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There are a lot of ways to change recruitment, and there are schools where it is done differently even now (my school, we went to all houses for the first two parties, and it was interesting how your opinion could change just those two nights - and this was after a full semester of seeing Greeks on campus!). But one problem is that, regardless of the merits of any proposal, some schools simply have too much invested in the current system.
At some schools, for example, rush is before school even starts. If you were to slow down rush or eliminate formal, suddenly you'd have to find more dorm space for those girls instead of having them move in immediately. And most campuses already have housing crunches. I'm sure there are more examples, but this one comes to mind.
I was reading this doctoral thesis today. It was published about 10 years ago but dealt with the formation of the sorority system through 1930. She quoted some sorority leaders of the time. They didn't like the rush system back in their day and age either, but they concluded that until a more efficient system could replace it, they were stuck with it. Some things don't change!
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