Dartmouth Sorority Rush Oct. 8-17, 2004
 

Dartmouth sorority recruitment begins October 8, and ends with Bid Night on October 17, according to an article in today's [I]The Dartmouth[I].

Six sororities, three NPC and three local, will be participating:

Alpha Xi Delta, Delta Delta Delta, and Kappa Kappa Gamma are the NPCs; Epsilon Kappa Theta, Kappa Delta Epsilon, and Sigma Delta are the locals.

Well that's interesting. What happened to the President's desire to "end Greek Life as we know it"?

If anyone's interested in a little Dartmouth history, all three of the locals there are former NPC chapters...KAT, KD, and SK respectively.

Everyone was against it and alums threatened to withdraw donations. Money talks.

The thing that sucks is they really need another sorority but the college is not allowing them to expand. I think Theta Nu Xi was trying to come on campus but I'm not sure if that worked out.

And actually, KDE was created to replace Xi Kappa Chi, which was originally Alpha Chi Omega. Kappa Delta has never had a chapter at Dartmouth.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~atheta/cfs-history.html

I got a headache trying to read that website. Whoa is all I have to say

Re: Dartmouth Sorority Composites Stolen, but Retrieved
 

It really does look like Tri Delta's. The crest and the colors look like theirs. :)

Here's your results

http://www.thedartmouth.com/article....=2004102001010

After 20 hours of meeting and greeting and countless more spent deliberating over potential new members, Fall term sorority rush is complete.

With approximately 250 women placed in the six sorority houses, pledge class numbers ranged from 32 girls to 46. The Class of 2007 showed a slight preference for national house over local ones.

Panhellenic Council President Krista Sande-Kerback '05 said the discrepancy in numbers at various houses is no surprise.

"The numbers go in cycles," Sande-Kerback said. "Some houses have higher pledge classes one year and smaller classes the next. It keeps the houses even."

The first Fall rush since 2000 and the first recruitment period to be held in the middle of the term provided houses with a few extra logistical problems. Midterms and athletic competitions conflicted with rush for current members and rushees alike.

"We made the schedule in the spring and at the time we didn't have access to test time and dates," said Panhell recruitment chair Meredith Willsen '05. "We expected some conflicts, but a lot more things came up last minute."

Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority rush chair Victoria Corder '05 said rush's timing made it seem an overwhelming commitment for many involved.

But even with a high number of sophomores rushing and little time to prepare, the houses mostly pulled their acts together.

"Sororities really made a point of saying we need all sisters to participate to make this successful," said Sande-Kerback. "The houses were really organized and worked hard to accommodate large rush parties."

Panhell uses a computer program widely used for rush around the country to match girls and houses, according to Willsen. As a result, much of the rush process is based on formulas and numbers.

Still, the program leaves room for input from individual house members.

"We use formulas for the number of girls invited back each round," said Willsen, "but it also has to do with the fact that there are a limited number of invites a house can have. Ultimately, it really is based on the preferences of the girls in the house."

That the process depends so heavily on a computer program became a problem when Willsen's computer crashed before round two of rush. The program had been backed up, she said, and though it slowed down the process, invitations and house preferences were not compromised.

Prohibited communication between rushees and house members contributed more confusion to an already confusing process.

Some sorority members were surprised to find what they thought were inconsistencies between house consensus over particular rushees and the party and bid lists Panhell ultimately provided.

But Willsen said any surprises in the process were not Panhell's mistake but a result of inaccurate gossip about which rushees favored which house.

'There were a lot of miscommunication between sisters and rushees, all of which is not allowed by Panhell, that resulted in gossip and rumors that were found to be not true," Willsen said. "We should have been stricter about rush infractions."

No rush infractions have been filed at this time, however.

Still, a large number of those rushing found they had only been invited back to one house for Preference Night, although a rushee can receive up to two invites on this night.

Willsen said this year, many houses made more cuts earlier in the process.

Houses also have the option of offering open bids to those women who did not rush, did not receive a bid, or dropped out of the process.

Even though the majority of sophomore women interested in rushing did so this past week, Panhell plans for a formal winter rush period for those not on campus.

Ow...my brain hurts from all this. Talk about a complicated rush. I read that website about Greek life @ dartmouth. Anyone think it's odd that there's a Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity? I remembered the Saturday Night Live skit about the KKK sorority girls....

slight hijack -
There are 2 Kappa's from Dartmouth in my office - there used to be a third, but she just left to go get her Master's. They were all active at the same time. They are very sweet girls. :)

Numbers
 

According to this article, here are the results:

Alpha Xi Delta - 42
Delta Delta Delta - 48
Kappa Kappa Gamma - 48
Sigma Delta - 38
Kappa Delta Epsilon - 43
Epsilon Kappa Theta - 35

Of course, open bidding is still ongoing. The article did not mention anything about total/quota, so I don't know how many more each group is seeking to recruit.

Since the thread was straying way off topic, I moved the "history' portion of the thread to this new location:

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...threadid=59464

Thanks!