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Originally Posted by FSUZeta
i am not targeting your campus per se, because as i said i see this at my daughters campus(and other campuses)too. it is tiresome to feel that you are continually planning and holding recruitment events-you get burned out on recruitment. believe me i know! since no one on your campus is at total, it is not as big a deal right now. but i do think that panhellenic should re-evaluate the total figure and possibly lower it.
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My campus was much the same way. We had formal in spring and a structured informal in fall. In between times, some of the chapters held open bid parties. We had them about once a month. Usually, the women waited till the next big pledge class to begin pledging (until the dumbass who I referenced in another thread disallowed that).
If you've never done it and you're used to thinking rush = big parties, skits, huge effort, takes up every minute of your time - of course it sounds horrid. COB parties are usually nothing more than a light theme, girls over to the house or suite - kinda like a house party with no boys and no booze. It's NOT the same as formal rush and that is why so many chapters moan and freak out when they're told to do COB. They've never done it and think rush party = all the things above. Part of
recruiting rather than
rushing means knowing the difference between the two.
At places where there isn't huge Greek interest, it's really the better way to do it, I think - rather than put all your eggs in the formal rush basket. There are women who would be great members who just don't want to go through the hype of formal - not to mention the upperclassmen who know "I want to pledge ABC or nothing" and IMO, they've been there long enough that if that's what they want to do, they should be allowed to do it if the chapter has spots.
I do agree with you that this campus needs to lower total if no one is at it, but I've heard of regional/national officers making a stink about that or saying things like "you don't need to lower total, you just have too many sororities. Get rid of one and you won't have that problem."
susan314 also referred to this in her post above.