After Several Years: What Do You Think of the New Release Figures?

[fantASTic]

To be honest...I hate it. I think it puts significant pressure on smaller groups to invite back undesirable potentials. As a member of a chapter which is smaller (but only by five or fewer members) than the larger chapters, we get calls every round saying, "We know everyone cut this person including you, but you NEED to invite her back due to your release figures. If you don't, you will fail as a person and chapter." It's retarded and I think if people would realize that we are not obligated to accept undesirable girls, we will not. Yet, we still get several calls every year, even though we ALWAYS refuse to take them. No other sorority gets these calls.

[carnation]

FantASTic: WHAT??!!! You're kidding! Is PH making these calls? What would they do if you ignored them? You should, you know.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by carnation

FantASTic: WHAT??!!! You're kidding! Is PH making these calls? What would they do if you ignored them? You should, you know.

Exactly. Panhel cannot force you as a chapter to invite a woman back if you have voted and decided that she doesn't meet your standards for membership. It would be like national Panhel telling national HQs that they have to colonize at this school or that, even if the group had no interest.

I completely agree w/ HC that release figures should be explained more to alums - an article in the national magazine would be good, especially for those groups who have many chapters where this is likely to occur. I remember right after I pledged reading an article in the Phoenix about legacies not being guaranteed bids - it encouraged the moms to look at things from their collegian point of view (i.e. the girl who is a legacy but doesn't fit in w/ the chapter).

[fantASTic]

Originally Posted by carnation

FantASTic: WHAT??!!! You're kidding! Is PH making these calls? What would they do if you ignored them? You should, you know.

Yes, it is PH and also the Greek Life Staff.

For a few years, we actually did it...then my big became Recruitment Chair and, after consecutive phone calls saying that if we didn't take a particular girl [who was cut by ALL houses on Day 1, which should say enough considering we are very noncompetitive] we would "never make total or quota, ever again" [wrong - we did both that year, by the way] she told her to stop calling and threw her phone across the room.

That stopped it for THAT year...but we've gotten the calls for the past two years straight still. We have refused to take any girl we have cut - we do not want her if we have cut her. It's highly offensive, considering we are NOT a struggling chapter.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by fantASTic

That stopped it for THAT year...but we've gotten the calls for the past two years straight still. We have refused to take any girl we have cut - we do not want her if we have cut her. It's highly offensive, considering we are NOT a struggling chapter.

Since your not a struggling chapter, don't take offense. Maybe PH is just trying their best to work it out for one heart broken girl. You have the right to say no, and you did. I don't think PH calling a struggling chapter is any less offensive...you have the right, no matter how strong of a chapter you are, to choose your own members. Next time, inform them that you aren't interested and let it go. For all you know, they may have called the other chapters, too!