I'm at KU, and we are in the middle of Day 2 (the second day of open house). The girls went to 7 houses yesterday (Sunday). Today they went to 3 before lunch, right now we have lunch until 1:00, and then they will go to their remaining 3 houses this afternoon!

1st invites (Philanthropy) is tomorrow, the girls will go to max 8 houses. 2nd invites (entertainment/house tours) is on Wednesday, and the girls will go to a max of 5 houses. Thursday: school starts, and there is no recruitment. Friday evening is Pref night. The girls will go to max 3 houses, and then Saturday afternoon is Bid Day!

Welcome RockChalk2010! I graduated from KU in 2002. Best of luck this week, and try to stay cool!

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The Des Moines Register says that Kappa Alpha Theta hosted them. Alpha Chi Omega will continue recruitment using the Beta Sigma Psi fraternity house. Best wishes, of course.

See:

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pb...3001/1001/NEWS

Just wondering: did Theta host them because of "DePauw Duo" feelings and traditions? No matter what the reason, good to see greeks helping other greeks at a difficult time.

RockChalk2010, the online version of the Kansan said about 780 women are going through recruitment at KU this year. Is that number fairly accurate?

http://www.kansan.com/stories/2007/aug/13/recruitment/

We had 770 late on Saturday evening. I think there were about 8 girls added between Saturday evening at like midnight and Sunday morning. (the cut off for registration was Saturday afternoon I believe, but I heard there was a problem with some online registrations.)

The list I just printed off for drop outs was around 60 or so (I think). That includes girls who didn't show up, dropped out, etc.

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Heat and Humidity for Iowa State and Mizzou; d said some really nice/great girls are going through, but she hasn't found a "rush crush" yet; n is exhausted but has had a great time-

More likely because Theta is less than a half-block away. :) I'm glad no one was hurt and hope the members will be able to go back soon. I don't know if Alpha Chi had a sprinkler system or not...

oldrushee did your daughter say how many women were going through at Iowa State? I'd be curious to see how those numbers compare to last year.

was actually hoping that you were there helping out and had the numbers:)

Just an update from KU:

We have 13 sororities here. We are in the middle of 1st invites right now. 8 rounds today of philanthropy. Open house (which was on Sunday and Monday) started out with about 780 girls. About 60 dropped, which leaves us with around 710-720. (I'm not sure on the actual number).

For open house round, my chapter had a 99.4% return rate, with only TWO girls who did not place us in their top 8! Panhellenic made us cut our invite list down a lot because of this, but we are very excited to have such an astounding return rate for open house!!

You and your sisters must be doing a super job!!!!

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What wonderful news, RockChalk, and what a GREAT start to your week! You must be masters at hospitality and making people feel truly welcomed and valued.

PS> I love KU--what a beautiful campus... Thanks so much for the update. Love to hear about recruitment in the Big VIII (XII)

KU will always hold a special place in my heart, too as that is where I fell in love with my husband...even though we went to Nebraska, we "got together" on a philanthropy football run from Lincoln to Lawrence. Yes, two days in a van going one mile at a time....lots of time for bonding! It's a gorgeous campus (with lovely sorority houses!)

Bids went out at Oklahoma 29 minutes ago!

Any Boomer Sooner families out there waiting out a bid? We haven't heard a thing about OU yet...many of my friends went greek there during the Pleisocene era. Love to hear an update!

What is the OU quota? I heard some rediculous number from someone there.... Want to see if it's true..