January Recruitment
 

Good Luck to our chapters who are selecting new members this time of year. I know there are quite a few who have Formal Recruitment during this time of year... Let's try to list all of the chapters. Help me out here -- add to the list!

Alpha Lambda, Valparaiso Univ.
Beta Alpha, UPenn
Beta Delta, Thiel College
Beta Lambda, Carthage College
Chi Alpha, Tufts
Chi Beta, Purdue
Epsilon Lambda, Furman Univ.
Eta Lambda, American Univ.
Iota Alpha, S.M.U.
Iota Lambda, Villanova
Lambda Gamma, UVA
Mu Kappa, Duke
Mu Lambda, Univ. of Dayton
Mu Zeta, Adrian College
Nu Alpha, Stanford
Phi Mu, Lehigh Univ.
Pi Epsilon, Roanoke College
Rho, Tulane
Rho Gamma, Hillsdale College
Rho Lambda, Univ. of Delaware
Sigma Alpha, Miami Univ.
Sigma Epsilon, Vanderbilt
Sigma Lambda, Virginia Tech
Tau Delta, Gettysburg College
Tau Gamma, Wittenberg Univ.
Theta Kappa, Baylor
Upsilon Beta, Rollins College
Upsilon Lambda, Hanover College
Xi, Northwestern
Xi Lambda, Washington & Lee
Zeta Alpha, The Ohio State Univ.
Zeta Lambda, Wake Forest

sorry for the board crash, but my sister is a chi-o, so hopefully it's ok:)
Your newest chapter at Washington University in St. Louis is participating in formal rush, which I think starts on Monday. Good luck to y'all on their first crack at formal recruitment at Wash. U. It's nothing like formal rush, but Wash. U. has had only 5 sororities for a few years (and the 6th that used to be on campus before Chi-O had a few years of VERY low numbers)...so having a 6th again will be interesting for everyone.

Thanks for letting us know! You're welcome here anytime :)

Nu chapter at UW-Madison is doing informal spring rush!

SMU
 

Here are the results from Iota Alpha Chapter at SMU:

Quota was 51 and we took 54 New Members.

Wake Forest
 

Congrats to our Sisters at Zeta Lambda Chapter on their quota class of 47 new members!

Here's an article from the campus newspaper:


Delta Zeta, other sororities build up their ranks
By Stephanie Bennett
News Editor

January 15, 2004


The campus sororities, including newcomer Delta Zeta, concluded their recruitment activities Jan. 12 with a new dry Bid Night event held in Benson University Center.

Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta, Kappa Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma and Pi Beta Phi sororities filled the 47-pledge quota set by the Panhellenic Council. Phi Mu and Delta Zeta failed to meet the quota.

The new Bid Night festivities held in the Benson were a mixed blessing for involved parties.

On the one hand, sorority leadership was very positive. “We had a ball,” Millie Pelletier, a senior in charge of Chi O recruitment, said. “It was a great way to get to know all of our new members.”

She added, “We all had a great time running around, getting facials and hand massages, as well as playing bingo and dancing the night away with a wonderful DJ.”

However, because all the pledge classes were in Benson together, it was “very awkward for girls to see other pledge classes to which they didn’t get accepted,” a concerned member of Tri-Delta said. “There were some wet eyes in the crowd.”

Robin Porter, coordinator of Greek affairs, agreed that there were “definitely a few kinks that we have to work out.”

“It’s so different from what all of the women are used to doing, but I think overall it was a great experience,” she said. “This year’s recruitment was extremely successful.”

“Eighty-five percent of the women were matched, meaning that they were offered a bid into a sorority,” Porter said, which is “right in line” with past years.

Both Porter and the new Panhellenic president, sophomore Erin Smith, were happy with Delta Zeta’s recruitment and success.

The new sorority, according to Porter, currently has a pledge class of about 40, though the current on-campus liaison from the national organization, Ashley Patton, said that DZ’s bids will not be finalized until Jan. 19.

Since Delta Zeta is still in the process of colonizing at the university, they “could accept women who did not go through the actual recruitment process, that focused just on Delta Zeta,” Porter said.

Some sophomores and juniors interested in helping start up the sorority did select to skip recruitment.

However, “the majority of their new member class came through the regular recruitment process,” Porter said.

In addition, Porter added, the group will have continuous open bidding throughout the fall semester, which allows for the possibility of another pledge class in the fall.

Panhellenic and the other sororities seem pleased with Delta Zeta’s success. “Having Delta Zeta here added a whole new level of excitement,” Porter said.

Porter believes that the national organization representatives did a lot of preparation in the fall semester to set up its success during Rush.

“They have done so much on campus to advertise, to really get a feel for what campus life is and how Greek life plays into that. Ashley really spent a tremendous amount of time talking with women, talking with even the fraternities, really getting a good understanding of how things work,” she said.

Smith agreed. “They really worked for it and got results,” she said.

Chi O’s Pelletier was also congratulatory. “We … are thrilled to have another sorority on campus.”

On the heels of DZ’s success, however, comes the news that Phi Mu did not fill its quota for the semester, with a pledge class of 28 at press time.

The women of Phi Mu sorority will also be able to have continuous open bidding, as Panhellenic allows “any chapter that doesn’t reach quota (to) continue to take women throughout the fall semester,” Porter said.

However, neither Porter nor Smith, a Phi Mu herself, finds this decrease to be a serious problem.

“They’re doing just as much as every other chapter to support each other and make sure that they are successful – everything from recruitment to making sure that their academics are good,” Porter said.

Smith was also positive about her sorority.

“They’re treating it as a challenge that they’re going to overcome. It is bringing the sisterhood together as we work toward this.”

Pref tea for Epsilon Lamda is tonight. Bid day starts tomorrow at 3. :)

Quota should be somewhere around 32.

Good luck to all with rush! Keep us updated!!

Epsilon Lambda here at Furman University - Greenville, SC - got quota - set at 33.

DDD, ADPi, and KD also got quota. KKG and DG extended somewhere around 20 bids - and gave snap bids to others who had mismatched and what not and both came close to a full pledge class.

Lots of happy girls on this campus today!

Great news! Way to go, Epsilon Lambda Sisters!

Don't mean to crash your thread but I want to congratulate a very new Chi-O... my niece accepted a bid today for the Chi O chapter at Miami of Ohio. While I would have loved to pin some wine and blue on her, she fell in love with the Chi Os and they were her first choice

Karen, thanks for letting us know. I'm sure with her strong Panhellenic background, she'll make an excellent member. Hey, by the way, our Executive Director at HQ is from the Sigma Alpha Chapter at Miami.

Chi Kappa at GMU has started an informal spring rush. We had two events last week, but because of our initiation this week, I don't think we'll have any more events til February 7th, but I'll keep you posted!

Theta Kappa I know made quota but I don't know how many juniors or "plus" they got.

Congrats to Chi Omega!

:D

ETA: quota was 50 (sorry I forgot to add that!!!!)

I thought I'd let y'all know that the Xi Lambda chapter took quota of 37 women!