UGA Recruitment Winds Down - Page 9

dgdramadawg · #**121** 08-18-2008, 08:11 PM

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Originally Posted by I.C. a Pi Phi

I heard quota was 58, and the rest are QA's.

I just heard 55 for quota. Does anyone know for sure?

GreekAlphaSoup · #**122** 08-18-2008, 08:13 PM

http://www.uga.edu/panhellenic/

Check here tomorrow or the next day.

shadden · #**123** 08-18-2008, 08:16 PM

My daughter said 58, but looks like most groups are taking more than that.

GPhiBLtColonel · #**124** 08-18-2008, 08:16 PM

It was probably because they had a rather major upheaval in the Greek Life office from what I understand; Claudia Shamp is back as the Director after having previously retired!

Can you imagine being ready to relax and then getting the call to come back????

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Originally Posted by UGAALUM

I have the list from my house, but if anyone finds the link of all the houses please post. I am sure I shouldn't post this, but I have a real problem with the UGA Panhel. I sent over 6 e-mails messages this summer asking why the scholarship report for Spring 2008 wasn't posted as the fraternity grades for Spring was posted. I had girls going through rush that wanted to see the grade point averages of the sororities. I NEVER RECEIVED ANY REPLIES BACK which I thought was very unprofessional.

Benzgirl · #**125** 08-18-2008, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by howdy

who are the top 3 sororities at uga

We don't discuss that on GC.

preciousjeni · #**126** 08-18-2008, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by GPhiBLtColonel

It was probably because they had a rather major upheaval in the Greek Life office from what I understand; Claudia Shamp is back as the Director after having previously retired!

Can you imagine being ready to relax and then getting the call to come back????

Wow! I didn't even realize that Claudia was out though.

GPhiBLtColonel · #**127** 08-18-2008, 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by preciousjeni

Wow! I didn't even realize that Claudia was out though.

She had retired last school year or the year before as I recall.....

GreekAlphaSoup · #**128** 08-18-2008, 08:25 PM

Besides, there is scholastic rank, rank in size, rank in dues, rank in number in the house, etc.

Here's a scholastic link.

http://www.uga.edu/panhellenic/forms/Rank.pdf

UGAALUM · #**129** 08-18-2008, 08:47 PM

GreekAlpha Soup I appreciate it , but this is the Fall 2007. The Spring 2008 was out 4 months ago , but Panhel won't publish it for some reason. The Frat boys had their Spring 2008 grades up 3 months ago. Last year they were posted by June. I didn't realize Claudia had retired which now explains the problem I have noted in the office in the past months.

UGAMOMof4 · #**130** 08-18-2008, 08:49 PM

Sorry to have been off so long, I know many of you have been looking for me. DD just texted to let me know that they are at the house and "already havin fun!" So glad to hear that! I'm not going to say where, but I think she's found a great spot!

I hope everyone's story is ending happily tonight!

Regarding some of the other earlier posts on recruitment, I think UGADad has a great point when he suggests that it occur later in the year. Many schools do this. Not only does it give the pnm's a better chance to get to know the sororities, but the sororities also get a chance to know more about the pnm's and see them in action...whether it be volunteering at a shelter or making the walk of shame from a fraternity house at 6:00am!

MerryGPhiB · #**131** 08-18-2008, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by UGAMOMof4

Sorry to have been off so long, I know many of you have been looking for me. DD just texted to let me know that they are at the house and "already havin fun!" So glad to hear that! I'm not going to say where, but I think she's found a great spot!

I hope everyone's story is ending happily tonight!

Regarding some of the other earlier posts on recruitment, I think UGADad has a great point when he suggests that it occur later in the year. Many schools do this. Not only does it give the pnm's a better chance to get to know the sororities, but the sororities also get a chance to know more about the pnm's and see them in action...whether it be volunteering at a shelter or making the walk of shame from a fraternity house at 6:00am!

Where did she pledge????? You're killng me ( Please note: patience is not my strong suit!)

UGAalum94 · #**132** 08-18-2008, 09:01 PM

I was looking for the grade report a few weeks ago and was surprised it wasn't up. While it has information that is good to know, I don't there was anything on there that was radically different from the last couple of semesters. I also can't imagine someone making a decision about which group to list on a bid card based on one semester's grade report. (which isn't to say that I wasn't looking for it).

Some campuses don't even post them at all, so I'm sure sure that UGA's greek life office was especially remiss. You might want to dial back your expectations for responsiveness or you are likely to be very unhappy dealing with UGA while you or your child are enrolled there. I love that school, but you have absolutely no hope of prevailing on staff to change the way they run it through multiple demanding emails. If you do hope to effect a change, you'll have a much better shot working from the inside serving on panhellenic than demanding from the outside.

I.C. a Pi Phi · #**133** 08-18-2008, 09:05 PM

Claudia's back... but they also have a new Panhellenic advisor they hired in Dec... Kat Gillen (?) I think she's a tri-sig which is one of the few sororities not at UGA.

GreekAlphaSoup · #**134** 08-18-2008, 09:08 PM

I agree with UGAMomof4....I, too, think recruitment should be later (and anything, really, could be better than ending with bids issued on the first day of class....duh....freshmen....huge campus....we started right off sending a message that greek was as (if not more) valuable than class what with all of the focus on the bid coming. Of course, I went right along with it all and didn't override that impression with my DD since I was just as wrapped up in waiting for the bid to come out, and how the first night at the house went for her. Classes? Who noticed classes?

UGAalum94 · #**135** 08-18-2008, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by UGAMOMof4

Regarding some of the other earlier posts on recruitment, I think UGADad has a great point when he suggests that it occur later in the year. Many schools do this. Not only does it give the pnm's a better chance to get to know the sororities, but the sororities also get a chance to know more about the pnm's and see them in action...whether it be volunteering at a shelter or making the walk of shame from a fraternity house at 6:00am!

But this change wouldn't come without costs. While the present system is imperfect, the number of girls participating would make running the process while classes were in session pretty challenging. The number of groups and parties mean the process would last a pretty long time because you could have fewer parties a day. While SEC recruitment is less frilly than it used to be, it's still expensive and very time consuming for the girls in the groups. I'm not sure that it would be less stressful for anyone to stretch it out.

Some campuses manage to do it, but if you talk to girls at Ole Miss, I'm not sure recruitment there is a bed of roses.

It's not that I'm particularly opposed to deferred recruitment, but UGA actually did a study and decided against it. Armchair quarterbacking recruitment is fun, but it's a little disrespectful to the people in the trenches to assume that you could do it better when most of us don't even know what goes into to doing it at all. (For the record, I have absolutely no official connection to recruitment at UGA other than writing a few recs.)