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1. If your recruitment is delayed, how do you charge new members dues? If we delay recruitment until early November they will miss 2/3 of a semester. Does anyone have this problem already and if yes, how do you handle it?
Our recruitment is delayed until the beginning of second semester, so they pay dues for that semester.
2. What are the rules at your school surrounding disaffiliation for Pi Chis/Rho Chis/Rho Gammas (whatever you call them at your school)?
We do not have Pi Chis/Rho Chis/Whatever. The Panhellenic representatives from the houses usher the girls around during recruitment. They do not have to disaffiliate and their affiliations are pretty common knowledge.
3. What are the rules at your school surrounding contact between sorority members and freshmen women?
We are allowed to talk to them, etc. They cannot come over the the sorority houses, Greek women cannot give rides to freshman women, there can be no lending of clothes, money, and such between Greek and freshmen women. The situation is treated as if every freshmen may rush, so they are all treated the same.
4. Do you find that most PNMs have already made up their mind about which group they want to join before Formal Recruitment begins?
Kind of. We really struggled with that at my school - "labeling" the PNMs.... "Oh, that girl is definitely going to go XYZ," etc. Or, assuming that a girl definitely would go Pi Phi because of a comment she made during first semester. Certainly, the freshmen get a chance to get to know all the houses, meet the members, see maybe the good and bad aspects of Greek life and each house, and hear all the stereotypes, whether true or not. I think that during first semster, the PNMs defiinitely get a feel for which house(s) they may fit best in. Conversely, we get a feel for which freshmen maybe would fit best in which houses. My chapter is getting a lot better about not making assumptions about PNMs based on their actions or things they've said.
5. If you have recently switched from Fall to Spring, did the number of women registering for Recruitment drop drastically?
N/A. However, our fraternities recently switched from a deferred rush to a fall rush (with a winter rush, also). It hasn't so much affected their numbers as it has affected the way their houses recruit, elect officers, etc. because their larger pledge classes are now typically in the fall.
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