Indiana University 2014 Recruitment

[Hoosierxgirl]

Just wanted to throw my two cents in here...My heart goes out to all the PNMs, the families, the actives, and alums going through this process. It's hard to believe I wrote my own IU recruitment story over 5 years ago - I lived it and I totally get all of your frustrations. Recruitment for me was absolutely heart-breaking in the end, or so I thought at the time. I had a wonderful experience up until 3 Party when I was dropped by all of my favorite chapters. I still ended up with a bid but it took me a while to warm up to my house and to my sisters (which makes me sound like an entitled brat, I know).

Then I experienced recruitment as an active. Then as a Rho Gamma. Then as a recruitment party chair. I experienced IU recruitment in so many different roles that I could write a book about it. I watched girls that our whole house loved not return for the next round (they dropped out, didn't rank us, etc.). I watched women in my Rho Gamma group pref my own chapter and not receive a bid. From any angle, this process is painful. It's not fair and it needs to change. I don't have the answers but I do know it's going to take some adjustment. I think the senior live-out policy change is HUGE (granted, my chapter already allowed seniors to live out which I really enjoyed).

Obviously the women have already filled out their pref rankings at this point but I hope that the moms and daughters out there will take this advice. Even if Bid Day doesn't turn out the way you had hoped, make the best of it. If your daughter received a bid to a house they might not have connected with, tell her to go check it out. This year makes this true more than ever - these woman barely got a glimpse of the chapters. It took me weeks to feel comfortable in my chapter and now I could never imagine being anywhere else - they knew me better than I knew myself. If your daughter does not get a bid, there are options. IU is an amazing place that has so many opportunities beyond Greek Life! Some of the women in my Rho Gamma group didn't received bids (far too many) and they went on to have an amazing time in college - I can't believe they are seniors now! I wish everyone the best of luck and know that I'm thinking about you!

[FSUZeta]

"Invite everyone back"

Those Rho Gammas should be turned into the Panhellenic office, tout de suite! What they are doing is not in the panhellenic spirit and I have a hard time believing that any one of them consider this fair play. I feel this is serious, and IU Panhellenic should be made aware of it. So if your PNM mentioned her Rho Gamma saying this, or anything similar to this, tell her to turn them in.

[Maman]

Originally Posted by FSUZeta

"Invite everyone back"

Those Rho Gammas should be turned into the Panhellenic office, tout de suite! What they are doing is not in the panhellenic spirit and I have a hard time believing that any one of them consider this fair play. I feel this is serious, and IU Panhellenic should be made aware of it. So if your PNM mentioned her Rho Gamma saying this, or anything similar to this, tell her to turn them in.

From an older thread
Titchou
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From the NPC MOI section on Recruitment Counselors:

The goals of the recruitment counseling program are to:
• Provide support, friendship and personal guidance to women participating in the recruitment process by women’s
fraternity members who are educated to represent Panhellenic attitudes and ideals.
• Provide objective and impartial counselors.
• Promote an understanding and explanation of the mutual selection process.
• Promote an understanding of the benefits of fraternity affiliation and emphasize the similarities in ideals and goals
of all women’s fraternities.
• Provide encouragement to the potential new members to continue recruitment through the Preference round during
fully structured recruitment and to accept the maximum number of invitations possible during each round of
recruitment.
• Promote membership recruitment retention and pledging by lessening disappointments and disillusionments.

My bolds added.

IU Rho Gammas (barely older than the PNMs) are trying to help these young ladies through a very difficult process. While these hearsay statement may seem anti-PanHellenic to you. I feel they were probably an awkward way of conveying objective information to the PNMs.
My daughter was given similar advice from her Rho Gamma during recruitment at a different school. (Full disclosure: they were friends before recruitment.)

ATTA BOY! to all members who volunteer to be Rho Gammas at IU. Judging by the mother's comments on this forum, think how Rho Gammas must feel at the end of the day.