If No Deferred Recruitment, What's A Good Alternative?

[ASTalumna06]

I'm looking for opinions here.

Through the fraternities (mainly) on campus, Penn State Behrend is looking to do away with deferred recruitment. While I'm back and forth about where I stand on this issue right now, if this does pass, the administration is looking for a kind of "deal", where the Greek organizations work to improve themselves and/or the new member process in exchange for allowing first semester freshmen to receive bids.

One of the options is a kind of "tier" system, where chapters are evaluated and then placed within 3 different tiers which would determine how many first semester freshmen they could bid. For example, the first tier would be your basics (have at least a 2.5 chapter GPA, have a minimum number of philanthropy hours and educational programs), which would be set at marks that basically all chapters should be at right now. Tier 2 and 3 would be more difficult to reach (like having a 3.5 cumulative GPA for tier 3, for example). These higher levels would allow a chapter to bid more first semester freshmen.

Another option that was brought up is to have a supplemental new member program. From what I've heard, it would consist of one meeting a week, for 6-8 weeks, and all of the new members from all the Greek organizations would be required to attend. There would be fun activities and icebreakers, but for the most part, these meetings would cover things like time management, study skills, budgeting your money, risk management issues, etc., in order to prepare new members for being a part of Greek life, as well as to give them information regarding living and working in college, and beyond. And again, this would be a supplemental "new member program" that wouldn't conflict with or hinder our individual chapters' programs.

What are your opinions about these proposed systems?