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Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby
Two things I haven't seen mentioned yet:
Mock recruitment with other chapters. We'd actually go to a chapter and be rushed, and then they'd come to our chapter house and we'd rush them (do other campuses do this? It seems totally weird in retrospect).
Rules, rules, rules. Panhellenic officers would come by and talk to the chapter and so on.
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We did do the mock recruitment as well, with one major difference- the fraternity gentlemen were the fake "PNMs", rather than the other sorority women. With only three sororities, that time of year is always a little hyper competitive, so we would have never gotten constructive feedback from them. The men were pretty good at saying "Wow, you're really good at making me feel comfortable!" during our feedback time at the end of the mock round, or the opposite, even though their rush was so dissimilar.
Of course, the gentlemen were fond of "funny pranks"- I distinctly remember one pair of guys teaming up, tying their arms together with a belt, and calling themselves Siamese twins through one mock round. Actually, one of them was a groomsmen in my wedding... We always told our sophomores (or newest new member class) "If you can recruit these guys, you can recruit anyone!"
ETA: We called the week leading up to recruitment "Pride Week". Those weeks are truly some of my most treasured experiences- it was so nice to just spend time with my sorority sisters without the stress of classes and homework!