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Originally Posted by 33girl
It would have helped a lot if you would have said all of this in your first post, rather than "I couldn't believe it" and "this system is wasting a lot of time." It made you come off in much the same way as a certain oft-banned poster on here who thought it was just ridiculous that people actually wore jeans at rush and basically completely dissed the women she was supposed to be "advising."
If you and the other advisors want to get together and try to institute this, rock out with your sock out, but don't be surprised if you get asked why and expected to prove that it will help recruitment - by the administration, by the rushees and by the chapter members.
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I apologize...I had tried to get as much detail without being long-winded. Hopefully things are all clear now, and we can get some good ideas. The advisors from all chapters get together periodically to discuss, and they want to have each sorority contribute $20 to buy a digital cam for panhel, that way a picture is taken of each girl and emailed to the chapter.
This chapter just had a National representative visit and make a bunch of suggestions to the chapter. Now, the officers are bringing it to the advisors as something they want to do. I am certainly not being one of those,'Well this is how MY chapter did it..." kind of people. The system seems to be really open to making things change and make it easier for EVERYONE...PNM's and the chapters.
Some people have mentioned that it's unfair/unnecessary for the GLOs to have prior knowledge of the PNM's, but aren't PNM's able to get plenty of information about the groups before recruitment? We have national websites as well as chapter specific ones where these women can find out all kinds of things before recruitment starts. Many have said that they use it as a talking point...in fact many alumnae here have RECOMMENDED it to PNM's to help show interest. Why is it different for the GLO's to know a little about the girls coming in prior to parties? In fact, it might actually help some of the women that we've heard about who get so shy. If they are not able to initiate a conversation, and immediately get written off as 'uninterested'...would they have not been better served knowing a little bit about them? Why do we encourage Recs be written? Because it's MORE information.
Thank you FSUZeta, your last sentence is exactly what I've been getting at!
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