Alabama Recruitment

[BlueCarnation]

Originally Posted by OTW

http://www.cw.ua.edu/type-a-flu-vari...ties-1.1816998

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Cases of the Type A flu virus — a variation of “swine flu” — have appeared in the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority house, coming only days after the end of fall recruitment, said the sorority’s president Stacy Summerville.
Five or six girls had been diagnosed, Summerville said, but the sorority’s house has not been quarantined. To keep others from getting sick, she said they have been cleaning the house with Lysol on almost every surface.

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We have recruitment in two weeks, and I am terrified of this happening!

[Txborn]

Originally Posted by OTW

http://www.cw.ua.edu/type-a-flu-vari...ties-1.1816998

[qipte]
Cases of the Type A flu virus — a variation of “swine flu” — have appeared in the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority house, coming only days after the end of fall recruitment, said the sorority’s president Stacy Summerville.
Five or six girls had been diagnosed, Summerville said, but the sorority’s house has not been quarantined. To keep others from getting sick, she said they have been cleaning the house with Lysol on almost every surface.

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My daughter told me during rush there were suspected cases of the flu in the PNMs. they were using hand sanitizers all day long.

[FSUZeta]

it could be that they wanted abc sorority at bama, which did not invite them back. at ole miss they may want the same sorority, or another one might be deemed more worthy.

the likelihood of word getting around that they had been enrolled at bama, rushed, dropped out of rush and transferred to ole miss is pretty low. bama had over 1200 pnms on the first day of recruitment and ole miss will have a boatload too.

[bama]

This was a big problem in the past. Girls knew how competitive rush is at Alabama so they would go to smaller schools (UNA, JSU, etc.) straight from high school, join whatever they thought were "top-tier" sororities at Alabama or Auburn, then transfer and try to affiliate. Chapters at Alabama just stopped taking them. It just becomes obvious when 10 or more girls from from one chapter at UNA transfer to Alabama after only a semester expecting to be taken right in.

[Titchou]

We used to have a term for these smaller school chapters - they were called "feeder chapters" because that was the main function for them - to feed members to the larger school chapters. Was really prevalent in the 80's here.

[Bamamom13]

Texas APhi,
My daughter calls the company that takes the pictures Zaps. They bring proofs to the houses than the girls or guys can order from the proofs. She has never mentioned that you can see them online.

[Loyally Kappa]

Zap Professional Photo, Inc.
P.O. Box 2666
Tuscaloosa, AL 35403

http://www.zapfoto.com/

And Bamamom13 is correct. You cannot view the proofs except for in the house.

Originally Posted by Bamamom13

Texas APhi,
My daughter calls the company that takes the pictures Zaps. They bring proofs to the houses than the girls or guys can order from the proofs. She has never mentioned that you can see them online.

[Texas APhi]

Loyally Kappa and Bamamom 13, thank you for the information about Bid Day pictures.

[Loyally Kappa]

You're very welcome. As it is, I received an envelope with photos in the mail from them today and the envelope just happened to be right in front of me ... heheh!

Originally Posted by Texas APhi

Loyally Kappa and Bamamom 13, thank you for the information about Bid Day pictures.

[Titchou]

As is SDT - Rho chapter

[Loyally Kappa]

For the sake of anyone reading who does not know what a single letter chapter means, (correct me if I'm wrong) the founding chapter is Alpha, the next one colonized is Beta, the next one is Gamma, and so forth and so on using the letters of the Greek alphabet. Once all the letters are used, like any good cryptograph, the next round begins with double letters. So a single letter chapter is usually pretty darn old and well-established.

Did I remember that right?

[SWTXBelle]

Originally Posted by Loyally Kappa

For the sake of anyone reading who does not know what a single letter chapter means, (correct me if I'm wrong) the founding chapter is Alpha, the next one colonized is Beta, the next one is Gamma, and so forth and so on using the letters of the Greek alphabet. Once all the letters are used, like any good cryptograph, the next round begins with double letters. So a single letter chapter is usually pretty darn old and well-established.

Did I remember that right?

For the most part - AOII does something completely different, and Pi Phi uses a system that combines the state with the alphabet - Texas Alpha, Texas Beta, etc., for example. But yes, many NPC groups use a sequential Greek alphabet system.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by Loyally Kappa

For the sake of anyone reading who does not know what a single letter chapter means, (correct me if I'm wrong) the founding chapter is Alpha. . . .

And just to confuse it even more, if we bring fraternities into the mix, even this isn't true. The founding chapter of Kappa Sigma is Zeta.

Meanwhile, the first seven chapters of Lambda Chi were (in order) Alpha, Gamma, Epsilon, Zeta, Iota, Lambda and Beta.

[Psi U MC Vito]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

And just to confuse it even more, if we bring fraternities into the mix, even this isn't true. The founding chapter of Kappa Sigma is Zeta.

Meanwhile, the first seven chapters of Lambda Chi were (in order) Alpha, Gamma, Epsilon, Zeta, Iota, Lambda and Beta.

Psi U is the way. It was Theta, Delta, Beta, Sigma, Gamma, Zeta then Lambda. Learning Chapter roll was a royal pain.

[gphib_95]

Did anyone ever get a final count on all the sororities new members? I tried counting but my eyes went cross.