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Originally posted by KappaKittyCat
Okay, first the terminology:
Pledging = Pledging
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Just wanted to add, not all sororities use the term "pledging"....I know that ADPi does not use the term pledge or pledging at all anymore, since we have Alphas (NM), Deltas (Initiated members), and Pis (alumni members)
At my university, we had four rounds: Open "House" (really open chapter room), Philanthropy, Skit (yes, we did do a skit!), and Preference)
I guess our university has what you'd all call "frills" recruitment (it doesn't seem very frilly to me, but that's my personal take on it!) We served ice water first round, McDonald's orange punch second round, root beer/cola third round, and sparkling cider and cake fourth round. Decorations tended to be pretty simple the first two rounds, and then third and fourth rounds were a lot more elaborate.
I believe Recruitment budget at our school is $1000 for everything, so the Formal Recruitment chairs need to turn in receipts for EVERYTHING that is used for this week....not doing so can mean a fine for the chapter from Panhellenic.
We still encourage conversations and a feeling of "fitting" within a chapter even with all the "frills" of our recruitment. I think we just want to make the PNM's see a little more about our sisterhood than they'd get with such shortened recruitment parties (I think the longest ones are 50 or 55 minutes long for preference night).
We have to dress similarly every night (skit night is the only exception for those actually IN the skit), and we even start it the first round where every sorority is assigned Panhellenic shirts with the theme for recruitment on them and then every sorority listed on the back of the shirts (each sorority is given a different color of text on the front of their shirts to differentiate between the chapters).
(KKC, I don't want you to think I'm jumping on everything you said, I just wanted to add perspective from another university and sorority
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