Southeastern Conference 2007 & 2008 Recruitment

[ztafromuk]

I was driving down Milledge this morning and had to brake for sorority members. Evidently the Delta Zetas ran across the street to Phi Mu and did a cheer? dropped off cookies? something? and I drove by just as the DZs were running back. I got so nostalgic for the days of choreographed welcome songs.

My son (almost 7) was in the car with me, and told me that all those big houses were were party houses. I thought that was cute.

In other news, the Athens paper reported today that Delta Phi Epsilon is planning to temporarily disband, and sell their house back to the university. If true, that's so sad.

http://onlineathens.com/stories/0809...70809037.shtml

[dgdramadawg]

Originally Posted by ztafromuk

In other news, the Athens paper reported today that Delta Phi Epsilon is planning to temporarily disband, and sell their house back to the university. If true, that's so sad.

http://onlineathens.com/stories/0809...70809037.shtml

My heart goes out to those girls.

[UGATammy]

Originally Posted by ztafromuk

I was driving down Milledge this morning and had to brake for sorority members. Evidently the Delta Zetas ran across the street to Phi Mu and did a cheer? dropped off cookies? something? and I drove by just as the DZs were running back. I got so nostalgic for the days of choreographed welcome songs.

In other news, the Athens paper reported today that Delta Phi Epsilon is planning to temporarily disband, and sell their house back to the university. If true, that's so sad.

http://onlineathens.com/stories/0809...70809037.shtml

You are correct. My chapter (Psi) has closed and the house did get sold to the University. Thankfully, the University has given us an invitation to come back on campus in a few years. It's sad to see my chapter closed, but I know it's for the best at the time being. I wish the other chapters at UGA the best of luck tomorrow when they get their new members!!!

[TSteven]

Preference parties (up to three) are happening now (Noon to 4:30 p.m. ET) with Bid day events starting tomorrow at 2 p.m. ET.

Go Cats!

[cluelessUGAmom]

Originally Posted by UGATammy

You are correct. My chapter (Psi) has closed and the house did get sold to the University. Thankfully, the University has given us an invitation to come back on campus in a few years. It's sad to see my chapter closed, but I know it's for the best at the time being. I wish the other chapters at UGA the best of luck tomorrow when they get their new members!!!

Where do the girls go if the chapter is disbanding? Do they bid for other sororities?

[dgdramadawg]

Originally Posted by cluelessUGAmom

Where do the girls go if the chapter is disbanding? Do they bid for other sororities?

If one is a member of one NPC group, she cannot pledge another NPC group.

I'm sure that DPhiE has an alumnae group in the Athens area for these women. Is that right, Tammy?

[irishpipes]

Last weekend I was talking to the Vice Chancellor/Dean of Students at Arkansas. This is the first year they are deferring formal recruitment until September (the 2 weekends after Labor Day). He said the change was made because too many girls didn't get the chapters they wanted during recruitment and dropped out of school, so they were losing too many students. We hear about that kind of thing here on GC, but I admit it was strange to hear it coming from an administrator like that. I personally don't like the new schedule, but we'll see how it goes.

[SECMom]

Alabama did this for the first time in 2001, when my oldest went through and I thought it was ridiculous. The reason given was that it would promote racial diversity in the traditionally white sororities. Now that is a valid reason but I never understood how delaying rush would bring it about! They did it again the next year in 2003 a new president came in and put it back to the week before classes started, which, in my then humble opinion, was when rush was SUPPOSED to be anyway.

Well, Ole Miss has a delayed rush, reason being that girls who don't get what they want would drop out otherwise, and for some reason pertaining to the football schedule rush was delayed until the 2nd week of October last year.....after experiencing a TRULY delayed rush I have changed my mind. The 7 weeks she had to get settled, make friends in her dorm, meet some sorority girls, plus living with the notion that she had to be on her very best behavior turned out to be very good for her. We were dissecting Alabama's rush last night (some of our local girls are not very happy, both pnms and actives) and she made the comment that delayed recruitment made so much more sense. This year rush is the end of September and I find myself thinking that waiting another couple of weeks might be a good thing!

Just my 2 cents.

[SoMom]

Originally Posted by SECMom

The 7 weeks she had to get settled, make friends in her dorm, meet some sorority girls, plus living with the notion that she had to be on her very best behavior turned out to be very good for her.

SECMom, I agree! My daughter was disappointed that Rush did not take place before Homecoming last year but I think it was a good thing to experience some of the college experience before pledging. I also wondered if it wasn't better for those (few) girls who arrive at Ole Miss having not sent (m)any recs - those few weeks give them opportunity to learn more about Rush and get 'things' together. (Of course, the hard part was the fact that they have to juggle classes while rushing... but they seem to handle it fine.)
In the long term, those few weeks are minimal.

A Southern Mom