[33girl]

It's all well and good to say that interviews can be replaced by icebreakers and group events and such. The problem is that not everyone is comfortable in a huge group and if there are pledges or sisters who are on the shy side, it will be hard for them to get to know other people. Interviews provide you with a chance to get to know EVERY sister, regardless of whether she's campus queen or the quietest girl in the room - it impresses upon the pledge that EVERY MEMBER IS EQUALLY IMPORTANT.

If there are people being bitchy about giving interviews or during them, the pledge mom should be immediately notified and those people disciplined. Setting down ground rules (i.e. you have to schedule interviews, you can't make the pledge go to a weird location to get your interview, can't go more than 15 minutes) help keep the situation from getting uncomfortable.

I would like to take all the idiots who screwed up interviews for the rest of us and slam them against a wall. Sorry to be so vehement, but this is a subject I really feel strongly about, and I believe getting rid of something so productive for a small number of a-holes is one of if not THE WORST decisions the NPC groups have made.