[ASTalumna06]

Small activities are definitely good! In an informal recruitment setting, you want to truly get to know PNMs (and you can't do that at an event with a ton of sisters and a few PNMs. A few sisters and a few PNMs works best). As a local who doesn't participate in any kind of formal recruitment, you have the luxury of doing whatever you'd like for "recruitment events." And you have all the time in the world! There's none of the "Ok, 30 minutes is up.. next house"-type restrictions. You can invite them to dinner, go to a play, have them join an intramural team with you, ask for their help with a philanthropy... anything! Use that to your advantage.

And don't feel as though every sister has to know all of the PNMs like the back of their hand. This is where "trusting your sisters" comes into play. While I don't want you to reveal any of your membership selection procedures to us, just make sure that you're choosing girls in such a way that allows the entire chapter to know her without actually "knowing her." I mean, think about sorority chapters with 100+ members. Clearly every single member can't truly get to know all of the hundreds upon hundreds of PNMs who walk through their door in a matter of 2 weeks (and sometimes less).

If I'm a sister who doesn't really know a PNM, but she looks AMAZING on paper, and the majority of the chapter thinks she'd make an outstanding sister, then I probably won't bitch and complain when they want to give her a bid.