Rudey, my dear, let me set you straight on the Pennsylvania school situation :)

My alma mater, THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH aka PITT is not the same thing as PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY aka PENN STATE. Pitt is, in fact, far superior in every way imaginable ;) Now, there is also THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA aka PENN, which is most definitely not PENN STATE. PENN people tend to get really offended when you think that. I guess 'cause it cost like 10 times as much?

Woooo woooo Go Big Green!!!

-Rudey

hijack

Hey, what are the University of Chicago sports teams called anyway? The Fighting Flaming Liberals??? :D

/hijack

LOL (The Maroons). And yes I know we are D3 and all that and we do have some gross liberal folks here who protest Taco bell and all that jazz, but we are also pretty much the geo-center of neo-conservatism and have other conservative superstars under our belt (John Ashcroft et al.).

-Rudey
--I'm so happy those bastards didn't get rid of Taco Bell before I graduated even though I would have bet good government cheese that the lady behind the counter was convicted at some point for mass murder.

Good luck to your friend!!!

You mean the houses are just open all night and you come and go whenever? Yeesh, I would hate that!!

We used to do the structured informal thing and while this did mean we had quota twice a year, it was a LOT easier on the rushees. There were always open bid parties for like a week afterwards so it wasn't a big deal.

KillarneyRose speaks the truth! Just a reminder, though, there's also a State System of Higher Education (SSHE) that consists of 14 (I think) public universities, some with branches. Two of my favorite names of schools are in the SSHE:

California University of Pennsylvania

and

Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

California and Indiana are simply the names of the towns, same as the other SSHE schools. It's kinda like the towns named Egypt or Lebanon. :)

The Cal president wanted to change the name a few years ago (because "people don't get that it's in PA) and everyone got VERY pissed off. The thing he wanted to change it to not only would have gone against naming conventions, but wouldn't have done any more to let people know it was in PA!

I was in Clarion on Saturday. It looked very nice. That's a state school, right?

SSHE schools
 

I'm from IUP, so I thought I'd chime in on the SSHE thing,

Yes, there are 14 state system schools, they are:

Bloomsburg
California
Clarion
Cheney
East Strousburg
Edinboro
Indiana
Kutztown
Lock Haven
Mansfield
Millersville
Shippensburg
Slippery Rock
West Chester

Just an update, I'm really tired sorry about the typos. We did very well yesterday, but i do know that there were quite a few heartbroken girls yesterday and there will definitely be some today. That's why you have to give EVERY house a chance.

Tonight's bid night. Good luck to all!

33girl - the houses aren't open all night. There were an A and a B group. A had their parties on Thursday Sat and Sun, B had FRiday Sat and Sun. Sunday was invitation only parties and Saturday A had parties from 12-3 and I think B had parties afterwards, but I could be wrong on that. The women are free to go where they want. I think Dani is saying that it is difficult to leave the parties because the PNM has to excuse themselves from the conversation.

More later but I am exhausted.

fire,

PM me with good news :)

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I so hate to hear about recruitment heartbreak! :( Maybe they can be picked up in COR? Of course, it is my sincere hope that NOBODY has to do any COR for the rest of the year!!!

We so appreciate your updates, fire1977 - please take it easy! When you get a moment to break any news, please post or PM it when you're up to it - thank you!!!

We have nine new amazing pledge sisters. I know it is somewhat archaic to use that term, but we elected to use it nationally. Ive heard that Sigma Delta Tau did well, and some of the ones that didnt do well were surprising. I hope everybody the best of luck during COB!

Congrats to TPA. Nine is a great sized spring class.

For spring rush though, what constitutes "doing well"?

I know that we had 6 bids to give, preffed 12. Not sure what the numbers ended up being, but the chances of the 6 girls all accepting bids is slim to none. Thankfully we have a great snap bid/COR system set up so i'm pretty sure we got to 6 last night (haven't talked to anyone).

I'm sure there were a ton of broken hearts yesterday- this system leads to that. There's always some great girls that end up slipping through the crack. But then sometimes when they pick up their bids they're pressured to sign one that they got, even though they really wanted the other one. They think that they were totally rejected from the one they really wanted- when in reality, it's just because they can only give a few bids. Girl ends up signing the bid to another house because she's pressured to, hates it, then can't rush for another calendar year. It happens all the time :(

Another problem is that with spring rush, especially this year because ALL of the houses were rushing, is that many of the houses want the same girls.

Sorry, this system just aggrevates the hell out of me.

Especially since it's done in such a weird way. It's supposed to be informal, yet Panhel has so much involvement, including is suing rush infractions for stupid things. And so many girls get their hearts broken. Plus I think it's a waste of money to put on rush parties when you only need a couple girls..... Wish Pitt would release placement numbers and that sort of thing, i'd love to see how many girls got bids out of rushed, etc.