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Originally Posted by zetamae
I feel like this is a little dig at the SEC. Many SEC schools mange to put on and successfully execute some of the biggest recruitments in the country with a very high bid day rate so maybe they should be seen as the gold standard in terms of recruitment and football LOL . The "frills" for work week are fun and as an SEC mom I can tell you the actives look forward to it and the added expense isn't that much. Much less than my weekly Starbucks addiction.  |
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Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna
Talk about full frill recruitment...
I went through recruitment in 1970 but heard about 1960s-style full-frill recruitment. NOTHING has topped 1960s style. We're talking skits with elaborate costumes and sets, professionally-written script and songs. Food and drink for rushees (some campuses did full meals for pref), favors that the rushees took home, matching everything for actives for each round. Living rooms made into gardens with fountains and bowers of flowers. Budgets of tens of thousands of $$$. 
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Not a dig on the SEC at all. Just an observation of how completely different it is in other places. When NPC said "no frills", our campus panhellenics up north banned everything- decorations, door songs, matching outfits, food, gifts, etc. Videos are banned, any song that says "go XYZ" is banned. Our "work week" is now a single day to practice bumping and conversation. They are allowed one ceremony at Pref and can decorate with flowers. Recruitment Counselors sit in each party and will write up anything as a recruitment violation and they have big fines for violations. The recruitment budget is tiny and consists mostly of expected fines to pay.
When I went through rush in 1984, we had decorations and matching outfits and refreshments at every party. Everything from invitations to nametags, skits and songs fit the theme for the party. Grease was our skit and I still hear the Alpha Gam words to those songs in my head when I hear them! Pref wasn't a full meal but it was a fancy dessert usually. Rushees got favors at each party too. I will say it was a very expensive endeavor and it was exhausting. I hated being on the floor so I tried to take offices that would keep me off the floor - I was recruitment chair my first year, membership chair the second, because I really hated the banter necessary on the floor. Not where this introvert shines! LOL
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Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna
I don't think anybody has 3 prefs now. Per NPC.
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So they only put two choices on the MRABA now? It's been about 5 years since I've been involved with collegiate chapters.
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