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Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
You go to Otterbein. Otterbein is not a typical college.
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exactly
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No, I know that I wouldn't fit in at many different schools...but that's the thing. Girls come through our recruitment dressed to the 9s, and there's also girls who wear PJ pants and "get away with it" (meaning it doesnt hurt their recruitment prospects). The flipside to all of this is the delayed recruitment...these girls have some sort of tie to sorority members, its inevitable, so appearance is perhaps not chief in importance. But in a situation in which recruitment is perhaps the FIRST thing you do on campus...appearance might be more important. I think as a general rule, there needs to be publicized, reinforced emphasis on "appropriate" dress code, casual, formal, or business. Most girls have no idea what is and is not, so being off put by a rushee's attire may point to the fact that something in the pre-rush communication is missing. However if it well advertised and well communicated to everyone going through rush that jeans are NOT acceptable and business attire is required (incidentally, business attire may need to be defined (pants, skirt, blouse, hard sole shoes comes to mind)) then fair game. And the arguement of "everyone knows it is like this" is sort of tricky...yes you have 1000s of PNMS coming through from the town who's great grandma is on your charter, but there's also that girl who is a first generation rushee and may need a clue.