Prohibiting 1st Semester Freshmen From Pledging

[AOII Angel]

So...what evidence do you have that waiting a semester makes women more likely to stay active throughout their college years and become more active than women who pledged at the beginning of their college experience? I think a lot of this is your biased opinions. Recruitment that works on one campus may not work on another, but formal recruitment is the BEST way to juggle a large PNM pool to assure that each woman has a chance to experience what each group has to offer. I pledged AOII before starting my first class in college. My pledge class lost a few members along the way (a couple transferred after the first semester, but they have just as much right to their AOII membership as I do!) and the remainder stayed active throughout our time as AOIIs. No chapter on my campus had a problem with keeping seniors active. I'm glad I got to pledge when I did, otherwise I would have felt cheated out of a semester of membership during those fun college days! If a campus does, that's more of a campus culture problem and less of a "non-deferred" recruitment problem. Correlation is NOT causation. Remember that when you try to demand widespread change to a system that may not be broken.