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Originally posted by coffeemug:
Personally I am very much against Panhel structuring informal/COB so much that it ends up being what I call "formal-informal rush" I mean what's the point if it is basically formal all over again. It never helps the smaller groups, costs more, and is more likely to cause friction between sororities than just COB.
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Oh, at my school (6000 students, 15% greek) I would say exactly the opposite. When I was in school we had formal and structured informal. We didn't have large houses - just off-campus places - so there really wasn't much difference. The only difference with informal was the sororities could have things off campus or in their houses instead of in campus meeting rooms. I went thru structured informal and if there wouldn't have been a mutually agreed upon schedule I don't know WHAT I would have done.
If you have total COB in spring, with freshmen mainly joining in fall, that makes sense. If they decide to go for COB they probably have an idea what it's all about by then. My school now has an idiot Panhel advisor who thinks it's a great idea to have total COB in the fall. May I add that the freshmen (who are allowed to join in the fall) usually have no clue?? May I add that rush numbers are 20% of what they used to be? Grrrrr. (end of vent)