SPRING RECRUITMENT AT UGA

[33girl]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

But even with every member of the chapter participating, you have to rely on each other - you can't meet more than a few pnms per party. The reservations some of you have are in fact problems right now - especially at some of the larger recruitments, where, let's face it, the vast majority of chapter members are making their choices for membership selection based on what their sisters say, not on having personally met each pnm.

Yes, I'm aware of that at large chapters. The problem could come, as KC said, if the SAME 50 women (out of 200) are the only ones meeting ALL the PNMs. At a regular rush, you at least have all the chapter members' input as far as the women they did spend time with. I mean - what if those 50 sisters you pick to do the rushing don't want anyone who's (random example) on a sports team? They could come up with bogus reasons as to why they didn't like those PNMs and get people cut who the other 3/4 of the chapter would have really liked.

You would HOPE that wouldn't happen and that the chapter would have enough brains to pick a cross section of sisters who are different in all ways, but with chapter politics sometimes you never know.

Depending on the chapter's/GLO's voting policies, who knows, they might not be able to rotate sisters - maybe some of them say that you have to see a PNM twice to vote on them. I don't know, I'm just throwing that out there.

[shadden]

Many of the houses will use their most recent initiates - theoretically this should be a cross section of the house, and with Fall pledge classes at roughly 60 for most houses, the numbers are right. I think the idea of seeing roughly the same number of girls at each house is great - should benefit the smaller houses.

[carnation]

Can somebody who's on campus tell me if women who rushed in the fall need to get new recs for this recruitment?

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by shadden

Many of the houses will use their most recent initiates - theoretically this should be a cross section of the house, and with Fall pledge classes at roughly 60 for most houses, the numbers are right. I think the idea of seeing roughly the same number of girls at each house is great - should benefit the smaller houses.

For informal with a small quota, seeing this recruitment as sort of a prep for fall with the new girls makes sense.

On the other hand, if I were in charge of selecting for a chapter who would attract for my group this spring, I'd go with the folks who I thought had the strongest interpersonal skills and represented the chapter in a outstanding way. These folks might not be absolutely new to recruitment.

I think most chapters are going to do very well no matter how they decide to select participants and going with one fall pledge class avoids any hurt feelings.

There are pluses an minuses to any method of selecting them.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Yes, I'm aware of that at large chapters. The problem could come, as KC said, if the SAME 50 women (out of 200) are the only ones meeting ALL the PNMs. At a regular rush, you at least have all the chapter members' input as far as the women they did spend time with. I mean - what if those 50 sisters you pick to do the rushing don't want anyone who's (random example) on a sports team? They could come up with bogus reasons as to why they didn't like those PNMs and get people cut who the other 3/4 of the chapter would have really liked.

You would HOPE that wouldn't happen and that the chapter would have enough brains to pick a cross section of sisters who are different in all ways, but with chapter politics sometimes you never know.

Depending on the chapter's/GLO's voting policies, who knows, they might not be able to rotate sisters - maybe some of them say that you have to see a PNM twice to vote on them. I don't know, I'm just throwing that out there.

This may seem like a silly thing to point out, but I don't think most chapters who previously had spring recruitment were doing COB/COR events with the whole chapter rushing anyway. So, I'm guessing that with the relatively small size of anticipated quota (around 200/17?), it's just not a big risk. I suspect what we're talking about is letting slightly more than 25% of a chapter pick new members who will total less than 10% of the chapter, maybe much less than 10% at some chapters.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

This may seem like a silly thing to point out, but I don't think most chapters who previously had spring recruitment were doing COB/COR events with the whole chapter rushing anyway.

SRSLY??? That's weird. To me, anyway. If a chapter is struggling for numbers, I would think they need to put every girl they can get in a COB event - it ups the chance that one of them will connect with a rushee.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by 33girl

SRSLY??? That's weird. To me, anyway. If a chapter is struggling for numbers, I would think they need to put every girl they can get in a COB event - it ups the chance that one of them will connect with a rushee.

Well, it's the nature of informal recruitment events and the size of the chapters. Even the smallest chapter at UGA has more than 100 members, I think. If you only expected 20 or so PNMs, wouldn't 100 rushers be kind of awkward if you were doing pretty much anything other than hosting a party at your house? I think most of the spring classes last year for the groups who took them were in the 5 to 15 range, but I have really no idea how many girls participated at events. If they had parties at the houses for the first event, maybe they did have the whole chapter participate. You also have to remember that spring rush was sort of intentionally low key for a lot of groups and they were mainly rushing girls they already knew, I think.

Struggling for numbers here is just kind of relative, I guess.
Sure, if you had a chapter of 30, you'd need them all.