Some answers!
Ok to answer some of your questions. Yes, there is a SDT chapter at Purdue but they are fairly small and do not have a house. It is hard to be a large sorority on campus when you do not have a house. It makes it that much harder to compete. SDT holds all of their meetings in Hillel, the Jewish student center. I know they are a NPC sorority, but they don't participate in formal rush here.
As far as why we are doing split recruitment.... I know a lot of you had theories, and they were good ones at that... hehe. But the main reason is because there are so many luxury apartments that keep going up here. Every year a new one goes up and now there are so many apartments (actually too many!!) and people start signing leases early. This was one of the ways that we thought we could keep girls from signing leases before recruitment. It's hard to ask girls to live with 2 or 3 other girls in a room together... when they could have a 14x16 room, with their own bathroom, free tanning, cable and high speed internet... all for the same price. What usually happens is that girls that were thinking of rushing (quality women at that!) decided to just "look" at apartments... and they are so nice, that they sometimes wind up signing a lease and don't rush at all.
We're trying split recruitment this year... but we'll be voting in Panhel some time next semester about doing rush over fall break next year. Honestly, I'm all for that idea.
And they don't have to wait 2 months....
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