[nauadpi]

NAU does a lot of what these other schools seem to do... Our rho chi's or the head of greek life (depending on how many women get cut, most years none) call the women who are cut... Then all the other women at around 10am meet at the soccer stadium... It is at the bottom of a hill, and the top of the hill is the all greek res hall... They all sit there, and then the sororities come down sings and cheering at the top of their lungs. When the pm's show up they are given an envelope. They do not open it yet, and are told to sit on it... So they sit up in the stadium seats on their bids, while the sororities are down on the field... Then the Rho Chi's do their revealment (usually they were layers and layers of other sororities letters then theirs on the bottom)... They all take each layer off to the music... It is very entertaining, and each of the sororities cheers when they see their letters, even if it isn't one of your sisters... Then after the rho chi's join their sororities the pm's are told to open their envelopes... Then they run/walk down to the field to join their new sisters... The women who don't get a bid from the house they want will sometimes slip out the back during all the madness...

Overall it works pretty well... Having been the sorority who normally doesn't take too many women during formal recruitment we are always there excited to take the women we get... The other factor that works ok, is that women who decide they are very unhappy will generally just leave and walk off in the maddness...