A Different Kind of Live Recruitment Story

[BetteDavisEyes]

Originally Posted by Kansas City

Never mind ... I was just trying to be helpful but don't care anymore. See you all in another thread.

Originally Posted by Kansas City

Grow up.

First, I thought you were leaving this thread?

Hahahaha!

You're telling me to grow up? You? Who did the classic internet flounce b/c you couldn't take it when other posters told you to basically stop asking what are PRIVATE MS questions for AST's only? HAHAHAHA!

/end hijack


ASTalumna06, it's great that the 4 girls are being well received and it should be really exciting to have a large new member class in the spring when they are eligible to receive bids. Keep up updated! This is a great story.

[ASTalumna06]

Long story short, the information given to the chapter came at the last minute and the situation called for a special meeting, because the chapter didn't want to wait until their regularly scheduled business meeting on Sunday for a decision to be made. This is only because they were hoping to start induction procedures on Monday, and while they also have another date for the same ceremony planned for the following Monday, they didn't want to separate the new member class for these first ceremonies if they didn't have to (as they pretty much know that there are no other PNMs they are questioning or need to get to know further this semester). So.. that meeting will take place tonight so that if there are more bids to distribute, they can be extended tomorrow, giving these last potential new members at least a few days to prepare for their first ritual ceremony.

But I will tell you that for an additional meeting to be called (whether it is for membership selection for for any other reason) it has to be called by either the President or five members of the chapter. The Advisor has to be given ample notice, and it is basically required that they be able to attend. Also, notice has to be given to all of the sisters, whether they are required to be there or not, at least 24 hours in advance. So technically, there was no way that the chapter could make any kind of a decision on bid day anyway, as they just heard the news that afternoon.

In addition, membership selection has to be officially documented so that there is a written account to back up the decision. If important decisions are ever to be decided or voted on, by members of the chapter or the advisory team, they have to be made in a meeting-type setting with minutes to be recorded. Thus, this special meeting is being called tonight.

[agzg]

ASTAlumna06-

Did you guys get your bid situation figured out? How many did you take?

[Benzgirl]

Yea for AST and her team! Let us know the number in the pledge class and best of luck to the chapter this year.

[fantASTic]

Yay! Great luck to the four new girls! Keep up the events for freshmen so that they stay interested!

[LegallyBrunette]

ASTAlumna, I found it really interesting to hear recruitment from your perspective. Good luck with everything; the four new members, a big spring class, etc!

ps, do you happen to know how the other groups did, I'm curious!

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by LegallyBrunette

ASTAlumna, I found it really interesting to hear recruitment from your perspective. Good luck with everything; the four new members, a big spring class, etc!

ps, do you happen to know how the other groups did, I'm curious!

I'm not sure yet. Since there is COB, the other chapters might still be bidding girls. I know nothing about the ASAs, but your Theta Phis had/have at least one more recruitment party scheduled after bid day.

But I'll let you know as soon as I find out!

And thanks to everyone for your wonderful comments!

[ASTalumna06]

Our new members with their New Member Directors sitting behind them:



After pinning, with their first lettered shirts:



The four new girls with one of the sisters, Olivia, in the middle. From left to right: Molly, Julie, Jennifer and Jackie :-)




Yay for Alpha Mu, Fall 08!!!

[AOEforme]

Congrats, ASTalumna06! They're goregous girls!

[srmom]

Good luck and let us know!

[agzg]

Wow 25 is great! The bio packets are a great idea - that way the PNMs can skip the "what's your major" and "where are you from" conversations and go straight to actual conversations. If only you guys had similar packets on all the PNMs!

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by alphagamzetagam

Wow 25 is great! The bio packets are a great idea - that way the PNMs can skip the "what's your major" and "where are you from" conversations and go straight to actual conversations. If only you guys had similar packets on all the PNMs!

Yea, wouldn't THAT be helpful! haha

[fantASTic]

Good luck! You know I'm rooting for you

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by fantASTic

Good luck! You know I'm rooting for you

Thanks sis

Since my bf is so much younger than I am, he is still in school. I go to his fraternity house to hang out every so often, and on Friday, I met some pretty interesting people.. who might be interested in joining a sorority.

To start, I had one girl express some interest to me online a few days earlier. This is always exciting. I asked my bf if he knew her, and it turns out she's friends with him and a lot of his brothers. On Friday, we met, and we talked for a little while, just in general, and then about the sorority. I think she's somewhat interested, and I'm hoping I can get her to come to a recruitment event.

Meanwhile, staring at us while we talked was "Crazy Girl". I won't go into too many details about her now, but she has said that she's interested in joining a sorority. She recently started to become friends with all of my sisters on Facebook, all of them were confused by the friend requests, and none of them know who she is.

Then there's "I Need Attention" girl. The way she presents herself when she's sober: fine. When drinking: not so fine. I have heard from the brothers that she is constantly asking annoying questions during parties, and bothering everyone with her petty problems. From what I've heard, she'll only consider joining a sorority if her one friend tries to join.

It's always great to have a large number of girls interested in joining... and this being new for me, I find it entertaining that there is such a wide spectrum of personalities that show through during this time of year. I know that it happens at other schools, but it's never really happened to me here.

We'll just have to see who shows up tomorrow night.

[ASTalumna06]

On Tuesday, the sisters had game night. I arrived at 7:30 and a lot of the sisters were there setting up. There were decorations and displays of sorority items on a table, along with some candy and amazing taco dip to eat... yum!

Two sisters were sent to a central location to wait for the PNMs. The girls were hoping for a large number of them to come. They were definitely ready after the large turnout on Thursday.

The sisters walked in, and behind them were PNMs. There were.......... 3 of them. I think everyone’s heart sank a little when they realized that the 25 girls from the other night had turned into 3 just a few days later. But... one of the girls who came was the nice girl that I met on Friday. I thought she might not show up (she seemed really nervous about it on Friday) so when I saw her, it felt good to know that I had made a good impression.

I knew one of the other PNMs, also. She had stuck pretty close to me at the kick-off event, but I was glad to see her branching off and talking to the other sisters while playing games.

The girls immediately started playing Cranium, Taboo, cards... everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves, and the sisters did everything they could to make the few PNMs feel welcome.

When the party ended, nice girl from Friday asked me if she could do anything to help clean up. I said not to worry about it, and I invited her to the next event. She said she'd definitely be there.

......

For tonight, there was confusion concerning the booking of a room for the recruitment event, so a few days ago, the sisters decided to change it. Instead of having a typical recruitment event, they decided they would go to a date auction put on by one of the other sororities, and they invited PNMs to go with them. I wasn’t able to attend the event tonight, but from what I hear, there were about 7 PNMs that showed up, a few of which none of the sisters had met before. The sisters I’ve talked to sounded really excited about it.

The next event is on Monday