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Originally posted by honeychile
I'm sure I'm far from the only alumna who hears Recruitment Party plans and thinks, "Should I say it or not?" So... for those of us who have to pick their battles wisely when dealing with a chapter, I thought maybe some alumnae could tender some advise here.
I'll start by stating that Recruitment really needs to be cost-efficient. One of the very best Recruitment ideas I ever saw was done by Alpha Epsilon Phi at Pitt. Instead of having 5 conflicting theme parties that caused Set up > The Party > Clean Up > Tear Down > Redecorate for five days straight, they stuck to one basic theme, and just tweaked it to a different subtheme every day!
The Sisters were more on the ball, because they were refreshed, there were no late night fights over "But I did it LAST night!", and I would imagine that the costs were kept down.
Any other pearls of wisdom?
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We avoided the second half of this problem by assigning every girl in the house to one of three parties that they were responsible for coming up with ideas, shopping for supplies, making decorations, putting up and taking down decorations. Girls were more likely to help out if they knew they only had to do it for one party rather than all three and fewer people got burnt out that way. (Unfortunately I got stuck with second round parties, which had about twenty times the set up and take down of the other parties -- I think I'll aim for Pref night crew next year
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Ditto on the original theme and skits -- this year FOUR houses here did Hollywood-themed first parties (unfortunately we were one of them). If your skit isn't going to be the best, or at least drastically different from the other ones, don't bother.