What Would You Change About Recruitment?

[PinkRose1098]

Some of the things that I would love to be able to change about Recrutiment would be:

1) Can we please call it what it feels like - RUSH?! I swear for those two weeks everyday was one hurdle after another. We had a WEEK of planning and practice and then the actual week of rush. Plus the "old" terminology makes more sense to me but this is because it's what I'm used to hearing and traing my tounge to be PC is nearly impossible.
2) This request is totally geared toward my school - I'd love to be able to move rush to later in the fall. I love the fact that rush is one of the first things that incoming freshman girls experience. Hopefully they are able to get to know the chapters they are meeting for themselves without too much gossips from their momma, older friends, etc. But really! August in Alabama is not very fun for a girl in heels and a dress. I hated the fact that no matter how smart you tried to be as a PNM, something went wrong involving the weather. You sweat, your make-up doesn't look as good, and then you get those wonderful afternoon showers; you name it - it happens.
3) Ice Water Teas - this is my least favorite round of rush. It's easy to decorate the room for IWTs. I don't like the fact that no matter how hard you work people still get nervious and fall back on what they know - not using their brain. We ideally try to match sisters up with girls who have a common interest so there is something to talk about and they can skip the really tired into question - Why did you choose this school? What's your major? What did you do this summer? Do you like football? I'd rather see round that has a theme like a Sisterhood Day. We already have Philanthropy Day, Skit Day and Pref. Let me openly talk about the reason we're hear - not fluffy bs.

On another note I wish that guys rush was structured a little more like ours. It would be great to see the rushees visit every chapter/ house at least once during that week of rush. Shoot, it'd be great to see them have rounds where the choice is more of an open process than a covert mission. Being the organizational person I am, I hate preparing a bunch of food for rush only to have very few rushee come by and then having the brothers scarf it down during their meeting. Plus, I hated seeing the disapointment in my boys eyes when so very few people came to the house.