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Originally posted by PM_Mama00
I find it kinda weird that the guys feel the need to include sorority girls in their recruitment. The Delt Sigs on our campus only allow brothers at their rush events and they do pretty damn good on their own.
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I would like to address this. I wouldn't say fraternities feel a *need* (i.e. have to) include women during rush per say. As you pointed out, there is a chapter on your campus that only allow brothers at their rush events and they do well. And that is all well and good for them.
However, on other campuses, having sorority women help out is not only allowed but a nice touch as it were. Something more akin to Babs and Mandy - The Omega Name-tag Hostesses from
"Animal House" - than say Paris Hilton in a tube top and Daisy dukes "going wild". But to be clear, the chapter sells the brotherhood to the men rushing, not the women.
Generally speaking there is a big difference (rules, guidelines etc.) between IFC rush and NPC recruitment. Please note that even the terms generally used are different. i.e. recruitment for sororities and rush for fraternities.
Generally speaking, fraternity rush is all about getting as many of the best men that fit with your chapter that the chapter can. In most cases, there isn't anything like house total or quota unless it is chapter imposed. So any advantage a fraternity chapter can use - be it having sorority women "help", having live bands, or having a barbecue - is going to leave a better impression than those chapters that don't have anything "fun".
And I bet dollars to donuts that if you were to ask many men, that they might find the concept of the NPC formal structure for recruitment a tad bizarre. Quota and house totals? And the whole skits and making get well cards out of elbow macaroni at craft night. I tell you what. I bet if an NPC chapter *was* allowed to have well dressed fraternity gentlemen politely escorting the PNMs into the chapter house and waiting on the PNMs, it would leave one hell of a positive impression on those PNMs. And yeah, that's one of the reasons why NPC does not allow men. To give an 'unfair' advantage to any one group.
Which goes back to the difference between IFC rush and NPC recruitment. It is *ok* to be different and "not equal" - as it were - during IFC rush. Those men who enjoy the certain events will rush those chapters. Those who do not, will go elsewhere. Which may be why there are often more fraternity chapters on a campus than sororities.
Viva la différence.
edited for spelling