When to do rush

[kddani]

Originally Posted by OmegaPDPrez

i actually dont do any type of formal or informal recruitment. right now two of my friends are 'pledging, rather learning, about my sorority and next fall i think i will do something close to a formal? recruitment ( not sure the difference between formal and informal; like i know what makes them different but i dont think the names fit them well but, thats a whole nother topic) anyway.
next semester i will have a rush period, and then i will introduce new members to the organization through our education period which will produce, hopefully, new sisters into the group. but the difference is i will not advertise as panhell does- which is really creative this year was really cute- simply because 1. my school probably wouldnt like for me too ( thats all in another thread) and 2. because i dont want it to become that group where people 'sludge' to just to 'get letters' cause i do believe that sometimes that could be the case ( see alpha, i totally get your point!) 3. i cant advertise to 2000 women and not expect to get alot of attention as anew group
i think what im trying to say is my recruitment will sortof be underground. My goal isnt to recruit alot of women since we're small and the idea is to keep it not in the spolight so to speak ( i think im making this complicated, which im talented at doing) but anyway, i like the idea of just going to a few interested women on campus and asking them to join us for an interest meeting and then pretty much going from there. which is also one of the reasons why i rather recruit after NPC so then who ever wants to really get to know NPC groups has that chance and if they dont find what they like they can conctrate completely on my group.

Something like that! I hope i didnt confuse us all

I'm rather confused... are you part of a sorority, or is this your own personal fanclub or something? All of this "I" and "my". What happened to all of this based on "sisterhood" stuff you've been talking about? How is it a sisterhood to say all of this as your own personal decisions, and not that of a group?

[mystikchick]

Originally Posted by kddani

I'm rather confused... are you part of a sorority, or is this your own personal fanclub or something? All of this "I" and "my". What happened to all of this based on "sisterhood" stuff you've been talking about? How is it a sisterhood to say all of this as your own personal decisions, and not that of a group?

i'm not sure about this, and OmegaPDPrez, please feel free to correct me, but it appears there are only two members based on the website for this sorority - the poster and her sister, presumably the vice-president.

Also OmegaPDPrez, I'm curious - I checked out your myspace profile, and it lists you as having started seven years ago in Canada and then suddenly again in PA? What does that mean/could you explain?

[OmegaPDPrez]

should i make a thread?
First,
There are four members,
two of which founded the organization
and we are preparing to do a bigger recruitment in the fall with six members (counting my two friends that are in the education process right now)
Second,
The i thing is kind of selfish, i get what your saying, its not my personal fan club, but thats how i typed it...sorry
Third,
The canadain school is a very long story... but the letters were thought to have belonged to another group... and they released them ( really long story) which made it possible for us to use them but since they were a group we thought it would be nice to recognize that they once existed.

and yes, we were allowed to do that.

[kddani]

Thanks for taking the time to explain, Omega.

I'm curious- what kind of educational process do you have? The group just started, there's only 2 members and now 2 people going through the "educational process". How much education can there possibly be, considering that you and the other member are founders and you have only been around for a very short period of time? Why are you spending the time doing that, instead of getting them involved in actually doing things and getting the group going? Rome wasn't built in a day, and no sorority was either. Having more man power, more leadership, more people to divy up the work with makes it more effective.

[OmegaPDPrez]

Originally Posted by kddani

Thanks for taking the time to explain, Omega.

I'm curious- what kind of educational process do you have? The group just started, there's only 2 members and now 2 people going through the "educational process". How much education can there possibly be, considering that you and the other member are founders and you have only been around for a very short period of time? Why are you spending the time doing that, instead of getting them involved in actually doing things and getting the group going? Rome wasn't built in a day, and no sorority was either. Having more man power, more leadership, more people to divy up the work with makes it more effective.

theres four initiated members that already do small service work as a group. theres two other women who are in the process of becoming members... this isnt official recruitment b/c, as youve said, we are new. we wanted to wait an entire year at least, before we recruited other people. (or went campus wide with an interest group) I'll give you an example of our NME as the two women are doing now
As with any group, they learn why we were founded, and general things that are actually made public on our website (our open motto, purpose, founding date) and then we ask that each member learn specific things that are significant to the success of this organization ( something that we'd like to keep within our group). And of course during the time they learn about OPD, they must learn about current members and each other.
the process is extremely detailed in that all four current members worked together to develop the process as we participated in it ourselves. and for right now it seems that the new members are really enjoying the process, so we all have high hopes for the fall.
And you are right, having more people is better, that is why we are trying to 'educate' these two women right now. All of us are close friends, but we didnt all create the basis of this group- two of us did. and then two more joined, and now two more are joining-- this was a choice made, to hopefully provide more access to future members of next semester, and like i stated before- while these two members are in there process, we have current members, getting the group some much needed publicity in the manner of being more active among campus... and even tho there are only four of us i believe we are making great process as a group.

[mystikchick]

Originally Posted by OmegaPDPrez

should i make a thread?
First,
There are four members,
two of which founded the organization
and we are preparing to do a bigger recruitment in the fall with six members (counting my two friends that are in the education process right now)
Second,
The i thing is kind of selfish, i get what your saying, its not my personal fan club, but thats how i typed it...sorry
Third,
The canadain school is a very long story... but the letters were thought to have belonged to another group... and they released them ( really long story) which made it possible for us to use them but since they were a group we thought it would be nice to recognize that they once existed.

and yes, we were allowed to do that.

that makes sense, i think recognizing the older organization who made yours possible is a nice gesture
thanks for taking the time to explain.

[OmegaPDPrez]

no problem