University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) 2012 Recruitment
 

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Ole Miss Panhellenic Sorority Recruitment 2012

Now that Spring Semester 2013 has started, it's time to contact Greek Life if you are interested in Spring Informal Recruitment. http://dos.orgsync.com/org/umgreeks/gastaff/

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Registration for Sorority Rush - Panhellenic Recruitment Registration Opens on 5/14/12 at 12:00am and closes at noon on Monday, August 27. There is no minimum grade to participate but potential new members should know that virtually all of the Chapters on campus require a 3.0 GPA (as a minimum, if not more) to carry the PNM through to Preference Party. This is a competitive recruitment campus and Letters of Reference and Recommendations should be considered to be necessary. Some folks suggest two recs minimum.

Recruitment Dates: Sunday, September 16 – Sunday, September 23, 2012.

Open House (Ice Water Parties) will be on August 26th.

How party invitations work for PNMs: http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...&postcount=353

Convocation will be on Sunday, September 16th. Rounds will begin on Tuesday, September 18th.

- Philanthropy Parties run from Tuesday the 18th through Thursday the 20th of September.

- Skit Parties on September 21st.

- Preference Parties on the 22nd.

Bid Day will be at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 23.

Panhellenic Council http://dos.orgsync.com/org/umgreeks/npc

**** Online Registration Info: https://secureapp.icsrecruiter.com/I...spx?UID=OLMISS

Greek Life http://dos.orgsync.com/greek

Campus Chapters: web sites

Alpha Omicron Pi :
- - - - - http://www.olemiss.edu/orgs/alphaomicronpi/index.html
Chi Omega :
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Delta Delta Delta :
- - - - - http://info.theginsystem.com/websites/DDD_UMiss/
Delta Gamma :
- - - - - http://www.olemissdg.com/recruitment.html
Kappa Alpha Theta :
- - - - - http://www.kappaalphatheta.org/chapt...zeta/page/home
Kappa Delta :
- - - - - http://www.olemisskd.com
Kappa Kappa Gamma :
- - - - - http://www.olemisskappakappagamma.com/
Phi Mu :
- - - - - http://olemiss.phimu.org/index.php?page_name=start
Pi Beta Phi :
- - - - - http://chapters.pibetaphi.org/pibetaphi/olemiss/

*** PLEASE - PM me with any additional web site updates, they will be added/changed.
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Informative GreekChat thread on What to NOT do or say: http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...=30758&page=44

Ole Miss Panhellenic what to expect: http://dos.orgsync.com/org/umpanhel/whatexpect

Social Media Management for the serious PNM: http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...d.php?t=126505

CLEAN UP YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA!!! DO IT NOW!: http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...43#post2165861

Questions PNMs should be prepared to answer during rush: http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...&postcount=134

Ole Miss Panhellenic Pinterest Boards: Pintrest

Concise advice on how to obtain recommendations from U. of Alabama: http://www.uapanhellenic.com/index.p...d=15&Itemid=32

Ole Miss Recruitment Dates
 

I was told a few weeks ago that Open House will be on August 26th.

Philanthropy Rounds on September 19 and 20. Skit on September 21, and Preference on the 22nd.

Bid Day on Sunday, September 23.

Those dates are correct. I have the email Greek Life sent out in early January.
Excerpt from email:
Recruitment will be held from Sunday, September 16 – Sunday, September 23, 2012. Convocation will be on Sunday, September 16 and rounds will begin on Wednesday, September 19. Bid Day will be on Sunday, September 23.

I don't think it will change, especially since it is pretty much based on the football schedule.;)

Updated original post to include the information. Please let me know of any additions and/or edits and I'll make them happen to that post. :) MP

I can't believe no one else has posted this....but Ole Miss is open for extension!!!! Here is an article form the DM the other day.

Following Bid Day 2011, UM open to new sorority

http://thedmonline.com/article/follo...n-new-sorority

I wonder where the land is that OM is supposedly going to make available. Could it possibly be either the former ZTA or ADPi house? Seems as they were both on sorority row and are now converted to other university use. I suspect that any location other than Sorority Row or Rebel Drive would be a turn-off to PNMs. I've seen other campuses where sorority houses are scattered about, but not at OM. But, I haven't been there in years and don't know what may be available nearby.

If this is happening soon, I think we can rule out AXO as they are going to have their hands (and all their other appendages) full with expansion at Arkansas.

Personally, I could see and would like to see both Alpha Gamma Delta and Delta Zeta pursue Ole Miss. Delta Zeta would be a recolonization (present at Ole Miss from 1928-1953). Alpha Delta Pi is recolonizing at Mississippi State University in 2013 so I do not think they would pursue it. Also, they have only been off campus for 15 years at Ole Miss.

The article mentioned the University providing land for up to THREE houses. Will Ole Miss be open to multiple chapters?

they might be watching what happens at Arkansas. At this point I would think it's too late to do a colony already this fall, so they could choose 2 or 3 stacked sororities, but bundle them (for the spring or fall 2013?) if it goes well at Arkansas. That's one of those things we just aren't going to know until we've seen it in real life. But they're definitely another school that could handle multiple expansions.

Ole Miss is using the ZTA house for offices. I don't know if ZTA sold it to them or if they are leasing it. OleMissGlitter may know.

In a prior thread discussing Ole Miss expansion, OMG stated that the University bought both the ADPi (Honors College) and ZTA (Lenoir Hall) houses.

Compare those to:
Alpha Omicron Pi
Delta Gamma
Delta Delta Delta
Kappa Alpha Theta
Kappa Delta
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Pi Beta Phi
Phi Mu
Chi Omega

Some of these pictures are slightly outdated - I know several houses have been recently renovated/enlarged.

Thought this was interesting:

The former ZTA house is home base for the nutrition/food-service program and has an on-site student-run restaurant, Lenoir Dining.

Greek Life has indicated that the colony efforts are expected to begin after FR concludes this coming Fall. Property has been located which would accommodate three new Chapter facilities.

Wow! After formal recruitment this fall? I suppose presentations are going to happen before the end of the school year with decisions being made rather quickly. I wonder if Ole Miss is planning on bringing more than 1 sorority to campus specifically if they are naming 3 locations where housing could be built? I'm really interested in seeing what develops. Good luck to all NPC groups that choose to submit packets!

The old ADPi house is such a different style from the other gorgeous houses at OM, and I'm pretty sure that it was much like that when the chapter was active. I wonder if that boxy, office building design was a deterrant to PNMs before the chapter closed.

There were a few of these at Illinois: houses that were some awesome "modern" style when they were built in the 50's or 60's, and looked ugly next to more traditional houses a few decades later.

The Ole Miss ADPi Chapter closed while I was in Grad School there. I have heard that this house was definitely not an advantage during formal recruitment. It definitely departed from the campus trend and it seems not favorably.

Is there a mandate somewhere regarding columns on Southern Greek homes? :confused:

You are confused? It is OLE MISS, for gawd's sake!! What else would you expect? You can't get more Southern traditional than that!

And yes, the old ADPi house was just butt ugly and seriously out of place on this campus. It did not help that chapter a bit. Let it stay an administration building.

@Cheerio & @thetalady: Something now forgotten is that the Union Army led by General Sherman burned Oxford to the ground. The only places left were used to house the Union Troops and the University. Many of those surviving places were of the Antebellum Greek-Revival style. Women's GLO's did not arrive at Ole Miss until the 1890's, and then went subrosa during the time that the Mississippi Legislature banned GLO's entirely. When the GLO's began building facilities these homes were based on the impressive local surviving Greek Revival architecture and other gracious homes. Architecture is a form of market signaling by the builder/owner.

The honors college/ex ADPi house isn't attractive at all (reminds me of the fraternity quad at Carnegie-Mellon) but the columns bore me to tears. They all look alike to me.

I've read about the anti-fraternity legislation, but I didn't know that Greek life there just went underground instead of inactive.

Didn't the sororities have lodges before they had full housing?

@33girl: The lack of architectural diversity in the columns and facades is truly sad, it's very reminiscent of McMansion Architecture to me except the omission any of of the Norman French details in the construction.

@ LXA SE285: Answer on lodge question; you know I'm not sure. I think I knew the answer to that 20 years ago, but not today. In some cases the houses you see are the second facilities built by individual chapters here, one I think is the Chi Omega house.

I know the AOII house did not have columns until a major capital campaign was undertaken to alter the facade and add columns. Pi Beta Phi did the same.

On the other hand, it's perfectly located (as far as I can tell) and it's amazing what you can do with exterior rehabs. I would think that would have to be part of the expansion package. The size is probably reasonably in the ballpark, but it is remarkably ugly. Does the university own the houses or is the university leasing from ADPi? This is where it gets into the financial behind the scenes stuff and that's WAY beyond my pay grade.

An earlier poster said the houses were sold to the university. And keep in mind, if they have depreciated the houses out, then they could raze the buildings and sel/lease the lots to the new group to build on. In fact, they could raze the buildings no matter what if they wanted to go thate route.

Ew. I violently dislike mid-century modern style. I think it lacks the timelessness or character of other styles.

It is unfortunate if the ADPi chapter suffered from the lack of foresight of those adults who selected their house office-building style architecture in the first place. Hope I'm not being too harsh, but what were they thinking? A good mid-century modern home in the right setting can be fabulous, but not on Sorority Row at Ole Miss. I wish much success to whichever group is chosen to colonize next.

I don't usually post, but do read the threads. I couldn't help but throw out the information that I know. I went to Ole Miss and two of my girlfriends were ADPi's when it all went down. There are two things here I thought I would point out because I doubt anyone would know.

(1) Yes, the house was a big problem. What's worse is that the pictures you see of it now is from the intended back side. As I was told by them when ADPi build that house the University was planning on starting a second Sorority Row so they built the house to face the "new" sorority row. I'm not even sure I've stopped and looked at it from the front, but that is why it does have a strange look. Of course I think either way the style doesn't match, but the view is technically backwards.

(2) As they told me part of the problem was that nationals came in and tried to change recruitment to match nationals and not Ole Miss. I never really knew what they meant by that and if that was totally true, but that is how it was relayed to me for several years. I'm sure there were several other reasons, but I thought I would throw in my two cents from women who were there at the time.

Hope you don't mind the crash, but I couldn't help but try to at least tell what I've been told by women who were there.

That sounds odd to me, as I always think of ADPi as a "southern" sorority. I would think they would understand Ole Miss culture, or at least understand that they had to understand it.

Someone who is a recent alumna initiate and was never a Greek at the school should not be telling tales based on second hand rumors to a public message board.

Actually, I find the detail about the back of the house to be very relevant to the conversation.

I am glad Ole Miss is finally open. My experience with AOII's expansion at Arkansas makes me confident that these schools with formerly impenetrable Greek systems are finally able to be expanded successfully. I look at the recent successes of new groups at Arkansas, Alabama, and South Carolina. One of the reasons the need is SO great at these schools (quotas near or exceeding 100) is that there are more young women attending college, and many of these women are not affected by the "OMG at Arkansas you have to be a XYZ or die" mentality. I know at Arkansas, so many PNMs were the first in their famillies to attend college, had little or no knowledge of the Greek process, and therefore were not as swayed by the historical prowess of certain chapters. There are plenty of well-qualified PNMs who I believe WILL give a new group a chance. Yes, it is risky business to build an expensive house, but the need is so clearly demonstrated that I actually find it less risky than expansion at some other schools where Greek life isn't as prominent and the quotas aren't so high. (For example, AOII is currently colonizing at Oklahoma State where we need to build a house, and quotas have been in the mid 60s recently. That is much riskier than trying to fill a house at Arkansas where quota was 131 last year.)

Any "former" sorority houses will not be used if a new group does colonize. The new groups will most likely have to build new structures. Now where that land might be is yet to be known.

I am sure all NPC groups who submit packets know that to be competitive they must build a competitive house. The Greek Community is ready to support a new group and I am excited to see where this process takes the Panhellenic Family.

Also, like IrishPipes said, AOII and Pi Phi houses use to be very non-Southern. AOII added the columns and front entrance area in the 1980s, then the most recent addition around 2006-2007. Pi Phi redid their house with the beautiful new front with columns around 2006.

I wonder if the architect was from AZ. Seriously! That structure would not raise any eyebrows here.

It is interesting (to me at least) how much geographical location affects style. I need to go photograph the various facilities at UofA and then post them. I will put that on the to-do list (which now rivals the length of the Federal Budget in terms of things needing my attention).

Is it geography, though, or age? Are the houses in the SW states as old?

Illinois has a weird thing where everyone put on an addition in the 60's, so there are lots of timeless houses with some weird box slapped on the side.

It's based on rumor and conjecture. She wasn't there. She doesn't know.

Are you really kidding me? Because I'm an AI then apparently I was completely blind and deaf to anything that happened at MY university? So if someone was a Chi O from Ole Miss in 2005 and said the same thing would you question them? Give me a break! I stated everything honestly and why in the world would it matter if this is a public forum? I didn't say I had facts; I said what was told to me by two of my friends WHO WERE ADPI's at Ole Miss at the time it happened.

Do you know how this story was told to me? I asked her why they closed. She told me all this AS SHE WAS GIVING ME A TOUR OF THE HOUSE. It was then the honors college, but she showed me where the chapter room had been, was reminiscing with different stories, and was generally sharing all of it with me. Later we were out for drinks when our other friend joined and we told her what we did that afternoon and more was discussed. It wasn't like it was some big secret or that what I said was scandalous or hurtful.

You have no idea what I do or don't know, but I thought I'd share something I was told by a sister of that chapter. I also stated that I didn't know how true or what she meant by it but those were her words to me.

Seeing the ADPi house brought back all the bad memories of my experience with our chapter closing. We had a modern house designed by a protege of Frank Lloyd Wright. (But much better looking that that big mistake.) Most of the sorority houses at MSU were the traditional sorority house in varying degrees. Our house was a huge negative. We were in a great location on sorority row, but it didn't matter.

We received tons of help from the national level and I do think they did everything they could. But the combination of a non-competitive house/building on a heavily tiered, non-Panhellenic campus was simply too much to overcome.

It's amazing that twenty years later as soon as I saw that ADPi picture, my stomach lurched. I had no doubts why they closed. :(