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Ladies,
Thursday night was terrific! The new Greek Advisor was able to talk the administration into letting us use the new classroom building for Open House night. Here is the set-up: each group was given a classroom to use for conversation. We served ice water only (which probably helped in gettting us the building- not a lot of damage can be done by plain water!!). The classrooms were clustered next to each other. It was interesting to see how the three organizations set up their rooms. Our group created clusters of 4-5 desks around the room. PNMs and members sat at these clusters to talk. Another organization moved the desks out and everyone stood around to talk. Another one pushed the desks to the side, and had chairs set up around the room in small groups to talk.

The PNMs were split into three groups, and each organization had three parties that night. The PNMs wore jeans or khakis and t-shirts. Some wore the Recruitment t-shirts, but it wasn't required. All sorority members wore some sort of school shirt: SGA polos, athletic team jerseys, shirts from the campus store, and a variety of t-shirts from school events. Absolutely no sorority shirts were allowed. No door chants were allowed on this night.

Our girls had the cutest name tags! They were made to look like diamond rings, with silver glitter making these HUGE diamonds on top of the rings. Names were written in the circle of the ring. The other organizations wore simple square "Hello, my name is...." name tags.

I was amazed at the quality of women who came out for Recruitment. We had 71 arrive that night, and another 8 have registered since then!!! The night went very smoothly, no glitches. It is going to be hard to make cuts (for other than grades) on Sunday night, because so many of the women are fantastic. I would estimate that more than 4/5 of them have two or mote of these characteristics:multiple clubs, leadership positions, community service, talents (drama, choir, musical instruments), athletic ability and grades (above 3.2).

Registration continues until Sunday afternoon, so we won't have a true idea of how many women will be available until then. We will find out Sunday night how many we are required to cut. The computer (ICS) will tell use how many we are allowed to invite back. Some time on Monday I'll let you know how things go Sunday night. This is so exciting!!!