[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Adding to this, my campus had a quota of 50(ish) and I wouldn't consider it competitive. So there are definitely larger quotas out there on non-competitive campuses. Just a point of information. Y'all can get back to what you were doing.

I understand. I don't think there's really any way to get from those stats to knowing what most people's experience was like, and as I said, I don't think SEC-type recruitment is anything like the norm.

Originally Posted by carnation

We did not deal with that issue when I was in college because it absolutely never came up. This is a recent development in college life.

Really? Do you think the girls at UGA going through recruitment are fatter today than they were in the past? Is that what you are seeing with girls from your hometown?

I know that as a country we are fatter, but I don't think the segment of society that goes through recruitment at competitive recruitments is experiencing this tread in the same proportion as the rest of society.

Originally Posted by 33girl

This is yet another one of the reasons I'm such a proponent of deferred rush. I think a lot of women would approach rush differently if they had a semester (at the least) to get to know the sorority members as people in everyday situations. Maybe they've heard the reputations more, but maybe they've also met women from the sororities who've helped them form their own opinions.

There'd be a lot of benefits to deferred recruitment if PNMs and group members interacted like normal people in the time before recruitment, but I don't know that it would actually help with this kind of image-based junk at the campuses most likely to have it. Like de-frilling recruitment, most efforts to make recruitment better at these campuses might really just give people more time to focus their energies on the wrong stuff.

Originally Posted by dgdramadawg

DG has a program called Well Aware which promotes physical health. But there is a difference between promoting health and forcing sisters to work out... I don't know of many sororities that require members to work out or list it as a national goal.

At least officially. If there really is one out there telling overweight members to stay away from recruitment as was alleged in the first post, that will be a pretty motivating program. (Either to exercise or drop membership, of that you can't be sure, but the chapter will lose some weight.)

Any to all those who wish death to the thread, I don't get it. Why do you read junk that you aren't interested in?