Yes, ACW is the one our house talked about too. I know we get many of their legacies from AL chapters going through Recruitment here. However, it is going to cost big time money! Also, does anyone know what happens if no NPC wants to join our campus? Does that mean quota gets smaller or they put a cap on how many women can go through recruitment? Just wondering.

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They tried to do that at Pitt too I believe - getting rid of the "Pitt" script and putting Pittsburgh on all the clothing & such. As you can see everyone still calls it Pitt. :)

If no one comes to your campus then your chapters continue to get larger. This is what is happening at LSU. That campus has unintentionally priced itself out of range. Too much $$$ + No New Group = Current chapters exploding.

Quota will get smaller if 1) the number of PNM gets smaller (it's pretty much cyclical anyway), 2) Panhellenic intentionally sets quota lower then it should be or 3) Panhellenic holds fast to Chapter Total. Neither 2 nor 3 does any one any favors. In scenario 2, for example, quota should be 40 because of the number of PNMS but Panhellenic says that quota is 35. I have seen scenario 3 in action and it can be devastating. Chapter Total is set at 50 and no chapter can ever be above that number. Going into recruitment groups are at 40, 30 and 30. Quota is set at 20. Group A can take only 10, and the other two can take 20. It only takes one low turn out to put the whole system into disarray where all chapters must constantly COR. ****I know that the Green Book says that any group is allowed to pledge Quota, but it's not like that on at least two campuses.****

As far as limiting the number of girls going through, what criteria would you use besides GPA? If you add that a certain number of credits completed (12 hours) be obtained then you run into a Spring deferment issue. Would that really solve anything? I know that I would never want to be in the Greek Life office fielding those phone calls.

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And not just folk from Mississippi. The University of Kentucky athletic schedules list teams from the University of Mississippi as "Ole Miss". As in "Kentucky at Ole Miss". And if you check out the Southeastern Conference web site, they do the same.

In the SEC and the South, the University of Mississippi IS Ole Miss.

A couple of years after I left Arkansas, they decided to put a cap on the number of women who could be pledged--I can only imagine because the houses couldn't accomodate more women. Bad move. I have to find that yearbook but something like 600 girls rushed and less than 300 got bids--and everyone made quota. Can you imagine the number of anti-Greek women that produced?

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Exactly! Right now "Ole Miss" IS an official school name and that's why the SEC, etc, referes to us as such. That's what the current chancellor wants to change. He wants to eliminate Ole Miss as a legal name, leaving only the (bland & generic) University of Mississippi as the official & legal school name.

Okay my Ole Miss alumni and friends....I work on campus and all I'm going to tell you is that there is nothing in the works to get rid of "Ole Miss". I know it might be like at University of New Orleans, where they use University of Mississippi more than Ole Miss in PR stuff, but they are not getting rid of that. At University of New Orleans they went from being known as U-N-O to University of New Orleans more and more. Anyway, I work in Alumni Affairs and I know we aren't getting rid of Ole Miss, actually our Marketing Director is incorporating it into our PR and what the public and alumni view more and more. Anyway, just wanted to throw my two cents in.

Finally, they're giving up on throwing all off our traditions out the window. Next thing you know they'll want to get rid of
Hotty Toddy. That'll be the day.

I'm sure they would not get rid of you. :D

Don't be so sure. They pretty much got rid of "Rammer Jammer" by forbidding the band to play it until the last half of the 4th quarter. :(

Yeah, but since the fans/students say it and the band doesn't play it, it'll be very hard to get rid of it. They just might not have the male cheerleaders lead the chant...

Didn't they start doing Rammer Jammer again?

Yeah. In the last half of the 4th quarter. If we have a significant lead. (Which did NOT happen too often this past year!)

We do have a promising bunch of new recruits, though. Maybe next year... :D

Just something interesting I thought I would toss in here:

I'm the secretary/membership chair of the NYC Chi O Alum chapter and we've been doing a membership drive in the last few months. Well, I have had 3 different girls join the chapter recently and all of them put 'University of Mississippi' on their info sheets. If it wasn't for their listing of Tau chapter I would have barely known they were from Ole Miss!!! :)

There are so many Greeks that live in NYC that went to OLE MISS! I'm sure they will be great assets to your alumnae chapter!