Wow! I've been dying to post this ever since I found about it over a month ago, but it had to be kept under wraps until this week. So let me tell you what "this" is! (I apologize beforehand for the long post.)
At my school, we don't have Spring Recruitment, formal or informal. Those sororities who don't take in total during Formal Recruitment during the Fall simply COB all year long. My chapter is rather small, because we're doing some rebuilding. Total on campus is 65, and we're currently at 31. So the Lambda Gamma chapter of Delta Zeta and the Zeta Psi chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha have teamed up to have our own joint COB/Informal Spring Recruitment.
Zeta has only a couple of spots open, while we have 34. They, however, have had very little experience in COB, because they consistently make total or more each year during Recruitment, so they wanted to learn from us. They also want to help us with our numbers. Both sororities know that taking in 35-40 more women between us will make the Greek system as a whole a lot stronger, because the system on our campus is fairly weak, and Greek relations, in most cases, are even weaker.
I won't bore you all with all the technical details, but I will tell you our plans for this COB party. This week, all the sisters of DZ and Zeta are plastering cars with flyers, stuffing campus mailboxes with flyers, hanging banners up around campus, advertising on the radio, TV station, and newspapers (campus and local), and putting posters up all around town. We'll all be wearing letters all week, too. Next week, a Zeta and a DZ will team up to go knock on people's apartment and dorm doors to talk to them about our respective philanthropies and invite them to our big COB party on March 9. The night of the party, Zetas and DZs will team up again to go pick up the girls who want to come. Then, we'll have our party and offer bids to the women we like.
All the DZs and Zetas are EXTREMELY excited about this. Nothing like this has ever been done on our campus before, because, like I said earlier, Greek relations, especially between sororities, are not so great. I'll be sure to let you all know how it goes. Who knows? It might even become an annual event. I'm so excited!
ETA: We've even got a catchphrase for it...all our big "sheet banners" and flyers say "Delta Zeta Tau Alpha." I couldn't tell you how many people have asked us what it means!
I Can Let My Secret Out Now!
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