I Can Let My Secret Out Now!
 

Wow! I've been dying to post this ever since I found about it over a month ago, but it had to be kept under wraps until this week. So let me tell you what "this" is! (I apologize beforehand for the long post.)

At my school, we don't have Spring Recruitment, formal or informal. Those sororities who don't take in total during Formal Recruitment during the Fall simply COB all year long. My chapter is rather small, because we're doing some rebuilding. Total on campus is 65, and we're currently at 31. So the Lambda Gamma chapter of Delta Zeta and the Zeta Psi chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha have teamed up to have our own joint COB/Informal Spring Recruitment.

Zeta has only a couple of spots open, while we have 34. They, however, have had very little experience in COB, because they consistently make total or more each year during Recruitment, so they wanted to learn from us. They also want to help us with our numbers. Both sororities know that taking in 35-40 more women between us will make the Greek system as a whole a lot stronger, because the system on our campus is fairly weak, and Greek relations, in most cases, are even weaker.

I won't bore you all with all the technical details, but I will tell you our plans for this COB party. This week, all the sisters of DZ and Zeta are plastering cars with flyers, stuffing campus mailboxes with flyers, hanging banners up around campus, advertising on the radio, TV station, and newspapers (campus and local), and putting posters up all around town. We'll all be wearing letters all week, too. Next week, a Zeta and a DZ will team up to go knock on people's apartment and dorm doors to talk to them about our respective philanthropies and invite them to our big COB party on March 9. The night of the party, Zetas and DZs will team up again to go pick up the girls who want to come. Then, we'll have our party and offer bids to the women we like.

All the DZs and Zetas are EXTREMELY excited about this. Nothing like this has ever been done on our campus before, because, like I said earlier, Greek relations, especially between sororities, are not so great. I'll be sure to let you all know how it goes. Who knows? It might even become an annual event. I'm so excited!
:D

ETA: We've even got a catchphrase for it...all our big "sheet banners" and flyers say "Delta Zeta Tau Alpha." I couldn't tell you how many people have asked us what it means!

That sounds like a great idea; and a lot of fun! It's so great to see DZ and ZTA being so "panhellenic" and I hope everything works out well for both houses.

Keep us posted! :)

that's great!!!!!! i love hearing 'bout stuff like this. gives ya warm fuzzies!

marissa

That's a cute idea to put the two orgs together like that. Good luck!:)

that sounds wonderful! good luck!

Good Luck! Ahhh the Panhellenic love!

Rock on! Crowns to ya'll!

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sweet!!

What a wonderful idea! Best of luck to both the Delta Zetas and the Zeta Tau Alphas! :)

That's reallly cool and I hope it works out well for all the Delta Zeta Tau Alpha's. Way to show unity in an atmosphere were greek unity is not embraced.

Good Luck and I wish you ladies all the best .:D

How I WISH something like that would happen at my school!!! That is so awesome.

wow that sounds really cool. what a great way to promote unity amongst the organizations.


Allison

D*Phi*E

i am so proud
 

of delta zeta and zta! you girls rock!good things will come from this! i hope that our national magazine and dz's both pick up this story-it is certainly worthy of publishing! lisa

Yay! An update!

On Sunday night during our meeting, my sisters and I got our shirts for this big joint COB. (You know about sorority girls and T-shirts.) Anyway, I wanted to post the drawing on the back of the shirts on this board, but no one has a hard copy that I can scan into my computer, so I'll just try to describe them. They're mint green, which is my favorite color! I think the women on the planning committee decided they'd pick that color since it's kind of a combination between veaux green and turquoise blue. On the back is a kind of cartoon drawing of two girls playing dress-up. One girl is wearing a crown, and the other has on lots of diamond jewelry. The slogan is "Every girl dreams of wearing diamonds and crowns...DZ and ZTA, making dreams come true." It's really cute!

After our meeting, we had a conversation workshop with Zeta to talk about what we're going to say to PNM's when we go knocking on doors this week. We were also divided up into groups for our visits. My group, which includes 5 Zetas and 2 DZs, are going to visit the freshman dorm tomorrow to try to get people to come to our COB. I'll be sure to update you all about how it goes!