What Would You Change About Recruitment?

[Zillini]

Originally posted by doves95
1) I would eliminate frills recruitment or put a limit on all dec's or money spent and have house checks. Some rich chapters I know spend like 5K on rush!

Compared to some campuses, $5,000 is cheap. Panhellenic sets our budget at $6,000. I know for a fact that one house on campus spent upwards of $25,000 and it mostly came from alum donations. They only turned in receipts that totalled $6k. There's no auditing. I would love to do away with the ridiculous and frivallous spending on Recruitment. (At the same time I am envious of those houses that have alums who are willing and able to give that kind of money. Must be nice!)

Did anyone really chose a house because of the floral arrangements? Or professional lighting and sound system during the skit? How about the engraved napkins? Let's set budgets at $200 max to cover printer paper, toner, nametags and other office supplies. That's it, no more. No special outfits for actives or PNMs. Just come as you are and get to know each other. Drop the silly skits and limit the songs to Hello and Goodbye. The rest is just pointless. (But I'm enough of a realist to know that in order to be competitive, we'll keep doing things as we. At least until we are forced to change, either by the Administration or NPC. I sincerely doubt change will ever come from within.)

Let's drop the silly rules like for us accidently crossing the threshhold of a door to wave goodbye. Strict silence is silly because it is better to know the PNMs ahead of time and them to know your GLO in order to make good choices. But at the same time, we must enforce the rules on "real" dirty rushing (like promising a bid and then breaking the PNMs heart) and inappropriate/unsafe rushing (like taking PNMs out to parties and bars).

For our campus, I'd love to add more parties to each round so that there are less PNMs in each. As it stands it is way too crowded and the noise makes it almost impossible to hear yourself think, let alone hold a conversation. From the rumors I've heard, the number of PNMs going through will dramatically increase this year and there's no plans to increase the party numbers. Another thing, I'd bet the Fire Inspector would have a fit if he ever showed up during Recruitment.

As for Recs, most PNMs here know they need them. Not because they're required but rather because it's so competitive. They also know it's their responsibility. But I'd like them to know that 1 Rec is good, 2 better, but 5+ is excessive. We get so many in that we simply don't have the time to deal with all those extras and it doesn't improve anyone's chances to inundate a Chapter with Recs.