I was Honors College but not at Alabama. How important is that event to the rest of your college experience? Personally, it would matter a lot more to me to participate in recruitment and find a lifelong sisterhood than it would to hang out with the honors college people. Unless there is some reason that missing that honors college event would totally derail your academic career, that is a no brainer to me. Go for recruitment. No, it may not turn out, but at least you won't have the what ifs the rest of your life.