Indiana University 2014 Recruitment

[suzy88]

Some were wondering why they just didn't hold recruitment events on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. I think that some would perceive that as a bad day to hold recruitment events or a bid day. It is supposed to be a day of service and a day of reflection about the work he did.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by suzy88

Some were wondering why they just didn't hold recruitment events on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. I think that some would perceive that as a bad day to hold recruitment events or a bid day. It is supposed to be a day of service and a day of reflection about the work he did.

Yes, holding a recruitment event, given the history of most NPC orgs. on MLK day would be fairly ignorant and insulting.

A better question, as 33girl has asked up thread, is why they didn't move bid day back. But in any case, there would NOT have been more women with bids. Just, possibly, a different distribution. That said, I think that in a deferred recruitment, the parties themselves aren't quite as important. And hell, if you ended up bidless, wouldn't you rather think they didn't have time to get to know you then that they did have time, and didn't like you enough?

As for each group's right to select it's own members, nobody is asking them to take women they don't want. They are asking them to set a fair quota. Let's say quota was set at 75, and one of the SRCs* decided they only wanted to take 50. They could, if they wanted, only issue 50 pref invites (in fact, any chapter at any school could do this). Do you think they would do that? Probably not, because they risk not being listed as #1 by all 50 women and ending up with fewer than 50. If you want 50, even if you have a very high return rate, you ALWAYS put more than 50 on your list, which just underscores the fact that there are more than *quota* # of women who meet your membership standards.

Besides, it's not like we let chapters go the other way. At other schools, one chapter can't just decide that they want to take more than quota. We regulate the system plenty at all those other schools, why not at IU? The idea that IU sororities should have the right to choose their members however they want just doesn't hold water with me. If that's the case, why have a formal recruitment at all?


*Strong Recruiting Chapter, i.e. a chapter that typically has high return rates, lots of PNM's listing them first after pref, etc.