Ah, she's sure to get a good group either way!

Pref Day at Nebraska. The local girls are scattered all over, liking different houses, which is a good thing. We were kind of previously only in one or two, which can break a few hearts because they ALL can't be in the same place! I hope they all find their happy place!

New format this year - they get bids tomorrow, Saturday. Previously today would have been bid day and they would have gone as a pledge class to the New Student Orientation at the stadium.

BTW all the houses are participating in formal rush this year.

Here is a link to the Daily Nebraskan about Greek life. 900 girls this year!

http://www.dailynebraskan.com/news/n...uits-1.2610575

Aaaand she did! Bids were handed out a few hours ago and she's a new ADPi! I don't think anybody cut her.

Zeta Tau Alpha
 

ZTA at LSU has 95 new members. Geaux Tigers!

yay!!

We start recruitment on Friday. Good luck to your cousin!

Happy to have new sisters.

I LOVE RECRUITMENT.

That is all.

Sums it all up perfectly, SWTX! I LOVE RECRUITMENT!

This is the first year since I was initiated that I'll miss recruitment. :( Recruitment in Riverside is in the last 3 weeks of my pregnancy and by then, I'll be too big, cranky & tired to do much if I haven't given birth yet. All I can do this year is pre-order food & snacks for the girls to get them through the hectic days of recruitment. I'm excited about my baby but also a little sad I'll miss this fun (and admittedly exhausting) weekend.

University of Tennessee ZTA
 

ZTA at Tennessee has 51 new members! Rocky Top!

hooray!

Here is the link to University of Louisville's Bid Day from Flickr. A former student of mine is the president of her chapter and had posted it. Hopefully it will work. if it doesn't, copy and paste it in your browser.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/uofl/6055570067/

Thanks! I'll let you all know how it ends up for her!
I'm so excited :)

Congratulations to ZTA's Zeta chapter at UT. Love to my new sisters!

I have a new "winner" for the wait-until-the-last-minute-to-ask-for-a-rec award: recruitment starts tomorrow. She called this afternoon. She was, however, highly qualified, not to mention suitably embarrassed and penitent, so hey.

Bless her heart.

:cool:

hang in there bettedavideyes and best wishes for a fast and uncomplicated delivery and a healthy, happy baby!

Great picture!

The University of South Carolina had 200 more pnms sign up than the previous year. They also extended rush to a 2 week period.

http://www.dailygamecock.com/news/it...ng-recruitment

Wow - this article from Univ. of Oklahoma is just...sad.

http://oudaily.com/news/2011/aug/22/...ty-experience/

wow - what a terrible indictment of sorority life. I hope they will publish a counterpoint article that can represent equal time. So sorry for Alpha phi which, based on the article and responses, appears to be a smaller group on campus and probably does not need the negative press.

sad. Shame on the newspaper and the reporter for such an obvious bias.

Exactly. The comments to the article were very interesting and sad as well.

it makes me wonder if she joined to further her jounalistic ambitions, sort of like the girl who, several years ago, went thru rush at (i believe) UT-Knoxville, just to write an article for the student paper.

naming names was inexcusable!

That article is just vile, the girl is obviously very scorned.

So her main gripe is they had to wear Spanx during rush?

She says nothing about what day to day life in the sorority was like. Ridiculous.

I can't wait till she quits a job because she had to wear a business suit to meet with a client.

ETA: I had to chuckle at the comment about her "whopping 376 friends" on facebook. Some of my friends prune their FB down to under 200 and STILL think that's too many. Generation gap! :)

http://alphaphisooners.com/

Not sure they are a smaller group. But they have been on campus a long time unless the chapter closed and then returned recently.

According to irishpipes' BORT (Big Ole Recruitment Thread), the chapter closed in 1998, and reopened in 2007.

Wow... that article is sad and pathetic.

In looking at the Alpha Phi OU website, they look to be a group of beautiful and diverse women... nothing suggests what this so-called "journalist" says about them.

Some people just never will understand sisterhood... and that makes me sad. :(

Yea for South Carolina!

Alpha Gamma Delta will be there next year!:D

I don't support the article, but I understand how recruitment could be a catalyst for wanting out of the system.

I think it comes across here when we touch on the more superficial aspects of recruitment that there are some aspects of how we pick members that might not 100% line up with what we'd define as a perfect sisterhood. If those unpleasant parts became defining for the way you viewed your own group, I can see how it would be hard to continue and how you might want to indict the whole system rather than admit that you bought into it.

But writing the article is just a jerk move.

Cosign with all, particularly in bold.

Iowa recruitment starts this weekend. 716 PNMs

I think my favorite comment on the article was

Glad you got that off your chest. However, this is a sorry excuse for a column. If you call yourself a journalist why on earth did you feel the need to call out the sorority you chose to join. While writing about your experiences and shedding light on an issue you feel strongly about is one thing, calling out student organizations and therefore students so explicitly in the midst of that completely discredits your accountability as a writer. Food for thought next time you decide to publish a diary entry and call it "research. "

Anyways.

Disaffiliation at SLU starts tomorrow, and pre-recruitment workshops start Sunday- never been more excited!

Woot!

So as I guessed, their comment about "record" was a little overblown, but that's a great number!

What comments? I missed those. I thought this was a record PNM year? I know last year's COB was double

I think the numbers were probably higher in the 80s and early 90s, before the University started having issues with Greek life. I'm sure this year is the highest number of PNMs they've seen in the last decade. They were only in the 500 to maybe 600 range the five years I advised in the 2000s.

exactly. Sorry, you're supposed to know what I'm talking about without giving you any details! On the University of Iowa Sororities and Fraternities facebook page they made the mention of record registrations. Quotas were in the 40's and rushees were in the 700-900 range through the 1980's. For a variety of reasons (most of which I'm not privy to, but I have a few ideas) the Greek system at Iowa went into freefall for awhile. Then they started using RFM and it seems there was a whiplash that made it WORSE. But last year it seemed to work correctly. Iowa has even been doing a semi-structured informal for the last few (several?), and that would have been beyond bizarre when I was there.

I think the chapters would be happy with a real chapter total at 110 (where virtually all of the chapters are at total). When it was 120 they expanded twice within several years, but unfortunately neither made it in the long term. Plus, SDT left and AEPhi came in. I don't have any idea what that was about.

Is it "air your disgruntlement with specific OU chapters" week in their paper?

http://oudaily.com/news/2011/aug/23/...p-self-apprec/

I wonder what the other side to the story is on this one- like why she didn't actually initiate at her first school?