Mermaid Girl,
I have two suggestions for you.
1- Please go and speak to your campus' greek affairs office. The greek adviser is going to be the best person to:
A-explain your campus' recruitment process
B-be a liason between you and any issues you may be having with a particualr groups recruitment process (i.e-she can contact advsiors and seek information as a third party)
2- Please also keep an open mind. It pains me for you to call out two great organizations negatively. Each chapter is unique and I apologize for the difficulty you are having, but each org on a national and chapter level has ups and downs.
I wish I knew more about your campus? I could have missed an earlier post, but could you break it down?
-Number of orgs (national and local)
-when is recruitment (formal/informal)
-who can be a PNM (credit requirements?)
-how are the orgs organized (houses, suites, rooms on campus, etc.)
I am from a small campus also and there were plenty of women who went through recruitment more than once, sometimes more than twice. Many found homes, some became part of a new colony, some are still independent.
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Originally posted by MermaidGirl
Well, actually, after I rushed for ADPi (winter semester informal rush), I don't think they let ANYONE in. It was just me and this other girl who rushed (my school is tiny, and there are fewer than 20 girls in the chapter, I think), and the other girl (rushee) left like, five minutes into the first event, because she thought they "weren't friendly enough." My good friend from Alpha Phi told me that that girl had shown up at one of their events, and then chewed them all out over the dues. (The girl in question kinda has some issues, she's currently in a snit with the Student's Representative Council because she doesn't think they're giving her enough money for designing the student directory book....I'm on SRC, so I'm kind of in a hard spot). But yeah, anyway, I felt sorry for this girl, so I tried my best to be nice to her, and whenever I ran into her around campus, I'd be friendly and say hi and just talk to her about whatever. She still really wants to be in Alpha Phi (I can't imagine why, they had horrible problems this past year), and I feel kinda sorry for her, because I know she probably won't get a bid, because she was rude to the girls. Anyway, what am I saying? Maybe I did something that was as bad as what this girl did to the Phi's, but, like her, I just don't see it, but to the ADPi's, it's a huge thing that's absolutely unforgivable.
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