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Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum
I have mixed feelings about most of the rules.
I don't want to see girls be promised bid that they don't receive and I don't want to see groups undermine other groups by suggesting that PNMs not rush them.
But on the other hand, the IFC groups seem to get by with a pretty much free for all, and it seems like there'd be a happy medium.
I think every group should give out an information package for the PNM to take with them. Maybe they could submit them to CPC and CPC could even make the copies to make sure people didn't change them. The info could have the usual trivia about the orgs, and a breakdown of very realistic financial information that the girls could look at really carefully later and tell their parents about without having to be worried about what the group would think.
It's hard to think of info. packets as being a bad thing if everyone did them.
To me the only thing wrong with favors was that the groups competed and got excessive. There's no reason to ban girls taking a napkins or even plastic cups out of parties.
A campus culture that involves reporting groups for PNM taking napkins, talking to family friend during rush, or using the wrong shaped beverage glass, isn't healthy or productive, and if that's what recruitment rules with even the best of intentions yield, we need re-think it all.
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Well said, although a lot of campuses do info booklets that get handed out at registration or over the summer or something.
Baylor's get handed out at registration, I think. Either then or in the fall informational session, but I know it's early. There's pages about each sorority, costs for each, recruitment regulations, and a little bit of everything. I really like the one big book because there's a lot of emphasis on why going Panhellenic as a whole is a good idea in there as well.