Colorado Recruitment & House Totals?
 

Hello all,

I received the CU alumni association magazine in the mail yesterday, and there was an article on sorority numbers declining since 2002. If my memory serves me correctly, formal recruitment quota was 65 in 2003, and this article reported that quota is down to 35 for spring recruitment 2008!

A couple of questions:

Has house total been adjusted to reflect the lower number of new members? (I think it was around 165 in 2004.)

Are any of the sororities been having difficulty filling their chapter houses, which sleep anywhere from 65 to 90?

CU Sorority Recruitment Down
 

Hi,
I think it has to do with a deferred Spring rush. We used to have formal rush in the fall. Now the anti-greek bigots are influencing women not to rush, because these numbers are low, if this is accurate. I was in Panhellenic and the University and most students were not friendly to GLOs.
I may call my house and find out what is going on. I was president of their AAC.

Univ. of Colorado
 

The number of pnms has gone down at the Univ.of Colorado. Our chapter there was founded in 1929 and I recall the days of quite large pledge classes. Our Tri Delta chapter house has a capacity of 69 women. In 2006 and 2007 the Deltas were named Chapter of the Year.

According to the website our GLO pledged 33 women in 2007. The number of new members for 2008 has not yet been posted on the site.

I think that the Greek system is going through some difficult times right now, and I will be interested to see how things pan out over the next several years. I graduated from CU before they went to deferred recruitment, so I have not seen first hand how this has affected the chapters but, from Quota going from 65 to 35 in less than 4 years is crazy, esp. for a Big XII school. I hope everything comes together, being Greek at CU was one of the best experiences I had at college.

According to the DG forum, quota this spring was 45 and DG took 46. Hopefully, that is a good sign that things are getting back on track!

Both of our sons were in the greek system at CU and the university is very anti-greek. The fraternities refused to go along with the deferred rush and seem to be holding their own (if they can behave themselves!). When we were on campus in the fall there were signs up for sorority recruitment. I asked our younger son about it and he said that the sororities have fall recruitment for transfers from other colleges. Perhaps the figures that are on the website are only reflecting the "freshman" rush that was completed in January. As an aside, the university must really be wanting to kill rush to have the girls standing outside in Colorado in the winter waiting for the parties to start. Just wait until their donations drop in 20 years and they realize that greeks are the biggest donors to schools.

It seemed all the girls were rushing and the school never seemed to have a problem with it. I agree with GatorDG though.
This year though recruitment is in the fall.

CU rush and CU policies
 

While I was on set, taping a show, the daughter of the makeup woman was there wearing a CU tee shirt. I asked her if she was in a house, but she didn't go thru rush with her friends. She said they all wanted Pi Phi, but Pi Phi released them all in the first day or two. Some pledged DG and ChiO, but some dropped out because they didn't get Pi Phi. She mentioned DG was rather strong with the PNMs. I haven't heard anything except heard that Pi Phi took over quota and so did DG. She said CU is not supportive of the Greek system, but girls still want to join a sorority, especially the out of state students, because they seem to be selected by the "top houses". This deferred rush is another way of discouraging girls from pledging, especially with the snow. Maybe the chapters what to go back to fall rush if this doesn't work for them. If girls are mad at the chapters because of shoes and snow, they need to realize it's not the chapter's fault but CU's biased anti-greek attitude.

If the chapters go back to fall rush without the school's OK, the school will derecognize them. Some NPCs will not operate at a school where they are not recognized.

Colorado has gone back to fall recruitment, starting Fall 2008. Not sure the reasoning behind it, but it sounds promising.

http://www.colorado.edu/greeks/recruitment/

Wow! I was taking a look at the CU Greek Life site and the sorority houses are pretty big! They must have been able to maintain numbers the past few years, in order to keep their houses... :confused: