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Originally posted by 33girl
My point is, why do they keep up this facade of "it's the chapter's responsibility" when it's well known that, as amycat said, going into an SEC rush w/ out recs is disaster straight ahead? Why can't they just tell the rushees to get them, and that each sorority will have slight differences within forms which the sisters giving the recs should know.
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I agree with you 110%... It would be easier on everyone if the rules were more clear.
I attended an information session for interested rushees in the Atlanta area a few weeks ago that was sponsored by the Atlanta Panhellenic Alumnae Council. Even the top women on the board there weren't able to tell the rushees if they should get their own recs or let the chapters be responsible for getting them! It seems to be a very confusing topic for everyone, alumnae, collegiates and rushees alike.
In the end, one of the past presidents of the alumnae NPC "strongly suggested" that it would be in the rushees' best interests to do everything that they could to get recs on their own, and that the NPC women in Atlanta would be glad to help them if they needed to contact someone for a rec. They gave out forms/applications for the girls to review and mail in if they couldn't find a particular org's alumna on their own. I think that is their way of helping to deal with the confusion. And, apparently, it works sometimes, because that's how two girls got recs from me last year.
But I still agree with you -- there's got to be a better, more clear-cut way.