Well, at W&L we use both. We have a skit night and then use videos on a separate night (Sisterhood Night).

At UNLV we used a video/slideshow on go greek night (night 1), to give the girls a feel for what each house is about. It started with the leading house on campus and I think everyone just started to do them to be competitive. it was definatley a new thing. Also UNLV had started doing first day cuts so giving the girls a visual defiantely helped them get a better feel for a house before making their decisions.
Skits were done on Orientation Night to get the girls familair with the groups core values and symbols and of course to win them over with stunning dance moves.

I am pretty sure sac state does a picture slide show at the beginning of formal recruitment. It has music and whatnot as well.

We have one that we show to the new recruits at our first event (we don't participate in formal recruitment.)

The Alpha Phi chapter here has a video on their website but I am too lazy to download it... it takes a while. www.alphaphicsus.com (i think.)

We're going to be using a video at our activities fair during the first week of school.. its going to be playing at our table for girls to see. This will be our first year with a video. We usually do a slideshow, but my older brother and his girlfriend offered to make a video this year.

I'm excited to see how it comes out! :D

East Tennessee State University has them. We use them on Philanthropy night, and they must be philanthropy-related only.

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University of Central Florida uses videos.

And I'm making my chapter's as we speak... what a headache!

florida state university uses them. they are a broad overview of what each chapter did the previous year so the pnm's can get a bit of a grasp on what sorority life is all about.

Stetson University uses rush videos during cokes as well. It's my favorite part of rush. When I was in school I had good friends in the other orgs and always went to watch their videos. They're all great.

At Ole Miss (The University of Mississippi) we use a video during philanthropy round. Mostly this is a time to showcase your philanthropy and then to present your chapter to the PNMs.

We used to have a slide show for Pref Night but this year i'm having someone make a video for our chapter...if the guy ever gets it done :( ...he said that it would be done at the end of June but obviously it's July now and there's nuttin' (good thing we haven't given him the fee for doing it)

At Hillsdale, I think Panhel just leaves it up to us.

For example: We use a video (basically just a picture slideshow set to music on the TV) during Informal Recruitment open houses and during Formal Recruitment at the pref party, after we chat with the girl(s) we are preffing and before we do the pref ceremony.

However, when I went through Formal Recruitment as a freshman.... One of the other three houses showed their video during open houses (first day); the other two didn't. However, that other house's video still sticks in my mind, which proves to me that videos work: It was a the Kappa Kappa Gamma house, and ended with a clip of all the girls at a bid night singing that "I'm So Happy" song.

In my humble opinion, a video is a great way to show PNMs the things that they would get to experience as a member of ABC sorority - we include pictures from formals, sisterhood activities, philanthropy activities, members involved in sports or other campus activities, etc.

Western Illinois University uses videos...
And they use a slide show for Rho Chi's reveal


ASA has a video that I believe is mandatory that we show during recruitment...although it can just be playing while the PNM's do their philanthropy activity, i don't think we have to actually sit them down, un-distracted to watch it.

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The videos we're all talking about here, are these videos you made yourselves, are they videos that your national organization puts together and distributes to each chapter? I'm curious to know if chapters use the videos that HQs has done.

ours is a video we produce ourselves and is a combination of slides (still shots) and live video.