University of Alabama NPC recruitment 2019 thread
 

Recruitment orientation is August 10, open houses starting August 11.

http://www.uapanhellenic.com/fall-20...ry-recruitment

This is my favorite recruitment of the year. :)

Good luck to all the parents, PNM, sisters on the other side for the first (or last) time, and everyone else I'm forgetting to mention!

Good luck! I hope they’re taking extra precautions for the PNMs with next week’s horrible forecast! <3

It is hot right now! Mid to high 90s - feels like over 100- no real rain coming....

Our niece is rushing there this year! Excitement!

^^^ Carnation, Good luck to her!! I’m guessing you saw to it that she is well-prepared and submitted all the needed recs.
Keep us updated, please.

Sending up a prayer to the hair gods that everybody’s ‘dos stay looking cute!! Good luck Alabama PNMs!!

Any word on the number of registered PNMs?

According to UA's Panhellenic page it was at 2,281 PNMs.

"Here at the Capstone, we are proud to be a part of the nation’s largest and most diverse Greek community."

Or the 214th most diverse; it's hard to be sure.... ;)

[QUOTE=Sciencewoman;2468259]"Here at the Capstone, we are proud to be a part of the nation’s largest and most diverse Greek community."

Or the 214th most diverse; it's hard to be sure.... ;)[/QUOTE

Where are you getting this number from?

It's only been six years since UA recruitment was the subject of national scrutiny (and GreekChat discussion) related to lack of diversity/alleged discrimination, so the statement that the UA Greek community is now the "most diverse" in the nation raised my eyebrows. I'll leave it there, because it was not my intention to side-track this thread with my tongue-in-cheek comment. :)

Best wishes to all the PNMs and the chapters!

My girlfriends and I took a break from our husbands and drove down to Tuscaloosa together! We left from Chicago very early in the morning on the sixth, all five of us packed into the car, and we arrived yesterday. The men drove in their own car and the girls drove together.

We all moved the girls in after the storm had stopped, the men arrived just before us and did all the heavy lifting while us chickens did the decorating and organizing.

They’re my “nieces” and I’m their “aunt”, I’ve known them since they were born and they were close with my girls, I’m beyond excited to see them go through rush!

All together we have 20 recommendations written for Alabama, 4 for Chi Omega (I wrote 1 extra!), 4 for Phi Mu, 4 for Zeta Tau Alpha, 4 for Kappa Delta, and 4 for Pi Beta Phi.

We meet with a group of some other girlfriends and are sharing an Airbnb house while the men go off on their own vacation.

Anyways, I’m beyond excited to finally be here and experience Alabama recruitment! If anyone else is down in Tuscaloosa, I’d love to see them!

I hope you keep us updated with everything. This experience is foreign to me. Absolutely foreign. Decorating rooms?? SEC rush?? Emphasis on "cute"?? Staying while daughter go through???

I keep reading these stories. It's like a fantasy novel to me - a completely different world from what I know. Maybe if I read enough of them over the next 100 or so years I'll understand!

Thank you.

Thanks! She's so precious!

I found this amazing! These costs! I hardly pay even a quarter of these for my dues!

https://issuu.com/alabamapanhellenic...cial_documents

Keep in mind the required for all students campus meal plan is included as is room rent for those who live in.

If I can ask, have the dues gotten more expensive since you were on campus? These are just so shocking to me, is it because they did all of the beautiful new renovations, do you think?

Honey, I was in school in the 60s when we all had the old houses! Have you checked out how much dorms are now at Alabama? And they aren't renos - except for Chi O-they are all new houses.

Ordinarily it is less expensive to live in house than in apartments.

I’m in Tuscaloosa this weekend, and will return next weekend, to volunteer in the house. My daughter is a senior active. It is hot and humid! Praying for a successful recruitment for all.

I hope actives and PNMs all get to stay hydrated!

Not NPC, but it looks like the Kappa Beta Gamma chapter that was chartered at Alabama last year officially shut down (surprisingly, it was a United Greek Council member, not an CPC associate member--UGC covers social/professional and special-interest/social fraternities and sororities, as well as UA's one LGLO. ADChi, a Christian sorority, is a CPC associate member).

They had a fire alarm go off at a house earlier today that will make the day go longer. Poor actives and PNMs will be especially tired tonight.

I'm sorry to hear this. I was just wondering about KBG at UA.

Quoting myself for context... does anyone know why ADChi is a (the only) UA CPC affiliate and not a UGC member at Bama? It seems like they would fit in better with the current UGC members than CPC:

• Sigma Lambda Beta, a Latino based fraternity with a multicultural membership
• Theta Tau, a co-educational engineering fraternity
• Alpha Omega Epsilon, an engineering sorority
• Delta Lambda Phi, a progressive men’s fraternity
• Eta Omega Pi, co-educational fraternity for military veterans and their supporters
• Kappa Kappa Psi, a co-educational national honor band fraternity
• Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, a national fraternal music society
• Phi Sigma Pi, a national co-educational honor fraternity

It's Christian sorority not a educational, cultural,major specific, etc. group. It really functions as an NPC group but just isn't NPC and isn't a local.

:confused: It has been really difficult to locate 3 oz paper Dixie Cups in my area this month. Is this due to sororities being required to use the exact same type of small paper cup for their refreshments during recruitment?

Or have local kindergarten/elementary schools required each child purchase six boxes of small paper cups for their schoolroom for the year?

Small plastic cups abound in many stores, in multiple fun colors which would seem to be great for sorority recruitment use, but PAPER cups seem to be at a premium.

plastic would mean recycling or washing. No time for that! Paper it is...

The Dixie 3 oz and larger kitchen cups have been gone from our main grocery store for months (they were replaced by an off brand). I’m not sure if they have some sort of exclusivity deal with Walmart or if they are having production problems.

I finally logged into Instagram because the girls have been forwarding me photos of the interiors of the houses that they’re found! I thought I should post the beautiful decoration light in the Pi Phi house for philanthropy round one today!

https://imgur.com/a/r29kwTl

Jiminy Christmas! I was looking at the impressive light fixture overhead and then I realized that you were talking about the custom neon sign. Man....SEC recruitment is something else. :o

I can't see that much of a difference between ADChi's requirement that you attend a sorority-approved church and AOE's requirement that you have a sorority-approved major in terms of additional/specialized membership requirements that differ from NPC guidelines. AOE is a social sorority with specialized guidelines for members, as is ADChi.

Do they recruit like the NPC ones like ADChi does?

It's their choice to affiliate with the CPC or not. If ADChi wants to participate in Bama's CPC and be bound to whatever policies that entails, it's their choice. On that campus, AOE may have felt they were better served by the UGC.

In fact, AOE is a CPC associate member at many campus locations. Here are the first three I randomly grabbed:

Illinois: https://fsaffairs.illinois.edu/organ...aOmegaEpsilon/

West Virginia: https://greeklife.wvu.edu/about-us/pha

South Dakota State: https://www.sdstate.edu/student-life...ic-association

(The girls are Parakeet, Starling, Chickadee, and Dove)

IWT:

The girls went through their first official round of recruitment. They're all very different personality wise so I'm very interested in what houses everyone will pref.

They're all in separate rho chi groups so they're left Tutweiler at the same time and arrived at Tutweiler at different times, that'll change when rush really starts flowing but it's nice that they're all split up now so they can get their own first impressions from all of the houses without the influences of the group.

Everyone is a legacy and got to see their legacy house(s) these past days and that was especially exciting.

Dove and my daughter, Twizzler, were especially close when they were younger, born on the same day, they are the closest of friends. Dove's hoping, hoping, hoping, that she'll end up in the same house as my Twizzler.

Everyone was impressed by every house today and is excited for tomorrow. Everyone also had a lot to say about all of the lovely things each house had and how every sister presented herself so nicely.

My girlfriends and I walked the row today and yesterday, we visited The Trunk (the Greek store), and watched the sights and saw the scenes of rush week.

Philanthropy:

Cuts came to light this morning and boy, were we shocked. I've seen cuts happen but NOTHING like this. Hundreds of girls were cut, some entirely dropped, I'm in awe at how everything rolls so smoothly with each house.

All 4 girls are returning to 12 houses philanthropy round, everyone has a packed schedule but it came with a lot of surprises for everyone. A lot of the houses they were expecting to get back were not on their lists.

They read the rankings on Greekrank and are just now realizing that taking recruitment advice from an anonymous website may have been the wrong idea!

They're are also national rankings at Bama that the girls are learning about. Hierarchy of popularity and all. It's ridiculous because, at the end of the day, we're all Panhellenic sisters.

Laugh of the day:
A girl named "Mary Jesus" ran out of the house before Dove and when Dove heard her name, she said "Marry Jesus? That's what my great aunt did, she's a nun!" quite loudly to the active who was rushing her.

(I don't know if I'm allowed to list the houses they'll be returning to but if anyone is interested, PM me!)

That's all for my Alabama updates for these past 3 days!

Yes, you can post the groups' names-- we don't know who your girls are.

Dove:
ΔΓ, ΧΩ, ΑΧΩ, ΔΔΔ, ΦΜ, ΚΚΓ, ΚΔ, ΖΤΑ, ΑΓΔ, ΑΦ, ΓΦΒ, and ΠΒΦ

Chickadee:
ΣΚ, ΑΟΠ, ΑΓΔ, ΚΑΘ, ΑΔΠ, ΑΧΩ, ΑΦ, ΔΔΔ, ΑΔΠ, ΖΤΑ, ΓΦΒ, and ΔΖ

Starling:
ΔΔΔ, ΔΓ, ΔΖ, ΑΔΠ, ΑΟΠ, ΚΑΘ, ΑΓΔ, ΑΦ, ΓΦΒ, ΣΚ, ΠΒΦ, and ΦΜ


Parakeet:
ΑΦ, ΖΤΑ, ΔΓ, ΦΜ, ΔΔΔ, ΚΚΓ, ΓΦΒ, ΚΔ, ΧΩ, ΑΧΩ, ΑΓΔ, and ΠΒΦ.

ΣΔΤ was out yesterday and each of the girls went to see them on their breaks.

Glad that your girls are having fun with the process. It is exciting but can be overwhelming for so many.

The grade cuts this year were harsh and I think it took a lot of girls by surprise.

Greekrank is a flipping black hole and should not be taken serious by anyone!! Every sorority at UA is amazing and filled with great girls!!!