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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06
Do these sorts of scenarios happen often with the "pre-recruiting/dirty rushing" going on?
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Every year.
Daughter is now graduated, but she knew several local girls who were bombarded with notes and invitations to parties both their junior and senior years...invitations to stay at the sorority house and go to the fraternity parties...and many of them did go.
Her own group's alumnae hosted summer teas in Mobile and Birmingham, and they continued to send small gifts to top choices, even through recruitment. E-mails to members (she told me; I never looked myself) always admonished members "don't tell ANYBODY" because of Panhellenic sanctions.
If you're going to have a chapter at Alabama, you dirty rush or you die. It's just the way it is and always has been.
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Originally Posted by baci
I really wonder how any PNM at that age or even a freshman in college really know what it truly entails to be part of a sorority.
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Of course they don't know! They might have a clue from an older sister or friend. Some of them think they know because they've been in a high school sorority. Somebody who thinks she knows where she's going could be right...but often she's wrong. It's one of the things I like so much about the new recruitment method where the bigger chapters are forced to drop more PNMs earlier. They then
have to take another look at the smaller groups if they want a sorority. Unfortunately, many believe "it's XYZ or nothing" and they just drop out (see Ole Miss!). And that's why I wonder if UA would truly support another 2 groups.