Auburn Recruitment 2015
 

It's getting close people. Only 30 days to PNM move in and 31 days to first I've Water Teas.

August 7 PNMs move in and Recruitment Kickoff
August 8-9 Ice Water Teas
August 10-11 Philanthropy Day
August 12 Skit Day
August 13 Preference Day
August 14 Bid Day

Best wishes to all the PNMs, their parents, the Chapter sisters and advisors. War Damn Eagle!

Yea!! War Eagle to you all from an alumna!

I hear they're expecting upwards of 1600 PNMs.

I think we just hit 1600 PNMs - yikes!

This is one I always follow closely as this is our legendary former International Prez's chapter. 1600 PNMs! Wow!

1600!!! WOW!!! Exciting to follow this!

War Eagle! :-)

1 week till the older girls move back in! Expecting 1600+ PNMs! Don't forget to pack your recruitment things in a separate bag. Stock up on your favorite make up because Target and Ulta run out!

First day of IWT! :D

Pictures have started to be posted to instagram (#aurec15) by both PNMs and actives!

I know that there are privacy concerns .. but I sure wish that there was an Auburn webcam that was pointed so we could see the greek facilities.

IWT?? Oh! Ice Water Teas!

Ice Water Teas

Sources on the inside just shared that a former YouTube sensation is going through Auburn recruitment this year. Her YouTube name "doglover199709" is still active online and her videos have more than 1 million views. Videos include her lip syncing and dancing around to Hannah Montana, Rhianna and other pop stars while wearing her auburn shirt or Tigger tshirts. How do you all think this will end for her?

lol, I just looked that up -- she must have been waaaay younger. Just a kid playing lip sync in her room -- I guess I just don't *get* what makes an internet sensation. Gotta wonder what her mom thought when she found out her daughter was collecting millions of youtube views while she was supposed to be doing homework.

She's probably old enough now to just laugh about it -- but she may be disappointed to find that Auburn did away with skit day!

Auburn did away with skit day? What are they doing instead?

It's still on the schedule...why call it Skit and do something else? Odd.

I think Skit Day has been replaced with Sisterhood Day.

It is my (limited) understanding that due to National Panhellenic's ongoing concerns regarding the relevance of skits to sisterhood, the time skits take away from conversation, and the potential that an aspect of a skit might offend a PNM, Skit Day is being phased out across the board.

How can an aspect of a skit offend a PNM?

I understand the underlying thought. What I don't understand is Auburn calling it Skit Day when it's something else.

Have you seen a skit lately??? I'm offended by some parts of quite a few I've seen over the last 10 years.

I looked around for a schedule with the "new" Sisterhood round listed, but only found it on the "What to Wear" page (scroll):

https://cws.auburn.edu/panhellenic/afterreg/wear

No! That's why I want to know.

They aren't doing Little Mermaid and Grease - think Miley Cyrus and Jennifer Lopez and Snoop Dog...

Content, caricatures, songs -- even inadvertent -- I guess people can be offended easily these days and NPC is tired of policing it.

As I understand, Sisterhood Day (or equivalent) will be coming to Bama next year to replace Skit Day.

Perhaps they need a better "editor".......

I like the idea of Sisterhood Day rather than Skit Day. It's a great way for the girls to show off their individual chapters. I'd love to see what they come up with. Video? Slideshow?

I can't say that the prospect of another video or slideshow is very exciting to me -- I liked Skit Day! Not sure how much notice the chapters at Auburn received regarding the change -- they may be sorta flying by the seat of their pants this year.

It seems to me that Sisterhood Day would be synonymous with the purpose of Pref. I think that the various campus Panhellenic Councils and chapters probably need to collaborate with other schools -- where the recruitment parties have already been reorganized -- and find out what is working.

I think increasing conversation and decreasing the cutesy can only be good.

Totally agree. 😀

My kids are younger than college age, but they would be impressed if someone had a popular YouTube channel. As long as the content is cute and not skanky and she is a decent PNM otherwise, I think it will give her a little bit of a boost. I could see someone like that being recruited as a future Vice President-Public Relations.

Looks like Ole Miss is changing to Sisterhood Day this year too -- but the description still sounds a lot like Skit Day (from the TriDelta site):

Round 3: Sisterhood Day (October 1 and 2) Previously called Skit, this high-energy round is so much fun! Each sorority presents an entertaining, exciting skit to embody the ideals and personality of their sorority. The dress of this round is a fun dress or skirt and top.

http://www.olemisstridelta.org/recruitment.html


***ETA: The explanation on the Ole Miss Panhellenic site, however, doesn't mention a skit (maybe ^this one didn't revise the description):

Round 3 Sisterhood Day (Thursday, October 1, 2015 & Friday, October 2, 2015)
Number Visited: Up to 5 sororities
What to Expect: These highly energetic parties provide an insight into their sisterhood. You’ll talk with members to gain a greater perspective of their sisterhood and how they celebrate their sorority.
What to wear: Dressy casual attire, such as a dress, skirt or pants with a blouse, paired with flats so you can walk comfortably!

http://dos.orgsync.com/org/umgreeks/npcrecwear

Ole Miss is still doing skits this year, but they know that they will be eliminated for next year. Tennessee also eliminated skits this year.
I know that at Auburn there was a battle to try to limit skits to 15 minutes the past few years, but some chapters kept theirs much longer "so they wouldn't have to talk to the girls very long" . I was not in the room when that statement was made, but I have a very good source that was....
The result: Sisterhood Round.

I saw a skit video yesterday from a sorority (don't remember the school) where the girls were wearing super short cut-offs, shirts tied up to expose their entire stomach and a little bit of provocative dancing thrown in. Regardless of that, I understood what the point of some of the skit was but it still involved "making fun" of other sisters in a way. For instance, one girl would "mess up" and the others would make comments about how she never gets it right, why doesn't she just practice more, etc. In the end, they did it right which was part of the skit and was fun but I don't know...
For a recruitment event I thought that overall it was a bit much. If videos like that is what Panhellenic is experiencing more and more, I don't blame them for wanting to change it. I've seen so many videos that aren't like that though, and they're so cute! I guess its a catch 22.

As a membership volunteer for my GLO for the past 10 years, I have visited at least 30 different campuses during recruitment (and as a national officer visitor, I often got to see 2-5 other NPC chapter's skits on each visit.) Doesn't matter if the campus total is 30 or 300...too much time was spent practicing for skit compared to preference round, too much money was spent on costumes, too many inside jokes for the most part. I can count on the fingers of one hand the skits for any NPC groups that I witnessed that had a balance of showcasing chapter involvement, values, and sisterhood (compared to booty-shaking dances and skimpy costumes).
Yes, I am old. But good taste does not have an expiration date.

I've always felt the videos were problematic as well. Too many inside jokes, situations, etc...there is no voice over - just music with the members clapping, hooting and hollering. What does any of that mean? What's anchor weekend??? What's any of it? The audience isn't "in" on any of it. And just what are all those groups at UGA who built additions with stages going to do with that room????? Don't get me wrong. i'd like to see no skits and a short 5 minutes video...and learn how to talk to someone!!!!!!

Thanks for the info --

I think skits are supposed to be no longer than 15 minutes at Bama too -- wondering if not adhering to this time is.was a fineable offense? I guess it won't matter now.

I've heard of skits that were skating the brink of less-than-tasteful, but I had no idea this was widespread.

Thinking about some skits I've seen over the years...so many of the most popular groups had skits that were almost totally composed of inside jokes and the ones that weren't weren't particularly funny. And it finally hit me that these wildly popular groups could have put anything up on that stage-someone lecturing about rare chemicals or the fungi of Zambezi and the PNMs would've still been hanging on the edge of their seats, pretending to understand everything and laughing frantically.

True, Carnation.

Totally agree.