Dynamic Recruitment

[33girl]

I know a lot of groups are pushing for chapters to do "recruitment" rather than "rush" - that is, offer bids at any time during the school year rather than just one or two certain times a year. It's a good idea in theory, but in practice it can be a little difficult because some schools demand that pledging begin within a few days of a bid being signed. You may end up in a situation where you have pledging going on ALL the time, which is difficult. This is especially true for small chapters, who are the ones most frequently told to do this, but unless you have a very flexible or very short pledge program the manpower it takes up is too much.

Recruiting all the time does not have to equal giving bids all the time.

As far as taking people in the summer, how on earth could you vote on them if you didn't have enough members there taking classes? I would assume most groups need a certain number (3/5 or something like that) to vote on a member before offering them a bid. Unless you overrode that, and then I could see a LOT of issues when people come back in the fall to pledges/members they've never met or voted on...

[SmartBlondeGPhB]

Originally Posted by 33girl

I know a lot of groups are pushing for chapters to do "recruitment" rather than "rush" - that is, offer bids at any time during the school year rather than just one or two certain times a year. It's a good idea in theory, but in practice it can be a little difficult because some schools demand that pledging begin within a few days of a bid being signed. You may end up in a situation where you have pledging going on ALL the time, which is difficult. This is especially true for small chapters, who are the ones most frequently told to do this, but unless you have a very flexible or very short pledge program the manpower it takes up is too much.

Recruiting all the time does not have to equal giving bids all the time.

As far as taking people in the summer, how on earth could you vote on them if you didn't have enough members there taking classes? I would assume most groups need a certain number (3/5 or something like that) to vote on a member before offering them a bid. Unless you overrode that, and then I could see a LOT of issues when people come back in the fall to pledges/members they've never met or voted on...

Especially if the campus is such that attracts a lot of out of state people (my alma mater).