Fun Rush Article - Texas Girls Take a Look!
 

Here's an interesting article about sorority rush from an alumnae perspective - excellent reading for you southern gals!

it was a cute article...except that they referred to the alumnae as former members. these women seem to be active as they mention that they write reccs. it is just weird...must be the person who wrote the article.

It is likely that they refer to the women as a "former XYZ" because UT and other Texas universities don't use the term alumna/e/i, they use "former student" or "ex-student". Coming from Ohio/ Michigan, I find it strange to see car stickers proclaiming someone to be a member of the "Texas Ex-student Association" and not the "Alumnae Association". I don't think the author was making a statement regarding dedication, or involvement but was simply using local terminology.

Yep. If any member of XYZ violates any NPC FR rule, the entire chapter gets a rush infraction... at least that's how it works at my school. That's why we stress how important it is to be aware of & follow the Panhel rules. :)

One statement that confused me in the article was "Dallas girls will pledge anywhere".. I find that a little hard to believe. Most schools up here are just as competitive as others.. esp. at places like TCU, SMU, and Baylor.. where they have girls who will only want to pledge certain houses. As amazing as it may seem, there are even some like that at UNT (and most of UNT's students are from Dallas or the surrounding area)... and UNT isn't really a huge greek campus either.

I thought that pretty well described recruitment around here. At my school, dirty rushing definately happened alot every year. It frustrated me because the bigger chapters were able to get away with it for some reason, while the smaller chapters were more likely to get caught. If you know anything about the greek system at A&M, you will probably know which houses I'm talking about. :(

I could be wrong, but I didn't think a punishment of "no new member" was allowed, through panhellenic. Green book readers, can you answer this?

That is correct - you cannot punish a chapter for a recruitment infraction by limiting the number of new members they can acquire.

hmmm that's strange!! for some reason I remember our recruitment ppl telling us last year that if we get so many rush infractions we could be "kicked out" so-to-say, of FR... maybe they were just trying to scare us so we could really know and understand the rules :p

I'm pretty sure they told us rush infractions do cause the chapters to get a fine though..

Just to be nit picky.........Does the writer NOT know that the plural of alumna is alumnAE and not alumnI?????

And is that our SMU house in the picture????

As a side note, I hate this rule, because chapters can "accidentally" take extra girls during informal, and nobody can do a damn thing.

How so?? On my campus, you could only do imformal if you weren't already at chapter total. And I definately don't see anything wrong with that. It give the smaller chapters a chance to get their numbers up.

Chapters cannot have the amount of members they take limited through the school's Panhel. However, I have heard of national HQs using this as a disciplinary measure (Panhel having nothing to do w/ it).

Chapters can be disallowed from participating in formal rush, but they cannot be prevented from taking new members completely - it infringes on freedom of association rights.

Do you just mean during FR? My understanding is this- EVERY chapter does FR and can get quota no matter how many members they have. BUT, once FR is over, only chapters below chapter total (on my campus this was around 185) were able to continue recruiting through informal and COR.

So, even though total at my campus was 185, most chapters had 200 or 250 because quota during FR was so high.