New Thread about "Naming Names" during Recruitment Week
 

Ok, I can't scroll through 10 pages of replies anymore!

I think we've come to a consensus that in the interests of good taste, the PNM's will post the names of the sororities at their school so we know what chapters exist there and then they will assign themselves a theme (i.e. Hogwarts Houses, Luxury Cars, Types of Flowers, etc.) and in describing their recruitment experience, they will use this theme so the Greeks Chatters can get their vicarious thrills (wink)

I.E-- President's Theme (just a sample!)
Washington House: we may later learn this was Theta
Lincoln House: Tri-Sigma
Kennedy House: Pi Phi
(FYI these were random names that popped in my head)

You get the idea. The PNM won't "trick" us by changing the names (i.e. if ADPi is "Carter House" after Round 1, she won't call it "Johnson" the next day), and by the end of recruitment we will know the true identity of the final house they bid to. If at that time the PNM chooses, she will tell us which house was which in her theme naming so we can go back through and relive it... all over again. hee hee

So, if everyone likes that (cause personally, ABC, 1-2-3 really confuses ME, but I understand the need for doing this), how bout if you lovely ladies (PNMs) post your GC name, university, the sororities at your university, and your theme under this thread! :)

And if you HATE this idea, well, that's ok, too. I still LOVE everyone of you and I can't wait for our PNMs to go through Recruitment!

Greek Love,
me

I think I'll be doing colors

Here are the Greek Organizations at my school:

Alpha Chi Omega
Alpha Delta Pi
Alpha Gamma Delta
Alpha Phi
Chi Omega
Delta Gamma
Gamma Phi Beta
Kappa Alpha Theta
Kappa Delta
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Pi Beta Phi

These organizations will be represented by eleven different colors!!

Please see my recruitment thread here

** edited to add: I think I would definitely get annoyed looking at numbers as well! **

That is a really, really good idea. I can't keep "ABC" "XYZ" and all that straight. :)

Ok, I'm calling dibs on Hogwarts houses!!
At Wichita State there are

Alpha Phi
Delta Delta Delta
Delta Gamma
Gamma Phi Beta

I don't know of anyone at my school who's on GC, but I'll still try to keep it all positive and clean ;-)

Ok, my theme is going to be states! I go to Penn State University and the sororities at my school are:

1. Alpha Chi Omega
2. Alpha Delta Pi
3. Alpha Omicron Pi
4. Alpha Phi
5. Alpha Sigma Alpha
6. Alpha Xi Delta
7. Chi Omega
8. Delta Delta Delta
9. Dellta Gamma
10. Delta Zeta
11. Gamma Phi Beta
12. Kappa Alpha Theta
13. Kappa Delta
14. Kappa Kappa Gamma
15. Phi Mu
16. Pi Beta Phi
17. Sigma Delta Tau
18. Sigma Kappa
19. Sigma Sigma Sigma
20. Zeta Tau Alpha

Yikes! Good luck! I think your is going to be one of the harder ones to keep track of, with 20 diffrent houses!

Holy crap!!!! How many houses do you go to each day?? I thought narrowing down 8 sororities was hard, I couldn't do 20!!

I believe Penn State has a two-week recruitment. I have two friends who are PSU alum of ADPi and Tri-Sigma, and they said it's quite a "rush." :)

This week because of early homecoming, its been compressed into 10 days.

Open Houses:
Friday- 10 parties
Saturday- 15 parties

First Rounds:

Sunday- 8 parties
Monday- 6 parties

Second Rounds

Tuesday- 6 parties
Wednesday- 8 parties

Pref

Friday- 3 parties

Can I just say WOW! Holy crap! I know how confusing it's going to be for us GCers, but it's going to be even harder for you! Good luck, honey!

aj

WOW!!!! Okay, I edited to make a little joke - but how are you going to keep track? I'd have to keep some kind of journal to write what I thought of each sorority at the end of the day to make sure I could remember them all. I guess if you have your 4 or 5 favorites out of that 20 though, you won't need to write down things to remember them.

That reminds me - we have recruitment before school starts, so all the PNM have to live in dorms for the week. Well one day, a girl on my hall and I felt kind of guilty for not workout out in the past 3 days, so we decided to go run the stairs in the stairwell. I guess some girl was actually keeping a notebook as a journal, and for some reason left it open to the page where she was writing what she thought about all the sororities in the stairwell of all places.

So uhm, if you do keep a journal - make sure you don't leave it somewhere!!

OK, I am still totally confused. That's 25 parties, and if there are 20 sororities .... ?

Heck, I'm just impressed with anyone who can make it through rush with that many chapters. I'd drop dead of trying to make any kind of rational decision!

I think there are 25 parties to make sure that EVERYONE makes it to each sorority. From what I've heard, rush usually starts out with 800 women and that if you make it to Second Rounds and you keep an open mind, you will get a bid to a sorority.

From the "honeychile can be such a geek" files:

Do y'all realize that the only NPC sororities which AREN'T on Penn State's campus are:


AGD
AST
AEF
QFA
FSS
DFE

??????

whoa...seriously craziness!! I think that it's awesome that Penn State has such a huge greek system, but I can't imagine having to choose between sooo many houses!!

What is the average amount of girls in sororities at Penn State??

Average=73
The data below is from the Greek Website at PSU from 2000-2001 SY. Quota=23 (plus 1 jr.)

Delta Delta Delta 92
Zeta Tau Alpha 92
Alpha Chi Omega 87
Alpha Sigma Alpha 87
Alpha Xi Delta 87
Chi Omega 87
Pi Beta Phi 87
Kappa Delta 84
Kappa Kappa Gamma 84
Alpha Omicron Pi 83
Delta Zeta 83
Gamma Phi Beta 82
Sigma Delta Tau 82
Alpha Phi 81
Kappa Alpha Theta 80
Delta Gamma 79
Sigma Kappa 77
Alpha Delta Pi 69
Sigma Sigma Sigma 62
Lambda Delta Omega 22
Alpha Gamma Delta 19
Phi Mu 18

That's what will happen at the University of South Carolina for the 1st two rounds. There are 8 GLOs participating in formal recruitment, but there will be 10 1st-round parties. The way it was explained to me is that they are doing this so that there will not be as many PNMs at one party. The PNMs will have 2 party-free periods. I think the GLOs will not get a break.

Sounds like a good idea to me. With so many PNMs going through, it makes sense to have less at a party so they can meet more actives.

I am unabashedly excited for these threads! I LOVE RUSH! Can't help it:) and yes, I called it RUSH!
And I love the idea of the theme names! I'm totally dyslexic with numbers so keeping the House:1, House:2 information straight was pretty hard for my crazy little head.
I'm trying to think what name theme I would have chosen if I were on GC as a pnm now....
I'm thinking maybe women's authors, I would have liked matching the writer with the sorority:
Bronte Chapter,Austen Chapter, Alcott Chapter, Millay Chapter,
Eliot Chapter, Allende Chapter, Rowling Chapter, Morrison Chapter
Or, the other thing that kept me sane during rush was my candy binge with my roommate every night after our parties so I could have used the names of my faves: Snickers House, Twizzlers House, M&Ms House, Reeses House, Lollipops House etc...
Good luck to all you fabulous PNMs...we who love value our chapters depend on your interest to keep our soroities going. I wish you all the very best recruitment experience one could ever have, and I thank you all for letting us be a part of it!
violets

That is a REALLY good idea. I will be sure to read that one.

This is the newer info for 2002-2003 before spring rush. On the recruitment website ( http://www.greeks.psu.edu/phc/recruitment/reports.htm ), they have the statistics from last fall's recruitment:

Quota was 18 or 20. I don't know what junior quota was.

Alpha Chi Omega 81
Alpha Delta Pi 56
Alpha Omicron Pi 77
Alpha Phi 75
Alpha Sigma Alpha 83
Alpha Xi Delta 87
Chi Omega 83
Delta Delta Delta 85
Delta Gamma 76
Delta Zeta 83
Gamma Phi Beta 73
Kappa Alpha Theta 70
Kappa Delta 87
Kappa Kappa Gamma 78
Phi Mu 49
Pi Beta Phi 77
Sigma Delta Tau 76
Sigma Kappa 72
Sigma Sigma Sigma 58
Zeta Tau Alpha 79

My campus: MTSU (Middle Tennessee State University)
I got real creative with my GC name... MTSUGURL

Sororities

Alpha Delta Pi
Alpha Omicron Pi
Alpha Chi Omega
Delta Zeta
Zeta Tau Alpha
Kappa Delta
Chi Omega

Recruitment Dates

August 15 Orientation
August 16 Values Night
August 17 Philanthropy Night
August 18 Theme Night
August 19 Preference
August 20 Bid Day

A theme... a theme... I'll use countries I haven't been to that I want to visit (France, China, Japan, Ireland, Portugal, Italy, and Spain).

The name of my recruitment thread is another testament to my creativity. You can find it under "my recruitment thread".

penn state info
 

penn state rush (i still call it that, cuz with 20 sororities it is a rush!) is shortened this year due to home football games, religious holidays, the fact that we're starting later and homecoming is the last week in september. i'm gonna be a pi chi this year and the schedule is mad insane. all of the girls are given little booklets to keep track of the sororities they see each day. any other questions or comments about our recruitment pm me! :) oh and if you make it through and are get at least one invite to pref nite, then you're guarenteed a bit. otherwise there are no guarentees you'll get a bid. most women who go to all of the parties they're supposed to get a bid.

Actually, there's an AST chapter on Penn State's Erie Campus.

the penn state we're talking about is the main campus at university park. there are 19 other campuses in the penn state system. most though are 2 year schools and then they transfer to main campus.

I know that you were talking about Penn State-Main. I go to school about 40 mins away, and I do happen to be in State College a quite bit. I was just pointing out that there was an AST chapter....just not at University Park.

I love the idea someone had about naming the four sororities she'd be rushing after the Hogwarts houses. I have to wonder which one will be Slytherin!

Won't it be funny to read "I just loved Slytherin!! The girls were all so nice and so kind!"

OK this is sad...I haven't read any of the Harry P books, so can someone please explain to me why it might be bad to call a house "Slytherin"? Is it kind of like picking M*A*S*H* characters and calling it the Frank Burns house?

If I was a PNM I would use gemstones. Emeralds, Rubies, Diamonds, Pearls, Sapphires....

That would be fun!!

Slytherin is the house in Harry Potter that all the mean and evil students that torture Harry and his friends are in. It's also the house that Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters were in (all the villains, in other words.)

I once thought about that too! Though, I remember last year someone pointed out that, since many sororities have jewels as a part of their tradition/symbols, it might not be a good idea. In other words, people might assume that the Ruby house is Alpha Omicron Pi or something.


.....Kelly :)

That's exactly what I was thinking. And of course she could label Slytherin as a house she didn't like. All in all it's gonna be entertaining.

Ha, yeah, but I don't know that many GC'ers are going to get the M*A*S*H reference (at least not the collegians).

I would so understand the MASH, would the Klinger character be the cross dressing group and Hot Lips be the party group?

I'm the one with the Hogwarts houses! I've already figured out which house is going to be Slytherin. i randomly picked, and it isn't a house I dislike, cause I like them all so far! It would be kind of weird to say I joined Slytherin, but I'll do it if needed! I hope it doesn't sway my judgement, I don't want to automatically love Gryffindor and dislike Slytherin. I'll probably end up in Ravenclaw anyway, I'm kinda bookish and nerdy lol!

The Carnation Twins were going to use gems last year and then everything happened so fast...it seems like we were finally able to assign gems to houses that had nothing to do with the gem. Lemme see, we had amethyst, emerald, ruby, opal, turquoise, and topaz. Maybe we'll try those again!

My dad was in a MASH unit... They actually showed his unit during the final episode of MASH.

I want to let everyone know what the chapters do on Philanthropy night, so I'll put a description with names, and then use my country names to post my feelings about the groups without details about the activities. I want to feed the addiction with more than, "I liked house 5, I didn't like house 6."