At the University of Toronto, we have open houses, where girls got to check out each house (we have 7 sororities on campus) for 2 nights (girls were made to do 7 houses in 1 night or if they had conflicts- half 1 day and half the next or all the 2nd day), then theme night, then pref. last year, theme night was changed to philanthropy night. i think this has decreased the rush budget which was also getting out of hand.
I think most chapters on campus preferred theme night b/c it's hard to come up with a meaningful philanthropic activity for nm's to do in 30 min. that somehow relates to your international philanthropy. i know that we have been looking to our American sisters for help in this aspect.
i think this year will go alot better though b/c we know what's expected and have a lot more ideas.
