Advice to rushers: re: legacies

[Ndigayenza]

Originally posted by WVU alpha phi
My campus has the policy that sisters aren't allowed to talk to PNMs at all during recruitment, whether it's about rush or not (unless there's a rare case where you're in a study group with a sister and you must talk to her for school).

Hi, I'm from a non NPC organization. Actually, we are under NALFO (National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations). And a lot of orgs under NALFO (including mine) don't rush. We have events, we talk to PNMs, we act like regular people around them. We don't do pref parties. It's a whole different world when it comes to recruitment...actually, my org doesn't "recruit". We don't do these things because then it makes it seem like WE are choosing ABC girl and not MNO girl. Instead we prefer for PNMs to come to us. Approach us and then we and the PNM take it from there. Wow, how do you get to know the PNM if you can't interact with them? i feel it's better to interact because atleast when it comes time to say, "I want this org" or "we want you" or not, it's not soooo devastating because somewhere throughout your interactions, you realized which way you wanted to go...and not through pref parties, not through invite-only events...that's only my opinion, not my org's, and just in case, i am not trying to play anyone or their respective org.

Okay, about legacies. I'm going to try not to be redundant, restating what others have said. My org, Hermandad de Sigma Iota Alpha, Inc. is so new that we don't have any daughter legacies. We are only 15 years old with our oldest member...a founder of course, being around 35-37. We do have a lot of sister/cousin legacies. In fact, in my chapter Alpha Alpha, we have two bio sisters. We acknowledge the fact that the PNM is a legacy but in all, that doesn't affect our judgement. Honestly, if my little sister went to a school that had SIAs and wanted to join or she wanted to bring SIA on campus, I would raise my brows. Great girl, not SIA material. It's really a matter of both the org and the potential asking "What can you do for me" and "What can I do for you"?

We've had cases where sister legacies and cousin legs went to other orgs...hey, no big deal.