[fire1977]

I want to make it clear that I am talking about this entire campus not just this particular organization, and I'm definitely about to get on my soapbox.

I'm familiar with this campus and they are currently working to fix the situation. However I will point out that it is not uncommon for them to have a quota of 2 during formal recruitment and then miraculously COB 100 some women within the next few weeks. They need to get those women to go through formal recruitment and quit sabatoging the process. It's not as bad as it was before, especially since they lowered total, however it is still a problem. Also there is general apathy among all students here in regard to joining ANY student organization, not just greek life.

They've had an NPC consult and it was the decision of the group that came to continue with first semester fall formal recruitment.

I think ALL of the individuals in those groups on this particular campus need to examine why they joined their organizations and strive towards those values. You also need to listen to what your greek advisor is saying because she is trying very hard to increase the number of people in your Greek system but she can only show you the path, you have to decide to travel that road.

Plus the campus environment isn't a very friendly one. I was walking to recruitment on this campus and the PNM's were meeting with their recruitment counselors. There were two unaffiliated women walking in front of me and said, "oh look at me, I want to join a sorority I'm a sheep".

You can hang fliers and put signs up all you want. My question to you is how often do you pay attention to those things? You need to get out and talk to women about why it's great to be greek and provide them with the opportunities you are talking about. Don't say you value academics when all you do is party...that kind of thing. You wouldn't be happy if you went to the supermarket to buy a bag of chips and then opened it up and found it full of rice, right? Do what you're supposed to do as a system and then to an extent you will get some PNM's to come. Each woman in your house should try to get at least 1 woman to sign up for formal recruitment. If each sorority did that, going on what total is for your campus you would have at least 200 women going through.