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Danielle,
Thanks for bumping this. I can't believe some of this things I have read. As a former Recruitment Counselor on a Florida campus, I can tell you this:
The interview process. When I went for my interview, I felt like I was being interrogated. The newly elected Panhellenic Exec and Recruitment Exec, as well as each Chapter Recruitment VP and Chapter President, sat a long horse-shoe shaped table. The Prospective PX sat at her own table, in the front of the horseshoe. You were asked questions about your motivation for being a PX, disaffiliation, scenario-like questions, bias, etc. At the end of 30 minutes you were excused, and the next night, the "PX Bid List" was posted. It was like getting into another sorority! We even had a PX Retreat where we were "initiated" into PX, played getting to know you games and reviewed things like first aid and recruitment policies. We met weekly to review recruitment rules, had to put 5-10 hours in each week at the Greek Affairs Office answering phones and processing applications, represent Panhellenic at Student Orientations, etc. That entire summer, we were not allowed to wear our letters, nor be around anyone wearing sorority letters. Greek Letters on your car? Off they came! The head PX had a vanity license plate that read "KD2NV" and she would trade off with her roommate, who didn't have vanity plates. Official Strict Silence began the night before Greek Forum, and all of Recruitment Exec and Pan Exec and PX's moved into a hotel. No one was allowed to be alone-- you had to be with another PX at all times who was not one of your own sisters, or you were in trouble. At parties, you were not permitted inside your own house to monitor, and at prefs you were not allowed to even be stationed outside your own house. Our role was to be there for the PNM's, not our own sororities. On Bid Day, it never felt so good as to be wearing my own letters again!
Our Panhellenic also rotates through sororities so there is no monopoly on who is on Pan Exec. The Pan President would never come from the same sorority two years in a row to ensure fair representation.
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