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Hi...if any of you work with a campus considering doing something other than formal recruitment you should encourage the GA to speak with the NPC area advisor. NPC does have prgramming called "modified forms of recruitment" but its on a campus by campus basis.
I think the issue is not so much the format as the panhellenic spirit of the system Case and point -University of Maine. They had a quota of ONE the year before their area advisor came in the help them (oh and every chapter didn't make quota but some got quota additions -so pledged two) Anyway their area advisor went over the options and ALL the groups in the system said we want a formal rush structure. They worked at it, removed some of the restricitions on silence and how a pnm could be signed up for formal rush.
The result two year later quota is 9 (it was 7 the first year after NPC help) and even though all groups didn't match most did (even a chapter that didn't match when quota was one!) Oh they also used release figures and full party cards and other things.
Long story but the point is a formal rush system CAN work if a campus commits to making it work. But a half-hearted attempt followed by "oh well we will just COB anyways" the results are a half hearted pool of pnm's
Phew off the soapbox!
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