What type of recruitment would you have preferred?

[FSUZeta]

i guess enough girls knew about sororities and wanted to join one from their own knowledge, coupled with the rush info. booklet and the information at the orientations. fsu has held rush prior to the commencement of classes for decades and hasn't had to cancel yet.

[DGTess]

Originally Posted by FSUZeta

i guess enough girls knew about sororities and wanted to join one from their own knowledge, coupled with the rush info. booklet and the information at the orientations. fsu has held rush prior to the commencement of classes for decades and hasn't had to cancel yet.

Cute.

So the girls who don'[t know about Greek Life and aren't swayed by the brochures are just riff-raff? Not in a derogative sense, but simply left out, because no one makes an effort to get them? I feel for them.

But I guess the other side of that argument is if they chose a school with intense Greek life and didn't investigate, that's their issue.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by DGTess

Cute.

So the girls who don't know about Greek Life and aren't swayed by the brochures are just riff-raff? Not in a derogative sense, but simply left out, because no one makes an effort to get them? I feel for them.

But I guess the other side of that argument is if they chose a school with intense Greek life and didn't investigate, that's their issue.

Wow. No, she never said that. She said that in spite of girls who are clueless about rush except for the info they get from the school, they do manage to get enough participants to carry it off.

And what do you mean - "get them"? Just because they changed the name to recruitment, doesn't mean it really is and sorority women are going to their houses knocking on their doors like the Army or Hare Krishnas. They get the information on Greek life - just like they get information on housing, athletics, and other facets of college - before they begin classes. If they get there and don't know how to drop/add classes, where the office is to buy tickets for football games, or how to participate in rush, and don't bother to investigate it or ask questions if this is something they have an interest in, that's really their own damn fault.

I find it amusing that someone who is such a proponent of personal responsibility thinks that young adult women need their hands held every step of the way as far as joining a sorority is concerned.

[FSUZeta]

Originally Posted by DGTess

Cute.

So the girls who don'[t know about Greek Life and aren't swayed by the brochures are just riff-raff? Not in a derogative sense, but simply left out, because no one makes an effort to get them? I feel for them.

But I guess the other side of that argument is if they chose a school with intense Greek life and didn't investigate, that's their issue.

i never called anyone riff-raff. true, some girls may have had an edge because of familial ties to greek life, or neighbors or friends who had talked to them about greek life, but every girl who enrolled at fsu got the same information from greek life mailed to her home at the beginning of the summer and had the ability to educate herself on FSU greek life.

if i remember correctly, the booklet had greetings from the greek life coordinator, as well as the panhellenic president. there was the requisite information explaining what a sorority is, the advantages to joining a sorority, the process of formal recruitment, cob opportunities, an enrollment form and each sorority had a page that had a photo of their house, their standard information and i believe, their dues and other financial information.

so i feel, in essence, the greek life office at fsu made an effort to get every new girl at fsu to go thru recruitment, by mailing out a booklet to her.

[DGTess]

Originally Posted by FSUZeta

i never called anyone riff-raff.

Ah. So you just didn't read "not in a derogatory sense" and instead read the term "riff-raff" as derogatory instead of as "all others".

Guess I should have selected a more neutral term. In looking it up, I find it has a negative connotation; in my experience, the term had always simply meant "everything else". I did acknowledge there is a derogatory meaning, but stated I didn't mean it that way.

So phrased differently, as long as there are enough "girls" to fill recruitment schedules, we're okay?