Wow! Less than fourteen days left until the opening of UF Recruitment! The more I sit here and read your replies, the more excited I get! As I've mentioned in another post I'm on Recruitment Exec this year and while I've experienced recruitment as both a potential member and as a chapter member I'm more excited than ever to actually be a part of making recruitment happen and being a Pi Chi! I wanted to shed a little bit of light on the whole switch from Rho Chi to Pi Chi...
Recruitment Exec was approached this year by our dean who informed us that we were one of a growing minority of schools that had not changed our name from Rho Chi's to Pi Chi's. The name Rho Chi was never even official and had simply become a shortcut for saying "Recruitment Counselors." It wasn't until we started actually printing Rho Chi all over shirts and bags that the actual Rho Chi fraternity national headquarters wrote to National Panhellenic and asked colleges to change the name. So we, as UF Panhellenic, really had no choice in the matter and it was either this year or next that the change would come.
Just as a side note...some of the other names that we considered were Rho Gams(Recruitment Guides- this is the one that FSU uses I believe)and Pi Rho Chis(Panhellenic Recruitment Counselors). In the end, we just thought that Pi Chis was the shortest and sweetest!
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