New Mexico State Univ., which has 5 NPC, chapters holds recruitment the third weekend after school starts in the fall.
(see their greek system web page -
http://www.nmsu.edu/~gogreek/ )
This is a school where many of the students are the first in their family to go to college and have no ties to the greek system. IFC and PC spend the first three week heavily promoting recruitment with sign up tables and information sessions.
NPC recruitment has events Thursday evening, Friday evening, Saturday afternoon, Sunday afternoon, and bid given out Sunday evening.
Pros: everyone is living in their permenant housing and have gotten into their routine and started classes. There is time for publicity and to get more women to sign up to give recruitment a try.
Cons: Three weeks into school and there are already large assignements due. There is some conflict with classes Thurs. evenings. RCs and recruitment staff must find somewhere else to live for 3 weeks.