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As a Financial Advisor I'm all for moving to a no-frills Recruitment. Every year I look around at the parties and while everything is incredibly beautiful, all I can think of is how that money could have been spent on something more useful than flowers, equipment rental, etc. Or we might even be able to reduce dues. But I'm enough of a realist to know that we need to be competitive, so I keep signing those checks.
IMHO, Panhellenics and Admins have things backwards. If they truly want to go no frills, then cut the budgets. Then address the piddly stuff like wardrobe after you eliminate the out of control spending.
The first thing I'd like to see is Bama's Panhellenic and/or Admin do is crack down on alumnae donations for Recruitment. They're not supposed to, but it still happens. If you're fortunate to have an active and generous Alumnae Association you've got a real leg up on everyone else. Sadly, we don't so all expenses come out of the actives pocket.
Second, I'd like to see some sort of auditing of each sororities Recruitment budgets they turn in. Even though there's an official spending cap there are ways around it. Just because you turn something in doesn't mean it accurately reflects what was spent.
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