Indiana University 2014 Recruitment

[AZTheta]

Sigmapisimom, we do "get IU". We do. Believe us, we do. You don't have to have your leg amputated to know that it is painful. The argument of "you have to experience it to understand it" doesn't apply.

And things do change. This past fall's recruitment (elsewhere) brought some changes that have been decades in the making.

Personally, I am heartsick at the outcome of Indiana recruitment every January. Their Panhellenic system is perpetuating an archaic method of selecting members based on what, to me, are invalid reasons. Yet there is some powerful motivation and support to continue it. As a Panhellenic-minded GC member (search my posts, I truly have friends in every chapter), I say "shame" on my sisters.

Answer this, IU Panhellenic: why NOT change? What valid, supportable, evidence-based reasons can you provide for NOT changing?

Bring it. I'm ready.

[pinkmama]

I went to IU and graduated in 1997. I remember standing on a chair and "fighting" for a girl that my bump group loved! But unfortunately she was on bottom of our list because at the first rounds she wasn't loved with the first bump group that rushed her. She ultimately was cut and she found herself in another house and was happy. Things happen on both sides

Unfortunately yesterday there were hundreds and hundreds of girls happy to attend pref night and those girls who accept bids and be happy on bid day. If you look at Instagram and Facebook of the unhoused chapters they look like they are having a great time!

To be honest I loved living in the house but I had two sisters who were 5th year seniors so they lived out when I was a senior. I spent alot of time
At their apartment making food that I wanted to eat and just only being around three other people instead of 100.

I know there will be women who dropped Bc they only got the two unhoused chapters for pref and they will regret it when they see girls walking around in those letters on bid day. I think they will get two great pledge classes because of the drastic cuts this year due to the lack of one round. I had two girls on my floor who suicided a certain house rather than ranking all three and they regretted it all semester once they saw other girls on the floors with those letters on of those houses they chose not to even put down. Then the following year one of those girls accepted a bid to the house she didn't put down the first year and she loved it.

[cinder1965]

Originally Posted by AZTheta

Sigmapisimom, we do "get IU". We do. Believe us, we do. You don't have to have your leg amputated to know that it is painful. The argument of "you have to experience it to understand it" doesn't apply.

And things do change. This past fall's recruitment (elsewhere) brought some changes that have been decades in the making.

Personally, I am heartsick at the outcome of Indiana recruitment every January. Their Panhellenic system is perpetuating an archaic method of selecting members based on what, to me, are invalid reasons. Yet there is some powerful motivation and support to continue it. As a Panhellenic-minded GC member (search my posts, I truly have friends in every chapter), I say "shame" on my sisters.

Answer this, IU Panhellenic: why NOT change? What valid, supportable, evidence-based reasons can you provide for NOT changing?

Bring it. I'm ready.

Completely agree. I am with you, bring it, IU Panhel. I want to see the evidence too. It's long overdue.