able-to-recruit women rule had passed...which is interesting in itself, considering that it's in the Green Book that alumnae can talk to women during recruitment, especially if a chapter is small...but that's an entirely different issue...

Also, from what I understand, while 220 women signed up to go through recruitment, only 13 have actually formally signed up/paid the fee. But tomorrow is Meet the Greeks, so I know more women will sign up!

Good luck to everyone in the next couple of weeks! I'm so excited to meet potential new members!!

You know you're nervous about Rush when...

You see that there are 13 women signed up for recruitment and think, "Wow - Quota would be all of one person!!"

May I get through the next 2 weeks sanely...

I'll be on my honeymoon/doing wedding stuff while Pitt's rush is going on......

and I hope ya'll realize that I will probably sneak away from the activities to check and see how things are going. :p

Lucky you!! When's the Big Day?

September 20th :D