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Let's just say that more than half of the women dropped out that paid the registration fee. (I'll give official after recruitment is over)

I don't know why, it just seems to be happening more in the last two years. And they did do a great deal to promote greek life this year - so who knows.

We did a pilot program for NPC a few years ago which was like the partially structured model and the other model that I can't remember the name of (the one where they can go where they want) and it was catastrophic to say the very least. (at least I think so - I think Dani might agree with me too).

I think fall formal recruitment is the best time to join at pitt- there's just soo much excitement behind it. It's a shame the these women don't realize it.

And the weird thing is - I don't think that the attrition can be associated with dirty rushing and whatnot - so who knows. And grades are really good for ALL the groups.

BTW - If I remember correctly Pitt has over 300 some student organizations, so we have a lot of competition from outside arenas. The Greek population is less than 10% of the campus population.

ETA: Panhellenic has a shuttle running through to the Kappa. So they don't have to walk.

They promote formal recruitment at the student activities fair. Tables throughout the few weeks. They handed out fliers at one of the orientation event. There were fliers in the orientation folders and they put fliers in the on-campus mailboxes. I think part of the problem is that our greek community is too closed off. There isn't anything they do that really is campu wide as a community. Another thing is that a great deal of sophomores go through recruitment and maybe since the fliers only reach freshman we should try to reach out to older/non-traditional students, you know commuters and the like.